Wait--you need to remortage your house for three grand? What is that, one month's salary? Two? If you've got a real job and a house, you can probably afford to keep your skills up to par in your field
God, you Americans have so much money it's unbelievable and a desecration of "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbours' possessions" right next to "Thou shalt not kill". In other countries we have nowhere near as much money so we have to pirate everything
Read my sig. I'm a Christian, so as a matter of faith I have no real privacy.;)
Then why does every church have a private confession box? Everyone should just stand up in Church on sunday and shout their confession out loud. Ah heck, "I hereby certify Slashdot as a designated Christian confession area". There, now confess to me in your Reply
It's obscenely easy to not have a MS license, and every six months it becomes easier and easier to do so. Buy a Mac. Buy a Linux Box. Hell, don't use a PC at all--MS won't mind, and even if they did there's nothing that they can do about it
Trash. I've never used Micro$oft Developer Studio.NET, but somehow my employer requires that I *magically* learn it or get fired! And guess what - it costs $3,000 which I'd have to remortgage my house to buy... There are no.NET systems at work - but guess what - they don't give a damn, with so many software engineers out of work I can be replaced in a second by a guy who *is* willing to take a chance by learning using illegally(?) obtained software. When there's a large number of unemployed software developers, game theory dictates that the guy who breaks the law without going to jail wins. Man, no wonder people are running around with sniper rifles shooting people.
It's obscenely easy to not have a MS license, and every six months it becomes easier and easier to do so. Buy a Mac. Buy a Linux Box. Hell, don't use a PC at all--MS won't mind, and even if they did there's nothing that they can do about it.
Yeah, don't use a phone, and don't use electricity. What do you think maturing IT means? I say it's a PC or other Internet-connected browsing machine becoming as critical as a phone.
All calls will be recorded and kept for 100 years that go over AT&T's network, such data may be used against you in a court of law. How's that, still comfortable?
f MS has reasonable suspicious that you're committing the crime of copyright infringment with their work, they can get a search warrant for you, get evidence, and then charge you. The fact that they don't because you're too small scale to matter is irrelevant, legally speaking
WindowsXP and OfficeXP calls Micro$oft every now and again for activation so M$ can collect evidence on every household. Now instead of sending in the police and getting search warrants, M$ can just blackmail me and all Seators, eh voila, they're running the country without the need for a Nazi police force!
Funny you say that; you can't use a computer without some kind of license. Even GPL'd software is "licensed" for you to use. (Sure, it's a free, nonrestricve license, but it's still there.) It's just a differnet meaning of "license" than "driver's license."
For cars you need to use public roads, so you need a licence. For a computer located inside my own personal house, what can Micro$oft do, storm my house? Hey I know some people living opposite me that are suspicious for some reason - why not storm their house? Actually I think there's illegal(?) software in everybody's house, so you better go search every house in the United States, and kill every Jew and OSS developer while you're at it why not.
Not officially of course, Micro$oft has the world's top accountants that can covertly funnel the money to Micro$oft stormtroopers (Stallman-bashers especially). Take your facist Micro$oft licenced state and shove it. I am NOT a MCC (Micro$oft Certified Citizen) so whatcha gonna do - take away my rights and then throw me in a Micro$oft Goulag (prison service outsourced to Russia, software service to India)?
Hitler also tried to penalise non-Micro$oft/Jewish/whatever citizens.
personal-level licenes are "click through" or "agree on use". Claims of ignorance will stand up about as well as a claim to not understanding basic property rights or traffic codes--you could claim to not understand them, but you'd likely wind up examined by a pscyhiatrist, and either found to be lying or deamed legally incompetent
If I've never taken a driving test in my life and was truant during Drivers' Ed, then what would I be guilty of if I have an accident? Let me answer that question - driving without insurance, and driving without a licence is illegal, and a Somalian refugee who's just arrived in the US is no exception to this rule (somehow!!).
Do you propose a software ed, and you can't use a computer without a licence?
Even if MS successfully changed their EULAs to read like what you stated, news would get out within a month, and MS would either change or die rather quickly.
Trash, has CNN reported that Osama binLaden donated $50million to charity? Noooooooo! Therefore the press is biased and deliberately glosses over megacorporate malfeasance. Plus DRM and stuff is in their favour, so the press won't report abuses in this area. Come on - has anybody on CNN talked about peoples' rights to play and rip whatever music they want - timeshifting and spatial shifting? Nooooooo!
Hollywood has two states - 1) maximise revenue, and 2) price according to peoples' tolerance. Government has two states - 1) Loose, and 2) Restrict Hollywood
Does Hollywood co-operate with the peoples' request and risk 2-2 in the next round anyway, or does Hollywood maximise their prices (1-1) and risk the next round becoming a 2-2?
Billions of dollars have been lost (or should I say stolen) from American companies because of chinese piracy
So that Anna Nicole Smith can't get a raise, Micheal Jackson can't get a new Wonderland, Austin Powers can't get $35mil instead of 30mil, and EMI can't pay it's fat bosses $100mil bonus. Yeah
That's because the majority of the Indian viewing public is illiterate, and can only uderstand mindless songs. Joe sixpack in India is a rice farmer who's never been to school and is repressed by his Brahmin ruler.
The intellectual elite in India is only 10% of the population (90 million) and they learn calculus at the age of 6. They can whip the pants of Einstein at the age of 10, they work harder than the Japanese! That's why there's so many H-1Bs
The movies that this Indian elite watches are beyond the ability of the majority of Americans to understand.
This is because the Hindu religion is licensed LGPL and is continuously extended even today, unlike the Bible and Koran which are proprietary and locked by "change one word of the Bible and Satan will consume you" Revelations and "Mohammed is the last prophet, kill whoever modifies even a semicolon in the Koran" various Imams. These caveats caused problems when the Bible and Koran were translated into English.
If they only enforce the laws for domestic films, then what is going to stop the average Chinaman from going to pirate an American movie instead?
And who are you to say that, God? Money paid for imported intellectual property is a drain on the Chinese exchequer, in exchange for the Chinese getting what exactly?
The US military will have to threaten war before the Chinese will even consider protecting foreign films. Remember these people run over students with tanks at Tianeman Square, do you think they give a damn about pirating from some Hollywood Director who'll turn around and tell everyone that Chinese products are inferior and cheap?
Yeah just go down the projects and talk to normal people "Yip diddley dee darn here, looky here at the new PeeeCeee. It's got a bright screen n everythang yeeeehaaaa".
Unless 2 people are present when the T&Cond is given, I can always tell the Judge that the guy physically assaulted me and signed it himself and/or forced me to sign under threat of my life. Or I can deny that I signed it.
Micro$oft should try this: Microsoft EULA 1. You hereby allow Micro$oft herein forthwith to rape your children and take your house away from you to use our software 2. At Micro$oft's discretion, you hereby allow Micro$oft to seize your house, and Bill Gates to take your wife for her own at his own whim. 3. You hereby sign over all your possessions and money to Micro$oft (including any money you have in Bank accounts and stored in 401k)
So would this be enforcable in law, eh? Everyone gonna lose their houses now, eh?
It would be rather farcical to try and claim that you did not know that Microsoft uses EULAs to sell a license to make copies of their software for use.
Joe sixpack doesn't read Slashdot, and doesn't have to sign or agree to anything when he buys a box of software/CD/Hershey from a store
It's written on the box,
Joe sixpack shops at night
talked about on slashdot,
No Joe sixpack on Slashdot
and even mentioned in the "about" box of every single MS windows app;
Joe sixpack doesn't even understand what "clippy" does, he also doesn't know why he should save documents. "Dude, I switch my computer off and the Word documents disappear" "Yeah, try saving it next time," "Uhhhhhh, say what?"
some even include the EULA online
So it's illegal not to read Micro$oft's website? And then my cat walks on the keyboard
No. You are bound ONLY by the terms of the EULA that shows up when the software is installed (or that's included with the box when you buy your computer.)
My dog tore up the software box, and only the CD remained, whilst I was installing it a screen came up but my cat jumped on the keyboard and pressed the Enter key.
I had no idea there was a EULA, I keep having bad luck whenever I try to install software. So what is a OOOLAAAA? Is it illegal to let my dog play with my keyboard? Is it illegal for me to feed my dog? Is it illegal for me to turn my back on my dog whilst a software box is in front of him?
Bi-weekly (mini) code reviews and constant interaction are important to prevent bad code from affecting a codebase in any language
Sometimes he has to tell me which language he's coding in, it's that bad.
I've been lucky; I have been given the power to eliminate lousy coders who won't at least try to maintain some semblance of good coding methods
You don't know how lucky you are. Guess what - due to the recession the software company I work for is diversifying into catering. That's gonna be interesting, having hot food prepared at the other end of this room while we sit here and code. Actually it's possible that'll be torture for us, hmmmmmm.... I wonder if that's happening to lots of companies these days - turning to completely different products. Instead of cooking up Perl/Java, I can cook up a Chow Mein.
use -wT from the start, eliminating the warnings as you go. I've got perl scripts thousands of lines long, across multiple files and modules, all with use strict and -wT. Not a single warning. Discipline, it's what I stated from the start.
Bullshit. Complete and utter bullshit. You don't inherit 9M-LOC of Perl and THEN put -wT on it, you start with 10 LOC and use -wT from the start, eliminating the warnings as you go
If there were more people like us during the dot-com boom, it might still be going. Ah well, it's all about team efforts nowadays, using Bridge software architecture methodology and all that. When coding Perl as part of a large team, there's always one that hacks out his code so poorly that his code works only on Fridays, and when the Environment table is deleted, and with glibc-0.0.12 because he calls the C API directly which buffer overflows somewhere. -wT and use strict were forgotten long ago. How can I integrate his code into the project? In team coding, it all falls to the lowest common denominator - the sloppiest coder, and thanks to corporate-wide hiring freezes while the CEO plays golf until the recession is over, he's irreplacable. Nice.
So do you turn on use strict and -wT, or do you decide not to grovel to your boss and install the unstable script? Afterwards, you can blame Perl and recommend switching to PHP. Explains a lot, eh?
Perl was a natural fit for their needs, and the obvious choice.
Migrating languages is a good reason to keep your job, so shut up and don't get these Y! coders fired. They'll migrate to Perl after 3 years when they realise PHP's not ideal. Don't make a big deal of this.
This is exactly why planned obsolescence is required in software.
The script runs until the error appears, that's the problem. If you're writing to a logfile, or multiple synchronised files (e.g. writing to a flat-file with a seperate hash index file) and your Perl script hits an invalid variable after writing to one file but before writing to the other, then you have an inconsistency on disk (BAD!). With C++ this would be caught at compile-time
The use of -wT only works in the smallest scripts. A 9 milLOC script would generate thousands of warnings, tempting you to ignore them, which makes the first argument doubly important as now you have to port the entire script to a compilable language like C++ or Java.
Personally I usually go with Postgres for any app with a lot of concurrent writes, like most of the web stuff I do (seems to handle it better than MySQL).
Btw, it's not always true that Oracle > MySQL; I remember doing a rather simple app where I had to do simple manipulations on several dozen million of simple records - MySQL beat the pants off Oracle performance-wise
To make it scale well, Oracle does stuff slower than something like MySQL when using very few processors.
I also often see MySQL being applied to situations where it seems to be overkill, where simple flat files would do just fine
Pull the power cord in the middle of a write to a flat-file and see what happens (unless you have ext3 with full data+metadata journalling).
I'm simply curious - for most jobs that MySQL is used for, there are better
Why don't you use Oracle on a 128-way Unix server with custom-compiled super-fine-grained locking kernel and NUMA/Beowulf/...? Yeah, there are slower systems with less CPUs and a more standard kernel but hey why not get the best?
probably because the average computer user with some sense of programming can figure out php
Ahhhh, you touch on a fascinating fundamental concept. McDonalds used to be an expensive restaurant using skilled chefs in the '50s, then they simplified their products so that a production line consisting of a large number of unskilled workers (not chefs) could make the food. Obviously they were succesful.
In parallel, PERL requires expert coders to code and maintain an 8milLOC PERL script. Perhaps PHP by simplification and syntax-enforcement requires more LOC, but this improvement allows a large number of semi-skilled MCSEs to maintain the script. This should decrease the maintenance cost, but will result in some redundant Perl gurus.
Furthermore, strong typing doesn't help you write better algorithms.
Just because you don't like compile errors doesn't mean that you should ignore them.
Coming from a strong C background, I see no problems with typecasting away to different data types as I see fit.
Then shut up and write drivers like you're supposed to, at 10milLOC trust me, compile errors are a GOOD THING! The alternative is a rare runtime error when you enter seldom-used code sections (remember programs spend 90% of time in 20% of code, so 80% of your code is effectively untested for runtime ERRs)
Of course, you have the opportunity to shoot yourself in the foot, but that's one of the risks you take when you carry a gun instead of a textbook
In team programming, the difference is that other programmers shoot you in *your* foot
PHP-Nuke? No thanks... PostNuke [postnuke.com] (a PHP-Nuke fork) is far superior - instead of one developer, it's an OSS project... lots of features and less bugs than the original
These guys at PostNuke don't seem to agree that PostNuke is very good. Random malfunctions? Degradation over time? Just because it's OSS doesn't mean it's good - if Alan Cox or Torvalds was coding it then maybe, but let's face it - an Ethiopean kid getting shot at can write OSS in one line of Perl and call it whatever he likes.
Slashdot Mirror
Ah heck, "I hereby certify Slashdot as a designated Christian confession area". There, now confess to me in your Reply
All calls will be recorded and kept for 100 years that go over AT&T's network, such data may be used against you in a court of law. How's that, still comfortable?
WindowsXP and OfficeXP calls Micro$oft every now and again for activation so M$ can collect evidence on every household. Now instead of sending in the police and getting search warrants, M$ can just blackmail me and all Seators, eh voila, they're running the country without the need for a Nazi police force!Not officially of course, Micro$oft has the world's top accountants that can covertly funnel the money to Micro$oft stormtroopers (Stallman-bashers especially). Take your facist Micro$oft licenced state and shove it. I am NOT a MCC (Micro$oft Certified Citizen) so whatcha gonna do - take away my rights and then throw me in a Micro$oft Goulag (prison service outsourced to Russia, software service to India)?
Hitler also tried to penalise non-Micro$oft/Jewish/whatever citizens.
Let me answer that question - driving without insurance, and driving without a licence is illegal, and a Somalian refugee who's just arrived in the US is no exception to this rule (somehow!!).
Do you propose a software ed, and you can't use a computer without a licence?
Trash, has CNN reported that Osama binLaden donated $50million to charity? Noooooooo! Therefore the press is biased and deliberately glosses over megacorporate malfeasance. Plus DRM and stuff is in their favour, so the press won't report abuses in this area. Come on - has anybody on CNN talked about peoples' rights to play and rip whatever music they want - timeshifting and spatial shifting? Nooooooo!Hollywood has two states - 1) maximise revenue, and 2) price according to peoples' tolerance.
Government has two states - 1) Loose, and 2) Restrict Hollywood
Does Hollywood co-operate with the peoples' request and risk 2-2 in the next round anyway, or does Hollywood maximise their prices (1-1) and risk the next round becoming a 2-2?
The intellectual elite in India is only 10% of the population (90 million) and they learn calculus at the age of 6. They can whip the pants of Einstein at the age of 10, they work harder than the Japanese! That's why there's so many H-1Bs
The movies that this Indian elite watches are beyond the ability of the majority of Americans to understand.
This is because the Hindu religion is licensed LGPL and is continuously extended even today, unlike the Bible and Koran which are proprietary and locked by "change one word of the Bible and Satan will consume you" Revelations and "Mohammed is the last prophet, kill whoever modifies even a semicolon in the Koran" various Imams. These caveats caused problems when the Bible and Koran were translated into English.
The US military will have to threaten war before the Chinese will even consider protecting foreign films. Remember these people run over students with tanks at Tianeman Square, do you think they give a damn about pirating from some Hollywood Director who'll turn around and tell everyone that Chinese products are inferior and cheap?
Unless 2 people are present when the T&Cond is given, I can always tell the Judge that the guy physically assaulted me and signed it himself and/or forced me to sign under threat of my life. Or I can deny that I signed it.
Micro$oft should try this:
Microsoft EULA
1. You hereby allow Micro$oft herein forthwith to rape your children and take your house away from you to use our software
2. At Micro$oft's discretion, you hereby allow Micro$oft to seize your house, and Bill Gates to take your wife for her own at his own whim.
3. You hereby sign over all your possessions and money to Micro$oft (including any money you have in Bank accounts and stored in 401k)
So would this be enforcable in law, eh? Everyone gonna lose their houses now, eh?
"Dude, I switch my computer off and the Word documents disappear"
"Yeah, try saving it next time,"
"Uhhhhhh, say what?"So it's illegal not to read Micro$oft's website? And then my cat walks on the keyboard
I had no idea there was a EULA, I keep having bad luck whenever I try to install software. So what is a OOOLAAAA? Is it illegal to let my dog play with my keyboard? Is it illegal for me to feed my dog? Is it illegal for me to turn my back on my dog whilst a software box is in front of him?
Well, the large corporations have more money than most of the world's countries put together so let's all hand over our power to them yipee!
So do you turn on use strict and -wT, or do you decide not to grovel to your boss and install the unstable script? Afterwards, you can blame Perl and recommend switching to PHP. Explains a lot, eh?
This is exactly why planned obsolescence is required in software.
The use of -wT only works in the smallest scripts. A 9 milLOC script would generate thousands of warnings, tempting you to ignore them, which makes the first argument doubly important as now you have to port the entire script to a compilable language like C++ or Java.
In parallel, PERL requires expert coders to code and maintain an 8milLOC PERL script. Perhaps PHP by simplification and syntax-enforcement requires more LOC, but this improvement allows a large number of semi-skilled MCSEs to maintain the script. This should decrease the maintenance cost, but will result in some redundant Perl gurus.
I tell you what - format your machine code freely and I'll not complain, but your CPU will (in an abstract sense).