If they're making you pay $4 for CD-Rs because you're likely to pirate music, isn't that like charging $25 for you to enter an amusement park because you're likely to go on rides?
If you buy a CD-R, you've paid for music, and as such you should be allowed to copy it. If you let it be illegal, take away the tax and enforce it like any other law. Now the the music industry is having their cake and eating it too.
Are they complaining about a lack of test macs at Redmond, or they actually admitting that you need access to the underlying system to be competitive?
The latter is one of the things they've been saying isn't true in court, no?
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Exactly. Nothing helps innovation like the ability to conduct research knowing that with success or not, you still won't starve to death tomorrow. If you get half electrocuted during an experiment, you still get to keep your car after two weeks in a hospital. If you produce amazing breakthroughs in your field which won't lead to an actual product in 20 years, you can still call it a success.
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What's with the people going "yeah whatever, we won't get it here in the US anyways"! I don't mean to troll, but there is much, much more to the world than the USA.
If your own commercialism stops innovation from reaching consumers, vote democratic. Don't oppose taxes. Write letters to your local representatives.
Whining gets you nowhere, and it's just annoying for those of us who actually have a shot at using this technology.
I said we're arguably better educated. You argued with it. Thus it's not BS:)
But do note, I'm not complaining about the education itself. If you love CS and go for it, you can be equally good if you're in the Phillipines, Romania or the USA. If you don't love CS, and you're just in it for money, then you'll suck equally if you study in the Phillipines, Romania or the USA.
If there are investors with money in desperate need of CS people, wouldn't you have an incentive other than love and dedication to pursue this career? (like in the dotcom era)
Also, don't get math mixed up in it. Math you can teach with little more than a notebook and a pencil. Contests are no way to compare either, since you pick the best and brightest. There are good and bright people in all fields of study, the question is what percentage sucks.
PS: Don't imply that I'm from the USA, that hurts!
$5 organic free range eggs are still organic free range eggs, or westerners. The $10 eggs would translate to western programmers who demand fresh squeezed mango juice from specially trained monkeys as a benefit.
we work less, we're less dedicated and we demand more benefits
And we're arguably better educated.
The way I see it, it's like the dotcom webdesigners. When there's an easy way to make money, you get (or buy) a degree for the money's sake, and come out with the ability to create a web page. Of course, you make forms that won't submit without vbscript, your tags aren't closed, and your images don't have alt text, but the web page displays perfectly in IE!
Sure, some of them really learn their stuff and become genuinly good, but far too many would be in it just because they heard people say it was an easy way to make a few bucks.
I can't imagine this being less of a problem in a poorer country.
They don't make people violent, they make violent people active.
You should be a carpenter, you nailed that one perfectly.
If you're artisitic, a museum might inspire you. If you're intelligent, a math class might inspire you. If you're violent, a video game might inspire you.
How about VPN and networked disks? I've never run across a company that stores things on the local disk, except for when there's no connection in which case it's sent to a network share when it becomes available. If the data is really sensitive, you wouldn't even copy it on the laptop, you'd connect to hq using a cell phone or wifi and encrypt the traffic.
If the laptop was stolen and got wiped and disabled, you'd lose very little data and the thief wouldn't be able to use it.
My phone has this feature, but I always turn my phone off on flights. I know I am able to turn off the radio, but there are too many idiots out there who'll insist that "the radio's turned off!!" when it's really not (just think of all the people who claim their phone is in silent mode until it starts beeping Britanny Spears). If they'll take my word for it, they'll have to take everyone's.
Atleast until my plan of labeling all fools is successful.
without optimization on javac and gcc (the latter was slowed down by it so I figured it wouldn't be fair). Calculating up to 45 on my P3 800MHz took, according to 'time', 1m5.554s. Java used 0m51.807s (and that's including the jvm loading).
Pretty neat.
java -Xint (no JIT) is still running though.
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Nope. A science teacher of mine once presented this experiment:
Conclusion? Fresh water conducts electricity.
On an unrelated note, this teacher also did gymnastics.
PS: Brilliant post. Please accept this +1 Insightful pseudomod.
"if you want to have a PC" (yes, I took this english class!)
If you buy a CD-R, you've paid for music, and as such you should be allowed to copy it. If you let it be illegal, take away the tax and enforce it like any other law. Now the the music industry is having their cake and eating it too.
Ahh, so that's what the preview button is for?
Indeed. They're great for compiling java code!
(Sorry)
Two of them are even slashdot readers! Only problem is they're dating each other!
...but would it run linux?
(You all saw it coming!)
What's this SMB3 I keep hearing about? Will Samba implement it?
Are they complaining about a lack of test macs at Redmond, or they actually admitting that you need access to the underlying system to be competitive?
The latter is one of the things they've been saying isn't true in court, no?
Exactly. Nothing helps innovation like the ability to conduct research knowing that with success or not, you still won't starve to death tomorrow. If you get half electrocuted during an experiment, you still get to keep your car after two weeks in a hospital. If you produce amazing breakthroughs in your field which won't lead to an actual product in 20 years, you can still call it a success.
If your own commercialism stops innovation from reaching consumers, vote democratic. Don't oppose taxes. Write letters to your local representatives.
Whining gets you nowhere, and it's just annoying for those of us who actually have a shot at using this technology.
Not to mention that the extra fraction of a percent probably is a hundred million dollars.
What site?
But do note, I'm not complaining about the education itself. If you love CS and go for it, you can be equally good if you're in the Phillipines, Romania or the USA. If you don't love CS, and you're just in it for money, then you'll suck equally if you study in the Phillipines, Romania or the USA.
If there are investors with money in desperate need of CS people, wouldn't you have an incentive other than love and dedication to pursue this career? (like in the dotcom era)
Also, don't get math mixed up in it. Math you can teach with little more than a notebook and a pencil. Contests are no way to compare either, since you pick the best and brightest. There are good and bright people in all fields of study, the question is what percentage sucks.
PS: Don't imply that I'm from the USA, that hurts!
Face it, we're beaten.
we work less, we're less dedicated and we demand more benefits
And we're arguably better educated.
The way I see it, it's like the dotcom webdesigners. When there's an easy way to make money, you get (or buy) a degree for the money's sake, and come out with the ability to create a web page. Of course, you make forms that won't submit without vbscript, your tags aren't closed, and your images don't have alt text, but the web page displays perfectly in IE!
Sure, some of them really learn their stuff and become genuinly good, but far too many would be in it just because they heard people say it was an easy way to make a few bucks.
I can't imagine this being less of a problem in a poorer country.
Organic eggs from free range chickens cost more. I still buy them.
You should be a carpenter, you nailed that one perfectly.
If you're artisitic, a museum might inspire you. If you're intelligent, a math class might inspire you. If you're violent, a video game might inspire you.
If the laptop was stolen and got wiped and disabled, you'd lose very little data and the thief wouldn't be able to use it.
My ISP saves money by having the cafeteria staff double as tech support.
Then why aren't you buying twenties if they're $24?
But the sad part is, I didn't even have to look it up.
Atleast until my plan of labeling all fools is successful.
Eh? Like the Clinton thing?
I tried the simple and stupid
int fib(int i) {
if(i<=2) return 1;
else return fib(i-1)+fib(i-2);
}
without optimization on javac and gcc (the latter was slowed down by it so I figured it wouldn't be fair). Calculating up to 45 on my P3 800MHz took, according to 'time', 1m5.554s. Java used 0m51.807s (and that's including the jvm loading).
Pretty neat.
java -Xint (no JIT) is still running though.