Don't get pissed, he's one of those guys whose only use is to write reviews about some game since he can't produce anything of substance or do anything of value. It's the classic "Comic Book Guy" waste of life and self-indulgence.
Regarding the article from the UK. I don't know how it works there (US-ian here) but in the US a traffic summons doesn't mean you're guilty. If you read further you'd notice this probably looked worse for police that for the motorist who supposedly broke the "Public Order Act" (anyone have any info on this?). The school's headmaster slammed cops for failing to react quickly enough when a staff member was battered by hoodie thugs who gatecrashed an exam.
As for the second link in AZ, US; you should read your own article, friend: Police in Scottsdale, Arizona have arrested Matthew Cain, 20, for allegedly speeding after he made obscene gestures toward a speed camera...Cain's 1971 Oldsmobile convertible was traveling 82 MPH in a 45 MPH zone. He was arrested for speeding and horrendous disregard for safety. Sucks to be him.
But my point is, flipping the bird essentially means fuck you. And cursing someone out can be considered harassment
I don't believe that's true. It's Freedom of Speech, in my opinion. What kind of world do we live in where flipping the bird or dropping the F-bomb is automatically disturbing the peace or harassment? I agree to a certain extent that it can in extreme situations, but not in this case.
Not a bad idea, what's the difference if it was another person instead? I'd figure most would flip off the camera anyway...not like that's a crime. Doubt they'll summon the police to fine you for dropping a cup on the floor though I have to admit I'd like to see the people who do get embarrassed for doing something b/c they know better.
This 1984 comparison's much more useful for other more infuriating examples, like a national ID.
Damn straight. This guy is a damn genius or just really lucky. Either way, he made that money fair and square in my opinion (after taxes withheld by the sticky-fingered state of course). And he made it off of dumbasses who have too much of it. Exactly the way it should be. There's one born every minute indeed.
You're right, that is another way of looking at it. The point is the copyright holder is the only one with the right to make such a decision to share their work, not you and your friend.
The original dispute was whether violating copyright was stealing. The extreme scenario was not meant to be a dishonest mechanism to say that you couldn't take it further such as commissioned works as you describe. As an aside, a future where the only music is that commissioned by movie moguls and television producers seems terrible.
I agree we have the problem of semantics, to me copyright infringement is a form of stealing. Whether it sounds worse that "copyright infringement" or not is irrelevant.
I disagree that your crane is implicitly copyrighted since I don't think it would be considered an "original work of authorship".
I appreciate your analogy, but I don't agree. One reason, as dopey as it sounds, is that your paper crane is not copyrighted, that music is.
Or I can go a different route and argue that you're not stealing something tangible such as a pattern of bits that is a song, but you are stealing a potential customer from the artist to whom they'd be able to sell their song. Let's go to the extreme.
If we decided to pass a law that it is not a crime to copy songs if you haven't bought them, and I can copy music without any worry of violating the law, I can't in good conscience convince myself that selling music would be profitable. Even with scarcity of artists following this crash, you can't really argue that the good old law of supply-demand will keep the music going in this case.
However, I do agree that there needs to be a balance of fair use such as being able to play music at a block party or make as many copies as I want on different mediums so that I can play my favorite music on my ipod, in my car, etc.
Flash technology seems promising and looks poised to take over devices that would be better off using solid state components (laptops, etc) that traditionally don't. I've wanted to invest in Samsung and flash technology in general. Samsung seems to only be on the Asian markets, is this so? Does anyone know of and good mutual funds/ETFs that allows one to invest in this specific tech sector?
The Silmarillion was a fantastic compilation of Tolkien's cosmology/myth. I'll even go as far to say that I enjoyed the Silmarillion more than The Lord of the Rings.
so since these are the only two money makers for Microsoft, the rest of their 'diverse involments' lose money hand over fist. If Microsoft were to be harmed in either of these two markets then it would be a severe blow.
You mean like the fact that, currenty, virtually Google's entire revenue is based upon their pay-per-click business model?
Microsoft Games must be doing pretty well. And XBox 360, like the XBox, will come back to eventually bring those business units into the black.
"losing money hand over fist", eh? Remember our little talk about elaborating our reasoning? By the way, sorry I insulted your intellignece by misspelling "involvement". Happy?
If we're lucky, we can all see the fiery explosion that will be the downfall of M$.
Where do you guys come from with all this venom and FUD? God, complete with a $. Your type really seem to think so much alike that I'd swear every one of you are the same person. It's so ironic, it's sad.
Anyway, getting to the point: Maybe I agree or disagree but you should provide some reasoning along with a statement.
Let me try: I don't think there is an alliance, and even Google and Apple together are not going to just "crush" Microsoft. MS' sheer size, marketshare along with its diverse involments in many more markets that Google nd Apple combined coupled with its admittedly dubious business practices are going to ensure they'll be around a *long* time.
1) He hasn't had to reverse a linked list in 23 years.
Irrelevant, it's a basic problem.
2) There are framework functions to reverse a linked list. Who cares how they work.
See (1), it demonstrates problem-solving skills and it's not an unreasonable problem to solve. It may be insulting if you think they think you're that much of a dolt that it'd be challenging. But otherwise it's not hard at all if they give you enough time.
And let's say it is in that framework: you need to understand linked lists anyways if your problem uses lists that needs to be searched, you would know that using the list would be unwise.
And say you do "Google it". How do you verify that the code is correct? "oops this is code to reverse a circular linked list...ummmm."
I agree that you should probably not insult the guy's intelligence with such a question, or asking hm the question and giving a gameshow time limit.
And inane questions too. I had some guy ask me "what data structure would you use in designing a database application?" You just have to be gracious, don't act snobby, and "suck it up" like someone said. Joke about it later with his co-workers;)
You know, your low user ID would imply you've been around a while, but you totally missed the point. The base 2 is not the only problem and you don't need to switch and/or use BCD to avoid these problems. Read the article again (or for the first time) and if you still don't get it look up "decimal" or "fixed-point" types in your favorite strongly-type programming language.
A fixed-point (or "decimal" types). see decimal in c#, BigInteger in Java, money/dec in SQL server, etc. Pay attention, and please tell me youre still in high school.
For example: You can't use float or double to store the numerical result of a 160-bit SHA-1 hash... you have to use the full 160 bits. (Duh, right?)
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I don't get it...why would you even try, what's the point of mentioning something so obvious? It's like me saying: "Hey don't even try storing your new titanium, five-iron in your asshole: since your rectum is only a few inches wide and a five-iron is over a meter long!"
This happens more often than you might think. I used to work for a large American software corp. One of their products which I had the pleasure of being on one of two teams who were working on it, had an accounting portion that used floating point columns in our DB schema and in code. I just was kind of disgusted and a little disturbed after finding this software's used by some pretty large organizations to track assets, etc.
This reminds me of something someone I knew said once: you don't really have to be intelligent to work in this industry or even get through school, just like everything else in life, it seems that brute force is enought to win most of the time.
I don't think you understand garbage collection, let alone Java, well enough to make a cogent argument.
Let's start with the admitted fact that the *basic* allocator in the Sun JVM requires on the order of twice the allocated heap space. But the idea is that the unused half will be paged out by the OS even though the perceived memory usage doesn't reflect that. In addition, the same reasoning is applied to the often cited "problem" that the Sun JVM heap never sshrinks.
Not to mention that you can add on top of this the fact that allocation in Java has almost no overhead because of this scheme.
In short: stop waving your "That's why my desktop (linux, woooo) is Java-free! Yay!" flag, if you don't know the first thing. Which nobody would really mind if you came up with an actual technical reason besides the fallacy of percieved memory consumption.
Right, just drop a customer? Word of mouth may get around depending on your business. Besides why would you preemptively drop the customer?? At least lose the customer trying to solve their complaint. Unless it costs you a ridiculous number of man hours or their complaint is about something that you said you cannot support, there's no point to dumping the guy. Even so, politely tell them it'll be in the next version or the real reasons you can not do what's needed.
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Don't get pissed, he's one of those guys whose only use is to write reviews about some game since he can't produce anything of substance or do anything of value. It's the classic "Comic Book Guy" waste of life and self-indulgence.
Regarding the article from the UK. I don't know how it works there (US-ian here) but in the US a traffic summons doesn't mean you're guilty. If you read further you'd notice this probably looked worse for police that for the motorist who supposedly broke the "Public Order Act" (anyone have any info on this?). The school's headmaster slammed cops for failing to react quickly enough when a staff member was battered by hoodie thugs who gatecrashed an exam.
As for the second link in AZ, US; you should read your own article, friend: Police in Scottsdale, Arizona have arrested Matthew Cain, 20, for allegedly speeding after he made obscene gestures toward a speed camera...Cain's 1971 Oldsmobile convertible was traveling 82 MPH in a 45 MPH zone. He was arrested for speeding and horrendous disregard for safety. Sucks to be him.
But my point is, flipping the bird essentially means fuck you. And cursing someone out can be considered harassment
I don't believe that's true. It's Freedom of Speech, in my opinion. What kind of world do we live in where flipping the bird or dropping the F-bomb is automatically disturbing the peace or harassment? I agree to a certain extent that it can in extreme situations, but not in this case.
Not a bad idea, what's the difference if it was another person instead? I'd figure most would flip off the camera anyway...not like that's a crime. Doubt they'll summon the police to fine you for dropping a cup on the floor though I have to admit I'd like to see the people who do get embarrassed for doing something b/c they know better.
This 1984 comparison's much more useful for other more infuriating examples, like a national ID.
Damn straight. This guy is a damn genius or just really lucky. Either way, he made that money fair and square in my opinion (after taxes withheld by the sticky-fingered state of course). And he made it off of dumbasses who have too much of it. Exactly the way it should be. There's one born every minute indeed.
After all pointers and garbage collection are for Pascal and ANSI C programmers
Hey, here's a fun fact: did you know that pointer manipulation precludes many meaningful dynamic and static compiler optimizations?
I'm also guessing that you made a typo and know that GC is not in C.
Java helps coddle the intellectually challenged that don't even know what pointers and garbage collection are used for anyway
GC is not hard to grasp for anyone. The fact that you think it is ironically tells volumes about your intellectual prowess, in my opinion.
You're right, that is another way of looking at it. The point is the copyright holder is the only one with the right to make such a decision to share their work, not you and your friend.
The original dispute was whether violating copyright was stealing. The extreme scenario was not meant to be a dishonest mechanism to say that you couldn't take it further such as commissioned works as you describe. As an aside, a future where the only music is that commissioned by movie moguls and television producers seems terrible.
I agree we have the problem of semantics, to me copyright infringement is a form of stealing. Whether it sounds worse that "copyright infringement" or not is irrelevant.
I disagree that your crane is implicitly copyrighted since I don't think it would be considered an "original work of authorship".
I appreciate your analogy, but I don't agree. One reason, as dopey as it sounds, is that your paper crane is not copyrighted, that music is.
Or I can go a different route and argue that you're not stealing something tangible such as a pattern of bits that is a song, but you are stealing a potential customer from the artist to whom they'd be able to sell their song. Let's go to the extreme.
If we decided to pass a law that it is not a crime to copy songs if you haven't bought them, and I can copy music without any worry of violating the law, I can't in good conscience convince myself that selling music would be profitable. Even with scarcity of artists following this crash, you can't really argue that the good old law of supply-demand will keep the music going in this case.
However, I do agree that there needs to be a balance of fair use such as being able to play music at a block party or make as many copies as I want on different mediums so that I can play my favorite music on my ipod, in my car, etc.
Flash technology seems promising and looks poised to take over devices that would be better off using solid state components (laptops, etc) that traditionally don't. I've wanted to invest in Samsung and flash technology in general. Samsung seems to only be on the Asian markets, is this so? Does anyone know of and good mutual funds/ETFs that allows one to invest in this specific tech sector?
The fact that for the *other* person it's "there" now is the stealing part.
The Silmarillion was a fantastic compilation of Tolkien's cosmology/myth. I'll even go as far to say that I enjoyed the Silmarillion more than The Lord of the Rings.
so since these are the only two money makers for Microsoft, the rest of their 'diverse involments' lose money hand over fist. If Microsoft were to be harmed in either of these two markets then it would be a severe blow.
You mean like the fact that, currenty, virtually Google's entire revenue is based upon their pay-per-click business model?
Microsoft Games must be doing pretty well. And XBox 360, like the XBox, will come back to eventually bring those business units into the black.
"losing money hand over fist", eh? Remember our little talk about elaborating our reasoning? By the way, sorry I insulted your intellignece by misspelling "involvement". Happy?
If we're lucky, we can all see the fiery explosion that will be the downfall of M$.
Where do you guys come from with all this venom and FUD? God, complete with a $. Your type really seem to think so much alike that I'd swear every one of you are the same person. It's so ironic, it's sad.
Anyway, getting to the point: Maybe I agree or disagree but you should provide some reasoning along with a statement.
Let me try: I don't think there is an alliance, and even Google and Apple together are not going to just "crush" Microsoft. MS' sheer size, marketshare along with its diverse involments in many more markets that Google nd Apple combined coupled with its admittedly dubious business practices are going to ensure they'll be around a *long* time.
1) He hasn't had to reverse a linked list in 23 years.
;)
Irrelevant, it's a basic problem.
2) There are framework functions to reverse a linked list. Who cares how they work.
See (1), it demonstrates problem-solving skills and it's not an unreasonable problem to solve. It may be insulting if you think they think you're that much of a dolt that it'd be challenging. But otherwise it's not hard at all if they give you enough time.
And let's say it is in that framework: you need to understand linked lists anyways if your problem uses lists that needs to be searched, you would know that using the list would be unwise.
And say you do "Google it". How do you verify that the code is correct? "oops this is code to reverse a circular linked list...ummmm."
I agree that you should probably not insult the guy's intelligence with such a question, or asking hm the question and giving a gameshow time limit.
And inane questions too. I had some guy ask me "what data structure would you use in designing a database application?" You just have to be gracious, don't act snobby, and "suck it up" like someone said. Joke about it later with his co-workers
It seems i'm the only person who doesn't know what organization you're coyly hinting at. It's killing me...
You know, your low user ID would imply you've been around a while, but you totally missed the point. The base 2 is not the only problem and you don't need to switch and/or use BCD to avoid these problems. Read the article again (or for the first time) and if you still don't get it look up "decimal" or "fixed-point" types in your favorite strongly-type programming language.
A fixed-point (or "decimal" types). see decimal in c#, BigInteger in Java, money/dec in SQL server, etc. Pay attention, and please tell me youre still in high school.
For example: You can't use float or double to store the numerical result of a 160-bit SHA-1 hash... you have to use the full 160 bits. (Duh, right?)
?
I don't get it...why would you even try, what's the point of mentioning something so obvious? It's like me saying: "Hey don't even try storing your new titanium, five-iron in your asshole: since your rectum is only a few inches wide and a five-iron is over a meter long!"
This happens more often than you might think. I used to work for a large American software corp. One of their products which I had the pleasure of being on one of two teams who were working on it, had an accounting portion that used floating point columns in our DB schema and in code. I just was kind of disgusted and a little disturbed after finding this software's used by some pretty large organizations to track assets, etc.
This reminds me of something someone I knew said once: you don't really have to be intelligent to work in this industry or even get through school, just like everything else in life, it seems that brute force is enought to win most of the time.
I don't think you understand garbage collection, let alone Java, well enough to make a cogent argument.
Let's start with the admitted fact that the *basic* allocator in the Sun JVM requires on the order of twice the allocated heap space. But the idea is that the unused half will be paged out by the OS even though the perceived memory usage doesn't reflect that. In addition, the same reasoning is applied to the often cited "problem" that the Sun JVM heap never sshrinks.
Not to mention that you can add on top of this the fact that allocation in Java has almost no overhead because of this scheme.
In short: stop waving your "That's why my desktop (linux, woooo) is Java-free! Yay!" flag, if you don't know the first thing. Which nobody would really mind if you came up with an actual technical reason besides the fallacy of percieved memory consumption.
or threaten to track em down and rip their genitals off.
If it aint 3d, ppl think it's from te 90s. oh well. we need more 2d platformers *using* some 3d tech and effects.
Right, just drop a customer? Word of mouth may get around depending on your business. Besides why would you preemptively drop the customer?? At least lose the customer trying to solve their complaint. Unless it costs you a ridiculous number of man hours or their complaint is about something that you said you cannot support, there's no point to dumping the guy. Even so, politely tell them it'll be in the next version or the real reasons you can not do what's needed.