I've never seen a company face lawsuits only for losing stock value. The law suit against Red Hat and VA Linux for example, alleged misconduct for the way their IPO was carried out. You can't get sued for losing a lot of money, you get sued for defrauding people.
I think it's the examples they use. They don't pick some abstract boring problem to demonstrate the concept, they show the code in an app that is similar to something in the real world, so you can see how it looks in practice, rather than just showing the general case in mathematical terms. Sometimes it is easier to learn a specific case before you learn the general case, since the more abstract general case is harder to grasp without some idea of how one would use it in practice.
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You could take that a step further, and say integrate an AI "friend" with your applications. It could say stuff like "Hey, It looks like you are trying to print a document, but you keep screwing up, let me help". You could even make the AI non-threatning looking, something like a little paper clip. Revolutionary!
For some background on the coming technological singularity, and some general good reading, see The Meaning Of Life
For a while this was the link Jeeves gave you if you asked him the meaning of life, it was the only useful thing I ever found using that search engine.
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I've never seen a company face lawsuits only for losing stock value. The law suit against Red Hat and VA Linux for example, alleged misconduct for the way their IPO was carried out. You can't get sued for losing a lot of money, you get sued for defrauding people.
That's why you use a package manager.
If you use rpm, then use checkinstall, it will generate rpms out of tar.gz easily, you run it instead of "make install"
How the fuck can you illegally use an EULA database?
I think it's the examples they use. They don't pick some abstract boring problem to demonstrate the concept, they show the code in an app that is similar to something in the real world, so you can see how it looks in practice, rather than just showing the general case in mathematical terms. Sometimes it is easier to learn a specific case before you learn the general case, since the more abstract general case is harder to grasp without some idea of how one would use it in practice.
You could take that a step further, and say integrate an AI "friend" with your applications. It could say stuff like "Hey, It looks like you are trying to print a document, but you keep screwing up, let me help". You could even make the AI non-threatning looking, something like a little paper clip. Revolutionary!
For some background on the coming technological singularity, and some general good reading, see The Meaning Of Life
For a while this was the link Jeeves gave you if you asked him the meaning of life, it was the only useful thing I ever found using that search engine.