>The victim has no part in the criminal justice system... they're too biased.
Would a load of hippy cr@p. The victim has EVERY part to be involved. THEY were the one who suffered, not the rest of society , THEM. Understand? God almighty I despair when I hear people like you , you're type are the reason the current UK criminal system is a mess because bleeding hearts bend over backwards to do empathise with the criminal instead of their victim. You make me sick.
>And your knee jerk troll response is positive in what way?
How typical. Your post was obviously an amazing flag waving piece of OSS intellectualism , yet mine, because I disagreed with you was a troll. Grow up.
>As for the real world, apparently you missed working in it.
Actually I suspect I've been working in it somewhat longer than you sonny, and if you really think an individual or business who has enough on their hands running day to day operations in the sphere they're in are really going to start hacking browsers then you really need to book a ticket for the next cluetrain.
>but there was nothing to stop you taking the code & fixing it yourself, or paying a >programmer to do it for you.
Its stupid comments like that that give OSS a bad name. Perhaps he's running a business full time and hasn't got the time/ability to fix it himself or the money to pay someone. Come down out of Geek Cuckoo Land and smell the real world.
>Which is fine, but such a definition of "innovation" that nothing can meet isn't very useful.
Innovation is something new. Buy a dictionary. If its been done before its not new hence not innovative. This isn't a complex concept to grasp for chrissake.
Can't say I've noticed much innovation in Nintendos kit to be honest either. Gamecube, N64? Where was the innovation in them? And then there's the software. Who wants to lay money on "Wii Sports" actually being "Marios Egg and Spoon Racing Challenge" or similar childish junk that this company consistently dredges up for its console launches? Conveniently forgetting that these days the people who buy consoles are not 12 years old. Perhaps in japan 20-somethings are still into cartoons (Manga anyone?) but in the west we generally want something a bit more adult, and Nintendo rarely deliver on that initially if at all.
Can't say I've noticed much innovation in Nintendos kit recently either to be honest. Certainly the launch software seems to be endless pre-teen drivel with the occasional "adult" game title thrown in as a bone to the people who actually have the money to spend. If its true then a sports title would be a change for Nintendo but it wouldn't surprise me if its actually something like "Marios Egg and Spoon Racing challenge" or similar childish junk.
Williams Defender - best adrenaline rush ever devised for a CRT screen. Nothing since has even come close. You don't need another 4 games to add to a best ever list , this game is enough on its own.
>With attitudes like that, it's no wonder programming jobs are being exported. If you want to keep ?>getting paid for hammering in nails, don't ignore someone suggesting a better hammer.
Oh fantastic , a high level games programming language (presumably for those who can't master C or assembler). I'll have to suggest it to my boss next time we need to write some trivial market access program that has to run 24/7/365 and process a few million trades an hour.
>If you're serious about programming, you've used or at least heard of Lua
"No, the real advantages are safety and garbage collection"
Only an advantage in some areas. If you're writing a low level caching algorithm such as for an RDBMS server or file system driver you don't want the runtime deciding when to flush the memory , you want to do it when you think its most efficient. Java is an application programming language , its not for low level code where you have to know what you're doing and thats where C/C++ comes into its own.
"is this because the performance and memory use would absolutely suck?"
No, I suspect its because no one has even heard of it. Theres dozens of me-too languages out there but until someone starts to use one a lot and it takes off no one cares. Fact of life I'm afraid.
>To be fair, Java does have some advantages over C and C++ for application development,
Apart from supposed portability I can't think of any. And that portability is overrated anyway since how often do companies mix and match Windows with X terminals with java stations to run a front end GUI, and how often does something think that a huge 1 million line backend mainframe program would be so much better if it could run on a cheap PC too?
>If someone downloads a file, the world is no different than it was before. Nobody is out anything.
Oh really? So if a musician or actor or scriptwriter might have got a percentage from the CD, DVD whatever if you'd bought one but you just copied it instead, how exactly are they not out of pocket?
>Yes, it's illegal now, but I'd wager that in the next 20 years we'll see something in the >way of government regulation of legalized personal marijuana.
Dream on. Just because dope smoking students, hippies and rastas want it legalised doesn't mean the whole population thinks its a good idea. It was made illegal for a good reason.
>But if I have an exact copy of the property deed, down to the last detail, so that as far as >the bank or anyone else is concerned is is as real and legit as the original, what is the >problem?
Are you really this dumb or is this just an act? Thats called forgery and conmen do this sort of thing all the time , using it to deprive people of their legal property. Tell you what , when you move out of your parents place , go buy a house and a car then give out copies of the deeds and the car ownership form to everyone who passes by. I mean they're just copies right? What harm can they do , you still have the original so whats the problem?
>Because the majority of The People do not beleive music theft to be a crime
I think you mean the majority of the people under 18. Most adults would consider it theft whether they'd do it themselves or not.
>you are under no moral obligation to obey them.
Do you live anarchist fairytale land or something? You have to obey the law whether you like it or not. If you don't like it you vote against the government at the next election , you don't just say its a free for all and do what you please. I think you're showing your rather (young) age.
...might have just looked a teensy bit suspicious too given the computer would now be unusable until the OS was reinstalled. A clean install would have looked suspect aswell IMO.
The linux kernel can be used more or less standalone or with non GNU tools and it'll still be linux. Remove the kernel from linux and what have you got? A bunch of unrunnable tools. Perhaps to keep people like Stallman happy it should be called Gnome/KDE/GNU/Linux since I suspect a lot of linux users never tough the gnu stuff themselves but go via the GUI.
None are completely secure , but if you have a proportion of the driver in user space as with microkernel OSes then that would possibly prevent any major security flaws if there was a bug in the user space part. Obviously if theres a bug in the ring 0 bit then you're screwed.
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>Revenge killings are commonplace and ... oh, hold on, no they're not
If people knew they had a good chance of getting away with it as they
do in Iraq there would be.
>The victim has no part in the criminal justice system... they're too biased.
Would a load of hippy cr@p. The victim has EVERY part to be involved. THEY were
the one who suffered, not the rest of society , THEM. Understand? God almighty
I despair when I hear people like you , you're type are the reason the current
UK criminal system is a mess because bleeding hearts bend over backwards to do
empathise with the criminal instead of their victim. You make me sick.
>Funny thing is that 90% of the uninformed crowd that follow each and every hype
That would be most of slashdot then.
>And your knee jerk troll response is positive in what way?
How typical. Your post was obviously an amazing flag waving piece of
OSS intellectualism , yet mine, because I disagreed with you was a
troll. Grow up.
>As for the real world, apparently you missed working in it.
Actually I suspect I've been working in it somewhat longer than you
sonny, and if you really think an individual or business who has
enough on their hands running day to day operations in the sphere
they're in are really going to start hacking browsers then you really
need to book a ticket for the next cluetrain.
>but there was nothing to stop you taking the code & fixing it yourself, or paying a
>programmer to do it for you.
Its stupid comments like that that give OSS a bad name. Perhaps he's running
a business full time and hasn't got the time/ability to fix it himself or the
money to pay someone. Come down out of Geek Cuckoo Land and smell the real
world.
>Which is fine, but such a definition of "innovation" that nothing can meet isn't very useful.
Innovation is something new. Buy a dictionary. If its been done before its not new hence
not innovative. This isn't a complex concept to grasp for chrissake.
>Aehm, N64 had the first true 3D jump'n run (Mario64), first game with lock-on fights (ZeldaOoT),
Hardly ground breaking even if true (and I'm damn sure they're was prior art).
>analog-stick
Some 1970s consoles had analogue controls. BFD.
>rumblepack
Very well designed. You could use the rumble pack or memory expansion but
not both at the same time. Genius.
>dedicated controls for the camera
Err , sorry? It had a few extra buttons on the keypad that in Mario64
happened to be used for the camera. So what?
>What those particular consoles has to do with Wii, is beyond me, though.
You smoking something?
Can't say I've noticed much innovation in Nintendos kit to be honest either. Gamecube, N64? Where was the innovation in them? And then there's the software. Who wants to lay money on "Wii Sports" actually being "Marios Egg and Spoon Racing Challenge" or similar childish junk that this company consistently dredges up for its console launches? Conveniently forgetting that these days the people who buy consoles are not 12 years old. Perhaps in japan 20-somethings are still into cartoons (Manga anyone?) but in the west we generally want something a bit more adult, and Nintendo rarely deliver on that initially if at all.
Can't say I've noticed much innovation in Nintendos kit recently either to be honest. Certainly the launch software seems to be endless pre-teen drivel with the occasional "adult" game title thrown in as a bone to the people who actually have the money to spend. If its true then a sports title would be a change for Nintendo but it wouldn't surprise me if its actually something like "Marios Egg and Spoon Racing challenge" or similar childish junk.
Williams Defender - best adrenaline rush ever devised for a CRT screen.
Nothing since has even come close. You don't need another 4 games to add
to a best ever list , this game is enough on its own.
>With attitudes like that, it's no wonder programming jobs are being exported. If you want to keep ?>getting paid for hammering in nails, don't ignore someone suggesting a better hammer.
You think they're using Lua in Bombay?? Get real.
Oh fantastic , a high level games programming language (presumably for those who can't master C or assembler). I'll have to suggest it to my boss next time we need to write some trivial market access program that has to run 24/7/365 and process a few million trades an hour.
>If you're serious about programming, you've used or at least heard of Lua
Uh huh , whatever you say sonny.
"No, the real advantages are safety and garbage collection"
Only an advantage in some areas. If you're writing a low level
caching algorithm such as for an RDBMS server or file system
driver you don't want the runtime deciding when to flush the
memory , you want to do it when you think its most efficient.
Java is an application programming language , its not for
low level code where you have to know what you're doing and
thats where C/C++ comes into its own.
"is this because the performance and memory use would absolutely suck?"
No, I suspect its because no one has even heard of it. Theres dozens of
me-too languages out there but until someone starts to use one a lot
and it takes off no one cares. Fact of life I'm afraid.
>To be fair, Java does have some advantages over C and C++ for application development,
Apart from supposed portability I can't think of any. And that portability is overrated
anyway since how often do companies mix and match Windows with X terminals with java stations
to run a front end GUI, and how often does something think that a huge 1 million line
backend mainframe program would be so much better if it could run on a cheap PC too?
>Borrowing" light from other cells when underexposed and "sending" light to other cells when overexposed.
Sounds like a recipe for bleed over if ever I heard one.
>If someone downloads a file, the world is no different than it was before. Nobody is out anything.
Oh really? So if a musician or actor or scriptwriter might have got a percentage from the CD, DVD whatever if you'd bought one but you just copied it instead, how exactly are they not out of pocket?
>Yes, it's illegal now, but I'd wager that in the next 20 years we'll see something in the
>way of government regulation of legalized personal marijuana.
Dream on. Just because dope smoking students, hippies and rastas want it legalised doesn't mean the whole population thinks its a good idea. It was made illegal for a good reason.
>But if I have an exact copy of the property deed, down to the last detail, so that as far as
>the bank or anyone else is concerned is is as real and legit as the original, what is the
>problem?
Are you really this dumb or is this just an act? Thats called forgery and conmen do this sort of thing all the time , using it to deprive people of their legal property. Tell you what , when you move out of your parents place , go buy a house and a car then give out copies of the deeds and the car ownership form to everyone who passes by. I mean they're just copies right? What harm can they do , you still have the original so whats the problem?
>if I could make an exact duplicate copy of any of them, and the original was still intact, then damn straight I would!
So money forgery is ok then?
>Because the majority of The People do not beleive music theft to be a crime
I think you mean the majority of the people under 18. Most adults would consider it theft whether they'd do it themselves or not.
>you are under no moral obligation to obey them.
Do you live anarchist fairytale land or something? You have to obey the law whether you like it or not. If you don't like it you vote against the government at the next election , you don't just say its a free for all and do what you please. I think you're showing your rather (young) age.
...might have just looked a teensy bit suspicious too given the computer
would now be unusable until the OS was reinstalled. A clean install would
have looked suspect aswell IMO.
>What's the point of having a running kernel if you don't even have a shell?
Look up "router"
The linux kernel can be used more or less standalone or with non GNU tools and it'll still be linux. Remove the kernel from linux and what have you got? A bunch of unrunnable tools.
Perhaps to keep people like Stallman happy it should be called Gnome/KDE/GNU/Linux since I suspect a lot of linux users never tough the gnu stuff themselves but go via the GUI.
None are completely secure , but if you have a proportion of the driver in user space as with microkernel OSes then that would possibly prevent any major security flaws if there was a bug in the user space part. Obviously if theres a bug in the ring 0 bit then you're screwed.
Insightful my arse. The guy obviously has no clue about how (non microkernel) operating systems and drivers work or tie together.