I do not know what your intention were in writing the above post. Maybe you wrote it purely for own reasons to blow off some steam or you felt that
someone was wrong on the internet. But if you also want to influence other people, politeness is much, much, much more effective than insulting them. And to other people not target for the insult you risk appearing childish by calling the other person douchebag etc. So I kindly ask you to consider being more polite. Not because I felt insulted or think you should not be allowed to say what you want. But because I think the world would be a better place if you did.
I really did not know, thank you for making me better informed. Although true or not true, that does not change the point that there ought not be any problem for anyone's children to inherit their music collection.
Back in the days, Borland was a refreshingly sound and sensible manufacturer, trusting its customers (as opposed to others' love for dongles or code wheels or whatnot). If you are not familiar with Borlands's No-Nonsense License Statement, by all means read the full story.
This software is protected by both United States copyright law and international copyright treaty provisions. Therefore, you must treat this software just like a book, except that you may copy it onto a computer to be used and you may make archival copies of the software for the sole purpose of backing-up our software and protecting your investment from loss.
Companies do not set out to write good software. They set out to write good enough software, for some definition of good enough. I think that is the root cause of the existence of bad software as discussed in the article.
The latter interests me: I'd love to read clueful arguments *for* the www prefix.
If you have your web server operate at www.example.com and not example.com, you will be able to use static.example.com for serving static content. As a user I can trust that content from static.example.com is safe to be included at www.example.com. This is simple and obvious, in contrast to sstatic.com for stackoverflow.com, yimg.com for youtube.com and similar mindboggling FTW name relations. There is no way I can deduce that bizarre-domain.com for website.com is not some kind of fishing/MITM attemt.
Interestingly enough, the study separates Catholic schools from other private schools.... it seems like you have a better shot of being good at reason if you are trained by them.
Correlation does not imply causation. It might for instance be caused by children going to catholic schools are more likely to live in a family with two parents, and that that is a factor that will stimulate developing reasoning. Or maybe they have more siblings. Or it might be something else. Of course it could be that going to a catholic school is better for developing reasoning, but I do not think it is possible to conclude that without analysing the data set with that hypothesis as specifically in mind and eliminating the possible differences in the reference group and the test group (e.g. comparing groups with equal distribution of siblings, etc).
Static for functions or variables with file level linkage makes them "private" to that file. E.g. in this case, several source files can define global variables named world_type without collisions. That is provided all declare them static. One of the files might ommit, but if two or more source files declare non-static global variables named world_type then the linker will (correctly) complain when linking.
Steve Gibson (Secutiry Now! podcast, SpinRite disk recovery tool) just did a twit special episode about his experiences so far in his food experimentation which sounds similar. He has not done it for a long period yet, but he also considered it a life-before-and-after mark and he says he will never go back.
TrackMeNot is a lightweight browser extension that helps protect web searchers from surveillance and data-profiling by search engines. It does so not by means of concealment or encryption (i.e. covering one's tracks), but instead, paradoxically, by the opposite strategy: noise and obfuscation. With TrackMeNot, actual web searches, lost in a cloud of false leads, are essentially hidden in plain view. User-installed TrackMeNot works with the Firefox Browser and popular search engines (AOL, Yahoo!, Google, and Bing) and requires no 3rd-party servers or services.
The only way to make these kinds of problems go away is to make it illegal and punishable to claim copyright on something that you do not own the copyright for.
That argument boils down to "anything non-perfect can be improved", which certainly is true, but as an argument just by itself it has (next to) no value. As an supplement to some other argument it makes more sense, but then present that argument instead.
A model is never the same thing as the reality that it is modelling. There will be differences - hence "wrong". Of course that does not exclude the model from being useful.
Overall I think this is a positive way of trying to improve a complex reality. There was an experiment in 1990 of an imaginary town called Tanaland, and most people failed miserably in improving the long term life conditions for its inhabitants. From http://tersesystems.com/2011/06/10/the-logic-of-failure:
The setup was simple. Dorner set up a computer simulation of an African village called Tanaland. This book was written in 1990, and so Sim City was not widely known, but itâ(TM)s the same concept. The players were given dictatorial powers, given the goal to âoeimprove the wellbeing of the peopleâ and had six opportunities over 10 years to review (and possibly change) their policies.
Given the tools the players had at hand, they went to improving what they could. They improved the food supply (using artifical fertilizer) and increased medical care. There were more children and fewer deaths, and lif expectancy was higher. For the first three sessions, everything went well. But unknown to the players, they'd set up an unsustainable situation.
Famine typically broke out in the 88th month. The agarian population dropped dramatically, below what they had been initially. Sheep, goats and cows died off in their herds, and the land was left barren by the end. Given a free hand, most players engineered a wasteland.
If "terrorist" had been such a fashion blame word in the 80s as it has become today, Nelson Mandela would undoubtedly have been labelled as one by the South African government. Witch -> Communist -> Terrorist. Whenever accuses someone of being terrorist, they are implicitly arguing "I do not have a valid argument, so instead I will put a blame tag on him/her/them".
Interesting. I used clearcase for over a decade on my previous job and I liked it. To me git appears as if it has its user interface slapped on as an after thought, so I am not super in love with it. I will check out this.
The only way to fix the current sad state of affairs with regards to copyright claims is to make it illegal to claim copyright on things that you actually does not own copyright for. As it is now there are no juridical balance. For someone making a false copyright claim, there is no (juridical) negative consequences, and this is of course a disaster receipt. Remember that Lady Justice is using a scale. If someone copies copyright material non-compliant with the rights they have, they are only "stealing" from the copyright owner. If someone claims copyright on something that is public domain, they are "stealing" from every person in the whole world. In my opinion this is a much greater "theft", and it ought to be punished accordingly.
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I do not know what your intention were in writing the above post. Maybe you wrote it purely for own reasons to blow off some steam or you felt that someone was wrong on the internet. But if you also want to influence other people, politeness is much, much, much more effective than insulting them. And to other people not target for the insult you risk appearing childish by calling the other person douchebag etc. So I kindly ask you to consider being more polite. Not because I felt insulted or think you should not be allowed to say what you want. But because I think the world would be a better place if you did.
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I really did not know, thank you for making me better informed. Although true or not true, that does not change the point that there ought not be any problem for anyone's children to inherit their music collection.
Precisely Bruce Willi's point when he wants to leave his music collection to his daughters (computerworld, cnn dailymail yahoo).
Companies do not set out to write good software. They set out to write good enough software, for some definition of good enough. I think that is the root cause of the existence of bad software as discussed in the article.
I think you also missed to include the corresponding XKCD reference for this :)
Jeff Atwood has an blog Working with the Chaos Monkey.
"a = a++" is undefined behaviour according to the standard (modifying a variable several times between two sequence points).
The phrase "Permanent Emergency" made me think of "war is peace".
If you have your web server operate at www.example.com and not example.com, you will be able to use static.example.com for serving static content. As a user I can trust that content from static.example.com is safe to be included at www.example.com. This is simple and obvious, in contrast to sstatic.com for stackoverflow.com, yimg.com for youtube.com and similar mindboggling FTW name relations. There is no way I can deduce that bizarre-domain.com for website.com is not some kind of fishing/MITM attemt.
I tend to consider most advertising as an intellectual insult.
Correlation does not imply causation. It might for instance be caused by children going to catholic schools are more likely to live in a family with two parents, and that that is a factor that will stimulate developing reasoning. Or maybe they have more siblings. Or it might be something else. Of course it could be that going to a catholic school is better for developing reasoning, but I do not think it is possible to conclude that without analysing the data set with that hypothesis as specifically in mind and eliminating the possible differences in the reference group and the test group (e.g. comparing groups with equal distribution of siblings, etc).
Static for functions or variables with file level linkage makes them "private" to that file. E.g. in this case, several source files can define global variables named world_type without collisions. That is provided all declare them static. One of the files might ommit, but if two or more source files declare non-static global variables named world_type then the linker will (correctly) complain when linking.
Steve Gibson (Secutiry Now! podcast, SpinRite disk recovery tool) just did a twit special episode about his experiences so far in his food experimentation which sounds similar. He has not done it for a long period yet, but he also considered it a life-before-and-after mark and he says he will never go back.
The only way to make these kinds of problems go away is to make it illegal and punishable to claim copyright on something that you do not own the copyright for.
Would you please read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem?
That argument boils down to "anything non-perfect can be improved", which certainly is true, but as an argument just by itself it has (next to) no value. As an supplement to some other argument it makes more sense, but then present that argument instead.
A model is never the same thing as the reality that it is modelling. There will be differences - hence "wrong". Of course that does not exclude the model from being useful.
Overall I think this is a positive way of trying to improve a complex reality. There was an experiment in 1990 of an imaginary town called Tanaland, and most people failed miserably in improving the long term life conditions for its inhabitants. From http://tersesystems.com/2011/06/10/the-logic-of-failure:
Looks like someone arrogantly (and incorrectly?) thinks he/she in the upper portion.
If "terrorist" had been such a fashion blame word in the 80s as it has become today, Nelson Mandela would undoubtedly have been labelled as one by the South African government. Witch -> Communist -> Terrorist. Whenever accuses someone of being terrorist, they are implicitly arguing "I do not have a valid argument, so instead I will put a blame tag on him/her/them".
Interesting. I used clearcase for over a decade on my previous job and I liked it. To me git appears as if it has its user interface slapped on as an after thought, so I am not super in love with it. I will check out this.
The only way to fix the current sad state of affairs with regards to copyright claims is to make it illegal to claim copyright on things that you actually does not own copyright for. As it is now there are no juridical balance. For someone making a false copyright claim, there is no (juridical) negative consequences, and this is of course a disaster receipt. Remember that Lady Justice is using a scale. If someone copies copyright material non-compliant with the rights they have, they are only "stealing" from the copyright owner. If someone claims copyright on something that is public domain, they are "stealing" from every person in the whole world. In my opinion this is a much greater "theft", and it ought to be punished accordingly.
Oh, that sounds like a very good idea... WHY Some WOMEN Choose THE WRONG MAN Time and Time and Time Again
By all means read the paper 'I've Got Nothing to Hide' and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy, it will give you lots of reasons for why this is a fallacy. Also recommended reading is Bruce Schneier's blog post about the subject.