Totally agree... if they want to sue Google for fragmenting Java, perhaps they should drag them to court for that... and not for patent and copyright infringement.
If Oracle had any sense at all, they'd strike a deal with Google to unfragment Java, it would get them more money in the long run then trying to sue everyone instead, creating uncertainty in Java's future.
Checksumming... will happily checksum that bit-error in cache if you donot have ECC memory -- fact is, data on disk is already heavily checksummed by the drive itself and on the busses its transmitted (otherwise we wouldn't have modern computers). Data going corrupt (unnoticed) happens mostly in main memory these days.
Transparent compression... magically makes your drive bigger so you can fit more text files on it! It won't do you any good for any of the REAL storage consumers though: music, video, games, pictures... as ALL of those are in compressed formats already.
More important than icons is actually placement. I will remember that I left my icon for a program somewhere on the top right much easier than that I can recognize it from a different spot on the desktop.
Your perfect world would also require extensive privacy invasions to enforce these laws.
I'm glad I donot life in your perfect world.
In my perfect world, an artist can expect to earn an average monthly wage. Top artists several times that. Of course, that's assuming they work. Sitting on your ass doing nothing earns nothing.
Nice patents, however, they all kinda assume that TV, as it is now, will not rapidly become a thing of the past. I donot have a TV subscription anymore (why pay for ads?) and I have noticed that live is better that way. I watch what I want, when I want it, and that never includes ads.
"If the laws against stealing were repealed tomorrow, would you start robbing stores daily? I don't need a law against murder to not murder. The fact you do indicates you are mentally ill, not that laws are the only things keeping the population civilized." -- quote from Swilver, 2012
It will only affect America, as we'll just shift to services not based in America. On the internet, nothing lasts forever, and if youtube, imdb, google or whatever else no longer fulfills the needs of its users people will go elsewhere.
To begin, we all agree that piracy is a form of stealing?
I stopped agreeing with you there (it is not taking away anything from anyone), but if I hadn't stopped there, I would have stopped here...
A content creator loses out on a royalty every time someone downloads their material
First, I don't support any models that scale with the amount of people on a planet and that at the same time have 0 reproduction costs (yes, it is 0 if I can reproduce it myself).
Second, I fail to see how copyright currently provides an incentive to artists to produce more good works when clearly they stand to profit from their works forever.
Third, copyright keeps being retroactively extended -- not just extended, but also applied to works that accepted the earlier limits fully knowing they would become public domain at some point. To me that is simply showing no respect to spirit of the this law at all and clearly shows that those that stand to benefit from these changes don't give a fuck about the public domain.
Put all of those together, and I have absolutely zero problems to ignore this notion they call "copyright" whenever I please.
Just using letters and digits, those 8 million combinations are roughly equal to a 4 character password (~2 million combinations, or ~15 million combinations if you also allow caps).
So it would be 3 drags vs. 4 taps (on a keyboard)... wooptidoo.
Sometimes the right thing to do is to press on on amber - I usually stop but only if there's time to do it without the half-asleep moron behind rearranging the back of your car.
Ehr, that's the entire purpose of the amber light (or yellow light as we prefer to call it). When the light turns yellow, if you are far enough away from the light to stop normally, then you stop. Otherwise you can continue.
Yellow lights are tuned for this -- the duration of the yellow is determined by the maximum speed for the road it is placed in and the normal stopping distance + reaction time of a driver. In countries where they have common sense anyway.
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Yeah, all my previous single player games were swamped with botters and cheaters... oh wait...
Last one should be 2.8... the double time is increasing, but not as much as you make it out to be.
Totally agree... if they want to sue Google for fragmenting Java, perhaps they should drag them to court for that... and not for patent and copyright infringement.
If Oracle had any sense at all, they'd strike a deal with Google to unfragment Java, it would get them more money in the long run then trying to sue everyone instead, creating uncertainty in Java's future.
Yeah, it's just a small niche language that barely is used at all by businesses with investments to protect...
int max(int c, int d);
int min(int c, int d);
int max(int c, int d) {
return c > d ? c : d;
}
int min(int c, int d) {
return c d ? c : d;
}
Checksumming... will happily checksum that bit-error in cache if you donot have ECC memory -- fact is, data on disk is already heavily checksummed by the drive itself and on the busses its transmitted (otherwise we wouldn't have modern computers). Data going corrupt (unnoticed) happens mostly in main memory these days.
Transparent compression... magically makes your drive bigger so you can fit more text files on it! It won't do you any good for any of the REAL storage consumers though: music, video, games, pictures... as ALL of those are in compressed formats already.
More important than icons is actually placement. I will remember that I left my icon for a program somewhere on the top right much easier than that I can recognize it from a different spot on the desktop.
It's even easier.
1) Install Opera.
2) Activate "turbo mode".
3) Browse as usual.
Happy downloading.
Your perfect world would also require extensive privacy invasions to enforce these laws.
I'm glad I donot life in your perfect world.
In my perfect world, an artist can expect to earn an average monthly wage. Top artists several times that. Of course, that's assuming they work. Sitting on your ass doing nothing earns nothing.
No, to me three months sounds just about right.
Nice patents, however, they all kinda assume that TV, as it is now, will not rapidly become a thing of the past. I donot have a TV subscription anymore (why pay for ads?) and I have noticed that live is better that way. I watch what I want, when I want it, and that never includes ads.
$5000 for the software eh?
In that case, I have some "enterprise class" text editing software to sell you, only $1000/license.
Replace the 60 TB for 60 GB and this comment could have been posted 10 years ago, yet the world hasn't imploded.
I'll change my ways immediately. My actions being characterized as 'dick moves' by some nobody on the internet is just unacceptable.
My password expired the day before you took my laptop. I changed it, but only used it that one time. I donot remember it anymore.
"If the laws against stealing were repealed tomorrow, would you start robbing stores daily? I don't need a law against murder to not murder. The fact you do indicates you are mentally ill, not that laws are the only things keeping the population civilized." -- quote from Swilver, 2012
I hope it didn't hurt too much.
One wonders how you learned to write at all with this philosophy, as I'm sure it wasn't your idea.
They've had their chance to be reasonable. Now it is our turn to be unreasonable back -- abolish it, or pretend it is.
It will only affect America, as we'll just shift to services not based in America. On the internet, nothing lasts forever, and if youtube, imdb, google or whatever else no longer fulfills the needs of its users people will go elsewhere.
Just make sure the system is not fooled by a good photo of you then.
I can see it now... the price increasing the closer I come to a gas station when I'm almost out, as demand just went up :)
I stopped agreeing with you there (it is not taking away anything from anyone), but if I hadn't stopped there, I would have stopped here...
First, I don't support any models that scale with the amount of people on a planet and that at the same time have 0 reproduction costs (yes, it is 0 if I can reproduce it myself).
Second, I fail to see how copyright currently provides an incentive to artists to produce more good works when clearly they stand to profit from their works forever.
Third, copyright keeps being retroactively extended -- not just extended, but also applied to works that accepted the earlier limits fully knowing they would become public domain at some point. To me that is simply showing no respect to spirit of the this law at all and clearly shows that those that stand to benefit from these changes don't give a fuck about the public domain.
Put all of those together, and I have absolutely zero problems to ignore this notion they call "copyright" whenever I please.
Just using letters and digits, those 8 million combinations are roughly equal to a 4 character password (~2 million combinations, or ~15 million combinations if you also allow caps).
So it would be 3 drags vs. 4 taps (on a keyboard)... wooptidoo.
Ehr, that's the entire purpose of the amber light (or yellow light as we prefer to call it). When the light turns yellow, if you are far enough away from the light to stop normally, then you stop. Otherwise you can continue.
Yellow lights are tuned for this -- the duration of the yellow is determined by the maximum speed for the road it is placed in and the normal stopping distance + reaction time of a driver. In countries where they have common sense anyway.
You must be near death then, because I will definitely see this in my life time.