Surely you're kidding about aspirin and ibuprofen. Both were developed by drug companies; they're not apples that fell from the trees into the drugstore.
One of those fell from a willow tree and has been used for more than 25 centuries... (Salicylic acid) the trademark Aspirin was developed by a drug company, around the same time as Heroin.
.NET is a shameless copy of Java - They innovated changing the capitalization of the first letter in words, though. And make it cross-out-other-platforms.
VS is indeed the best after Eclipse, vi and Emacs (although the I never can remember in which order the last two should be mentioned, sorry)
[...]where he makes the case that, in the absence of a deity, no one has an inalienable right to anything. It's all arbitrary rules made up by society.
...and in the presence of a catholic deity, you have the (Spanish) Inquisition - you didn't expect them, did you? And in certain countries, as we all know, religion prescribes beheading or stoning under certain conditions that we might find unreasonable. The point is that religion only entitles you to what that particular religion believes to be reasonable - even when that's something as silly as trial by ordeal.
Of course they are all arbitrary rules made up by society. That's the point. We, the inhabitants of planet earth, or society, have agreed upon a set of rules - we can call them The Universal Declaration of Human Rights or something else - that we can agree to as being reasonable.
Mind you, I've heard priests say out loud that atheists could never be happy because they didn't know God. They are of course wrong. When someone dear to me died of cancer, I can mourn about her and don't have to be angry at an imaginary friend that did this to me.
While I don't like how Luckyo's answer was formulated - he does have a valid point. If you signed away all this fundamental rights, you did probably not do it because you believe it is necessary or a Good Thing. I suppose you did because you needed the job. The balance of power between employer and employee in this case is heavily tilted to one side.
Article 12 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.
You signed away a basic human right, and your country did nothing to protect you against this huge pressure you were experiencing.
If you want to understand how skewed this balance of power is, imagine how your employer would react if you would tell him you joined a specialized trade union.
Press releases by a single company, on the other hand are mostly well balanced views on reality, where distorted views are balanced by having a large population providing information.
Furthermore, if you haven't worked with Silverlight or WPF, you're really missing out on an amazing development experience.
And now this, the latest in a long steady stream of screw-overs.
I think you now have all the information you need. There is more to development than nice tools and API's.
Next time you repose your "family jewels" delicately into the iron fist of some economical giant, ask for a little more assurance about the future state of muscular tension in that fist. Once they have squeezed too hard it's too late to protest - your voice may be affected in such a way that nobody will take you seriously for a few months.
It's worse than spam. It's coordinated government propaganda on a large scale...
And even worse, it is not the government, it is an unelected body of the executive branch, hopefully controlled by the government.
If they want to take part in the public debate, they should do it in an open fashion.
But also for their own well being: what if after some years information about these secret dealings get (wiki)leaked? Political interventions by the military are symptoms of a dictatorship.
So, you essentially confirm what he said, you just offer advise how to deal with it. Greedy people are the problem.
To go into your analogy: the purpose of the bridge is to allow the economy to grow and be more efficient, not to provide some very smart people with an implement that stores a huge amount of potential energy due to its intended position in the gravitational field of planet Earth. Protect the bridge.
The market is there to provide companies with capital, so that the economy can grow. Protect it.
Funny thing is that since 2002 (Java 1.4) the assertion mechanism is a standard language feature - and intended for Design by Contract
And so the reinvented wheels of redundancy keep on turning and repeating themselves over and over again, but at least we can now assert that they were turning, will be turning and didn't stop turning in several ways...
You may infer and calculate correctly, but the given numbers are unlikely, 144 vertical pixels? That would be more like a ribbon. It's probably more like 256K x 144K, in that case it would be a factor of 18K larger.
Bur seriously, they have given back a lot of FOSS to the community themselves (GWT, contributions to Linux, OpenOffice etc) Have you?. They're getting the concept of FOSS, getting a lot out of it and giving something back - in such a way it is beneficial to their bottom line. And mine. And yours.
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From the paper "Disk failures in the real world: What does an MTTF of 1,000,000 hours mean to you?" by Bianca Schroeder Garth A. Gibson
In our data sets, the replacement rates of SATA disks are not worse than the replacement rates of SCSI or FC disks.
So the annual failure rates are apparently similar, regardless of vendor claims
Surely you're kidding about aspirin and ibuprofen. Both were developed by drug companies; they're not apples that fell from the trees into the drugstore.
One of those fell from a willow tree and has been used for more than 25 centuries... (Salicylic acid) the trademark Aspirin was developed by a drug company, around the same time as Heroin.
.NET is a shameless copy of Java - They innovated changing the capitalization of the first letter in words, though. And make it cross-out-other-platforms.
VS is indeed the best after Eclipse, vi and Emacs (although the I never can remember in which order the last two should be mentioned, sorry)
[...]where he makes the case that, in the absence of a deity, no one has an inalienable right to anything. It's all arbitrary rules made up by society.
...and in the presence of a catholic deity, you have the (Spanish) Inquisition - you didn't expect them, did you? And in certain countries, as we all know, religion prescribes beheading or stoning under certain conditions that we might find unreasonable. The point is that religion only entitles you to what that particular religion believes to be reasonable - even when that's something as silly as trial by ordeal.
Of course they are all arbitrary rules made up by society. That's the point. We, the inhabitants of planet earth, or society, have agreed upon a set of rules - we can call them The Universal Declaration of Human Rights or something else - that we can agree to as being reasonable.
Mind you, I've heard priests say out loud that atheists could never be happy because they didn't know God. They are of course wrong. When someone dear to me died of cancer, I can mourn about her and don't have to be angry at an imaginary friend that did this to me.
For the rest of the world it's the Transferring Restricted Access Information To Obstruct Rights act or TRAITOR act
While I don't like how Luckyo's answer was formulated - he does have a valid point. If you signed away all this fundamental rights, you did probably not do it because you believe it is necessary or a Good Thing. I suppose you did because you needed the job. The balance of power between employer and employee in this case is heavily tilted to one side.
Article 12 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.
You signed away a basic human right, and your country did nothing to protect you against this huge pressure you were experiencing.
If you want to understand how skewed this balance of power is, imagine how your employer would react if you would tell him you joined a specialized trade union.
The fundamental flaws in WebGL are an order of magnitude worse than almost any problem in Flash.
[citation needed]
Friend of mine is working on the smartphone part of Niko home control (3rd section). Sadly, smartphone==iPhone in lots of peoples minds...
BTW a Belgian product - figured you lot prefer the Anglo-Saxon variant of the site
Press releases by a single company, on the other hand are mostly well balanced views on reality, where distorted views are balanced by having a large population providing information.
Furthermore, if you haven't worked with Silverlight or WPF, you're really missing out on an amazing development experience.
And now this, the latest in a long steady stream of screw-overs.
I think you now have all the information you need. There is more to development than nice tools and API's.
Next time you repose your "family jewels" delicately into the iron fist of some economical giant, ask for a little more assurance about the future state of muscular tension in that fist. Once they have squeezed too hard it's too late to protest - your voice may be affected in such a way that nobody will take you seriously for a few months.
Maybe the Morris Marinas is a great car, afterall.
Perhaps, but they still seem to attract falling pianos way too often for my taste...
Saying "what" - not "how" you want it, is often the more intelligent stance. This is tethering on the brink of ridiculousness.
The real challenge is not getting a vehicle to go that speed... It's getting a vehicle to stay on the ground and under control at that speed.
Right. And that's where the really, really, REALLY big one kicks in to generate enough downforce. It's a bundle of 5 modified Saturn V's.
You didn't RTFA did you? Debian came in first. Not you.
Anytime someone utters the words "Federal Reserve Act of 1913", [etc. etc.]
True, true. But only after Federal Reserve Act of 1913 was signed, so it really was an evil event...
It's worse than spam. It's coordinated government propaganda on a large scale...
And even worse, it is not the government, it is an unelected body of the executive branch, hopefully controlled by the government.
If they want to take part in the public debate, they should do it in an open fashion.
But also for their own well being: what if after some years information about these secret dealings get (wiki)leaked? Political interventions by the military are symptoms of a dictatorship.
So, you essentially confirm what he said, you just offer advise how to deal with it. Greedy people are the problem.
To go into your analogy: the purpose of the bridge is to allow the economy to grow and be more efficient, not to provide some very smart people with an implement that stores a huge amount of potential energy due to its intended position in the gravitational field of planet Earth. Protect the bridge.
The market is there to provide companies with capital, so that the economy can grow. Protect it.
[...]Nokia's switch to "Windows Mobile" on the other hand looks like Microsoft peeing in Nokia's pants for warmth in winter.
Everybody ending up in bed with Microsoft gets screwed. To better tackle the iPhone - why not calling it the Windows iMobile?
Funny thing is that since 2002 (Java 1.4) the assertion mechanism is a standard language feature - and intended for Design by Contract
And so the reinvented wheels of redundancy keep on turning and repeating themselves over and over again, but at least we can now assert that they were turning, will be turning and didn't stop turning in several ways...
It's like warning for the danger that the thief driving away with your brand new car now has the ability to pick its door lock.
The issue might be more relevant for passwords passing over a network in clear text - but there are better solutions for that, llike https.
No, but you can find out more here: http://www.google.com/#q=bing
You may infer and calculate correctly, but the given numbers are unlikely, 144 vertical pixels? That would be more like a ribbon. It's probably more like 256K x 144K, in that case it would be a factor of 18K larger.
Yeah, this is nothing like a gang! More like the mob...
Reminds me more of a panel of judges, where the panel master, err, the chairman instructs the others to... Wait a minute!
MAYBE you should use less SHOUTING etc. ?
Bur seriously, they have given back a lot of FOSS to the community themselves (GWT, contributions to Linux, OpenOffice etc) Have you?. They're getting the concept of FOSS, getting a lot out of it and giving something back - in such a way it is beneficial to their bottom line. And mine. And yours.
Still looks more like it requires Adobe Reader to be a problem. I've seen other things from Adobe, they're about pretty things, not security.