People keep talking about programmers becoming tainted by looking at proprietary source code, but has anyone ever been sued or prosecuted after having done so?
Damn quote's too long to be a sig. Anyone got any suggestions for a 120 char version of it?
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If corporations are allowed to make decisions based on economics not morals.. then I get to make decisions based on economics not morals when I'm dealing with corporations... fair.
wow, I just wanted to re-iterate this. If i wasn't busy whoring my project I would make this my sig. Really, it is one of those things you read that kinda give you the shivers becaue they are so friggin right.
Yeah, it had the same effect on me too. It kind of summed up some vague thought that's been lurking at the back of my mind, and gave it form to rampage through my conciousness.
In fact, as I don't have a project to whore, I will make it my sig.
"That's not what you'll be thinking when a Joe Jobber effectively slashdots your server: you'll say No to a few people at first before your server melts down."
This would be no different from the current system where you get hundreds of 'undeliverable' messages when someone does a joe job on you. The bandwidth (and storage for all the 'undeliverables') would be improved in those instances.
Why don't they have a system that when an email is sent, the sending server makes a note. Then the receiving server receives the email and replies to the address asking 'did you send this?'. Then the sending server replies to that and says "yes", and the email is now authenticated.
Okay there would be an increase in mail traffic, but the eventual benefits, should outweigh that (though I'm very open to the fact that there is probably some fundamental flaw in my idea).
Is anyone going to actually answer the question of which course is best?
I'm interested in taking a course in Linux as well. Installing your own Linux system may be a great way to learn, but it doesn't look very good on a CV.
So which is the best Linux course (particularly online ones)?
Minor White (1834-1903), artist. You know, Google isn't so hard.
I wasn't interested enough to Google for it. I just wanted to qualify my statement of support by saying that it didn't apply to the first sentence as I wasn't sure what it meant.
Write up your course and release it on the web under a Creative Commons license so that the rest of us can also use it to learn/teach and so that we can improve upon it for you.
Because it's cheaper to buy the games and then take them back 10 days later for a full refund. However, every time I do that I always end up keeping a couple of them because they are so good.
The people in the shop know I do it and don't mind. They resell the games as new and I end up spending more on games this way (as well as getting more value for my money).
I've always felt that I wouldn't truly be impressed by computers beating human opponents at chess until they can play the whole game by themselves without a human there to make the moves for them.
I'd love to see the computers making their own moves and with a camera so that they can 'see' the board.
I thought DoA:XBV was a wonderful game, and quite an original one at that. It was very peaceful with no real objective or aim. You just wandered through the game playing a bit of volleyball, looking around the island and collecting swimsuits and items.
When it came out I had a weeks holiday from work and bought loads of games (DoA:XBV, Panzer Dragoon Orta, Metroid Prime, and a few others), intending to play them that week and then take them back for a refund at the end of the week. I ended up playing DoA:XBV all week as it was so captivating.
I've found much the same thing, though for me it's not about the rules changing. It's about the fact that I need to control how long I play for.
Disgaea is a great game for me because I can play it for 20 minutes while my girlfriend is in the bath, because you can save after almost every level in the main game (and they are short levels). Or I can sit down for four hours and play through the item world.
I used to love Final Fantasy but I never knew whether I would have to keep playing for 10 minutes or for 10 hours.
I want to be able to have short blasts on a game whilst still feeling I'm getting somewhere. I don't want to waste my time playing a random map on an FPS or a few fights in a beat em up. I still want to building a character or advancing a plot, just in short bursts.
This is why I'm hoping someone will have the good sense to add a suspend to memory feature to one of the next gen of consoles. Let me stop playing whenever I want!
The website is apparently Design News yet the background is one of the worst pieces of design I've seen. A very thinly striped background that strobes horribley when you scroll.
I have bought a few grey market games (though mainly ones that weren't released over here like Tactics Ogre). The very favourable £1 to $1.75 exchange rate makes that very enticing, (what's with your economy?!?) but often not as enticing as downloading them.
If it's a game I do particularly like I will buy it anyway so that I can play it on the train, play multiplayer, etc. Then it's well worth it.
Incidently, you never seem to see very cheap GBA games over here. You often get budget PS2 and PC games around the £5 mark. You sometimes even pick up PC games for £1 (even half decent ones sometimes), but you never see a GBA game around the £5 mark.
What they need before that is just a list of which hardware to buy to run with Linux.
If someone produced a list of which graphics cards, printers, scanners, etc was recommended for Linux, a huge amount of people would go out and buy them. That would then encourage the manufacturers to support Linux.
Personally I don't know whether people can do it or not; I haven't done any studies on it. However I do know that YOU shouldn't be assuming something is impossible just because you can't do it.
There are quite probably a lot of people out there who are better than you and they might be able to do it.
I have to say, I've been thinking of this myself, but always assumed there was a good reason not to do it and that I was being stupid for thinking it.
This has given more confidence now that obviously intelligent people are also thinking it.
The only real problem I can see with it is that if you didn't have an IDE available (you needed to hack a piece of code in notepad or something) you probably wouldn't understand the code, or at least, wouldn't be used to it.
With the size of code these days, though, it's getting harder and harder to do anything outside of an IDE.
A corrollory to this is that I've seen some programs display code as a flow chart which can be really useful sometimes. This would mean you could view it that way if you preferred.
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People keep talking about programmers becoming tainted by looking at proprietary source code, but has anyone ever been sued or prosecuted after having done so?
Damn quote's too long to be a sig. Anyone got any suggestions for a 120 char version of it?
wow, I just wanted to re-iterate this. If i wasn't busy whoring my project I would make this my sig. Really, it is one of those things you read that kinda give you the shivers becaue they are so friggin right.
Yeah, it had the same effect on me too. It kind of summed up some vague thought that's been lurking at the back of my mind, and gave it form to rampage through my conciousness.
In fact, as I don't have a project to whore, I will make it my sig.
This would be no different from the current system where you get hundreds of 'undeliverable' messages when someone does a joe job on you. The bandwidth (and storage for all the 'undeliverables') would be improved in those instances.
It would only be any worse for authentic mail.
Why don't they have a system that when an email is sent, the sending server makes a note. Then the receiving server receives the email and replies to the address asking 'did you send this?'. Then the sending server replies to that and says "yes", and the email is now authenticated.
Okay there would be an increase in mail traffic, but the eventual benefits, should outweigh that (though I'm very open to the fact that there is probably some fundamental flaw in my idea).
Is anyone going to actually answer the question of which course is best?
I'm interested in taking a course in Linux as well. Installing your own Linux system may be a great way to learn, but it doesn't look very good on a CV.
So which is the best Linux course (particularly online ones)?
Not having seen it yet, I can say that it's definitely changed the way I'm going to vote...
I wasn't interested enough to Google for it. I just wanted to qualify my statement of support by saying that it didn't apply to the first sentence as I wasn't sure what it meant.
Wasn't sure what this bit meant, but I wish I had mod points to mod up the rest of it.
A lovely response. I will probably quote your "it is impossible to deman art" in the future.
Write up your course and release it on the web under a Creative Commons license so that the rest of us can also use it to learn/teach and so that we can improve upon it for you.
;)
You know you should
You forgot that Europe doesn't count in anyway. These americans always forget that we have a legal system, governemnt, etc too.
Because it's cheaper to buy the games and then take them back 10 days later for a full refund. However, every time I do that I always end up keeping a couple of them because they are so good.
The people in the shop know I do it and don't mind. They resell the games as new and I end up spending more on games this way (as well as getting more value for my money).
I've always felt that I wouldn't truly be impressed by computers beating human opponents at chess until they can play the whole game by themselves without a human there to make the moves for them.
I'd love to see the computers making their own moves and with a camera so that they can 'see' the board.
Couldn't agree more.
I thought DoA:XBV was a wonderful game, and quite an original one at that. It was very peaceful with no real objective or aim. You just wandered through the game playing a bit of volleyball, looking around the island and collecting swimsuits and items.
When it came out I had a weeks holiday from work and bought loads of games (DoA:XBV, Panzer Dragoon Orta, Metroid Prime, and a few others), intending to play them that week and then take them back for a refund at the end of the week. I ended up playing DoA:XBV all week as it was so captivating.
I've found much the same thing, though for me it's not about the rules changing. It's about the fact that I need to control how long I play for.
Disgaea is a great game for me because I can play it for 20 minutes while my girlfriend is in the bath, because you can save after almost every level in the main game (and they are short levels). Or I can sit down for four hours and play through the item world.
I used to love Final Fantasy but I never knew whether I would have to keep playing for 10 minutes or for 10 hours.
I want to be able to have short blasts on a game whilst still feeling I'm getting somewhere. I don't want to waste my time playing a random map on an FPS or a few fights in a beat em up. I still want to building a character or advancing a plot, just in short bursts.
This is why I'm hoping someone will have the good sense to add a suspend to memory feature to one of the next gen of consoles. Let me stop playing whenever I want!
The website is apparently Design News yet the background is one of the worst pieces of design I've seen. A very thinly striped background that strobes horribley when you scroll.
Yuck!
Yeah, it's a bitch.
I have bought a few grey market games (though mainly ones that weren't released over here like Tactics Ogre). The very favourable £1 to $1.75 exchange rate makes that very enticing, (what's with your economy?!?) but often not as enticing as downloading them.
If it's a game I do particularly like I will buy it anyway so that I can play it on the train, play multiplayer, etc. Then it's well worth it.
Incidently, you never seem to see very cheap GBA games over here. You often get budget PS2 and PC games around the £5 mark. You sometimes even pick up PC games for £1 (even half decent ones sometimes), but you never see a GBA game around the £5 mark.
Either that or just download a GBA emulator and loads of ROMs from BT/ed2k and play them on your PC.
I too love the old-style 2d games that put a heavy emphasis on gameplay, but £30-40 a game is a bit much IMO.
I found the logo (and even the name) to be vaguely reminiscent of the Alliance and Leicester bank. I wonder if it's just a coincidence?
What they need before that is just a list of which hardware to buy to run with Linux.
If someone produced a list of which graphics cards, printers, scanners, etc was recommended for Linux, a huge amount of people would go out and buy them. That would then encourage the manufacturers to support Linux.
Personally I don't know whether people can do it or not; I haven't done any studies on it. However I do know that YOU shouldn't be assuming something is impossible just because you can't do it.
There are quite probably a lot of people out there who are better than you and they might be able to do it.
I have to say, I've been thinking of this myself, but always assumed there was a good reason not to do it and that I was being stupid for thinking it.
This has given more confidence now that obviously intelligent people are also thinking it.
The only real problem I can see with it is that if you didn't have an IDE available (you needed to hack a piece of code in notepad or something) you probably wouldn't understand the code, or at least, wouldn't be used to it.
With the size of code these days, though, it's getting harder and harder to do anything outside of an IDE.
A corrollory to this is that I've seen some programs display code as a flow chart which can be really useful sometimes. This would mean you could view it that way if you preferred.
Getting people pregnant may cure them of cancer?
Doctors are going to have a whale of time!
"Bend over the table Miss Johnson. I'm going to cure your cancer. It may take several doses though..."
You definitely deserve some mod points for that...
Make it big and loud and exciting and people will love to watch it (particularly 4-player SSBM).