Well, the more FLOSS code outr there, the bigest is FLOSS developers productivity. So, the codebase grows always faster. That thre is a gain is obvious, but the amount insn't, I am trying to measure it, but I bet on a proportional gain. If it is really proportional to the amount o code out, the code will grow exponentialy with time (like moore's law, and like this study finds).
"Concrete is good for tropical and warm climates where rainfall is not too high, but in the UK where humidity is high most of the year it is a recipe for damp and mould."
People here at a tropical and warm climate (Brazil) think croncrete is good for cold rainy climates... The fact is that you can do almost everything with concrete (even more if you put some steel inside it, what I think this can't do), but the badly designed constructions are the ones that get all the atention.
Concrete has even less problems with water than terracote, but if you fail to impermeabilize (not sure it is an english word) it will get wet, just a little less than terracote. Concrete makes it possible to build huge windows and, although it doesn't insulate as well as terracote, one can fix it with a bit of extra insulator. It can also have any shape you want, ugly houses happen because of bad architects, not because of concrete.
Yep, I don't expect something like that comming from anywhere else than the garage of some inventor. Now, I don't expect it to come by now either.
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I meant "there is no pointer arithimetics, and you can't deal directly with them". I tought it was pretty clear; of course every language have poiters by your definition, so it doesn't even make sense to talk about it.
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I've had the experience of teching introduction for programming on C++, that isn't nice. Java isn't good for it either, it's too complex and lacks an apropriate introduction for pointers (since it completely laks pointers). Personaly, I'd stick with Pascal.
That said, a CS course can't be judged by the 1st year's curriculum. You may not get some concepts well now, but if it a good course, you'll just have to study a bit more later. Alternatively, you may be studing hard now, but that doesn't guarantees that it is worth studing. The only thing that would concern me is if you don't study pointers and recursive functions early, normaly at the 1st year, but sometimes at the 2dn will also do it. Both are hard concepts that will change how you view things (pointers will introduce you to low level programming, recursive functions to hight level), and are much less valuable if you learn them late.
Tension of batteries vary, so energy is not exactly equals charge * nominal tension. Consequently, using joules is confusing and leads to marketeers using weard measuring schemes, like they do with power of sound systems.
DoSing it is hard, there is plenty of space for keys.
But the good part is that every old player will have its key revoked too. So, we can DoS a big part of the HD devices after they are sold... I forsee big troubles with key revocation.
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The question is: Is half lisp better or worse than a full one?
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That is notthe problem. How dare Microsoft makes it so HARD to write good, clear and maintanable code on their language?
"Secondly, we do hundreds on transactions a day, and deal with over a hundred vendors, and have over 10,000 different products. Pencil and paper doesn't work for us."
Glad Quickbook works for you. Most people would need a custom app (severly based on FOSS if they want to afford it) on those conditions.
"I thought it wasn't for the really poor people. I thought the laptop was for countries that were sufficiently developed that they could focus on education as opposed to sanitation, starvation, etc."
Well, take a look on the list of countries buying the laptop. They are not completely poor.
Your post is a bit uninfformed. The arguments seem reasonable, but aren't based on what is happening. First, 'technological community' is a bad name. That name includes huge companies that are pushing copy protection, but by lack of a better name, I'll use it too.
"The 'technology community' in general has shown no interest in building systems and standards that contain provisions for reasonably safeguarding IP contentholders legal rights"
Of course the tech community has no interest in building copy protection. It is becase it is impossible, and you won't see inteligent people interested on doing impossible things. You'll see more interest on faster than light and time travelling, because those we can't be competely sure that are impossible, but for copy protection we can be sure.
DRM and trusted computing are proposed by people that want lock-in or (even more subtle) to outlaw investigating their acts. The first are easy to identify, those are monopolists on the several IT areas, that want to eternize their dominant position. The later ones are current outlaws that fear the people (yep, politicians), those want secrecy on their bad doing. The content industry is also pushing for content protection, but they do that just to have people buying the same stuf several times. Stopping piracy is simply an excuse, since no possible system will do that.
"The 'technological community' in general has shown little to no interest in establishing a culture that encourages the safeguarding of IP contentholders legal rights"
Now, you're giving us too much merit. We don't have such homogeneous phylosophy, nor have power to push ideas on ordinary people (if we had, they woldn't be using Windows for a start). You are probably complaining because people is copying a lot, but that is them who are choosing to do that, not our fault.
"...or 'alternate economic theory' post which attempts to argue that IP regulation is completley unecessary using third grade logic (which to real economists is roughly the equivalent of creationism) gets modded up."
Bad logics doesn't get modded up at/., well, at least most of the times since moderation is noisy. That happens because logic is very important to lots of people here. There are posts that are not based on reality, but almost never bad logics. Anyway, childish F*k *AA gets up-moded, that is true.
"As a result, it is not unreasonable for lawmakers to address the problem by passing laws. Unfortunately, many of the laws they pass (including, at first glance, this one) are overbroad, over-reaching, ham-handed, unworkable, and/or completely ignorable. This is only partly because politicians and lawmakers are torpid and ignorant. The larger problem is because truly legislating such stuff is very very hard."
Not because of our oppinion. We are few, and have almost no power to push ideas on common pople (remember? bad social skills.). The laws are overboard, over-reaching and ham-handed because politicians want them that way. They are unworkable and/or completely ignorable because the only way to do what the politicans want them to do is with a police state. Powerful politicians normaly have nothing against a police state, so that is not a problem for them. Legislating such stuff is not hard, they just can't do that at once because the people would not like.
"IP protection is like pollution: any single individual has an incentive to pollute/violate copyright."
That's half true. We have hard evidence that pollution is harmfull to society, but we lack this evidence about copyright violation. I'm not saying we have no evidence at all, just that there is no undisputable or conclusive evidence about it.
What we have evidence about is that current copyrights hurts society. We have a lot of it, and all weeks some new o
I see... And as soon as Vista doesn't work, makes more complains that you can handle and destroys all legacy software you'll rip it out and install some Linux.
Very nice plan of yours:). Maybe I can use it too.
Well, it usualy is used to keep the name of your clients on a database, send them those cristmas cards (the main use), run nebulous data-mining programs that send discount cards (you probably know how often they get this right), and takes money apart of your boss.
Now, this one is designed by Microsoft... So, it may very well be usable for `Really nice place you have here, pity if it would burn, eh? Luigi here is really disappointed with your negative attitude to us.'
"3 - It's great for the coders, but for the people who want to use it, but don't want to code, or for the people who may be good at writing code, but lousy at reading others, it's a major deficit."
It is a deficit until you consider that the software that those non-coders will be using where written by coders, that like the flexibility.
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And MS always implements the specs right... Just don't came here complaining when they say that "it's a feature, not a bug".
Only if the environment requires that. If evil corporations are the sucessfull ones, they'll just become more evil.
'cat /dev/random' is still cheapper...
What is a funny irony...
Well, the more FLOSS code outr there, the bigest is FLOSS developers productivity. So, the codebase grows always faster. That thre is a gain is obvious, but the amount insn't, I am trying to measure it, but I bet on a proportional gain. If it is really proportional to the amount o code out, the code will grow exponentialy with time (like moore's law, and like this study finds).
People here at a tropical and warm climate (Brazil) think croncrete is good for cold rainy climates... The fact is that you can do almost everything with concrete (even more if you put some steel inside it, what I think this can't do), but the badly designed constructions are the ones that get all the atention.
Concrete has even less problems with water than terracote, but if you fail to impermeabilize (not sure it is an english word) it will get wet, just a little less than terracote. Concrete makes it possible to build huge windows and, although it doesn't insulate as well as terracote, one can fix it with a bit of extra insulator. It can also have any shape you want, ugly houses happen because of bad architects, not because of concrete.
Yep, I don't expect something like that comming from anywhere else than the garage of some inventor. Now, I don't expect it to come by now either.
I meant "there is no pointer arithimetics, and you can't deal directly with them". I tought it was pretty clear; of course every language have poiters by your definition, so it doesn't even make sense to talk about it.
I've had the experience of teching introduction for programming on C++, that isn't nice. Java isn't good for it either, it's too complex and lacks an apropriate introduction for pointers (since it completely laks pointers). Personaly, I'd stick with Pascal.
That said, a CS course can't be judged by the 1st year's curriculum. You may not get some concepts well now, but if it a good course, you'll just have to study a bit more later. Alternatively, you may be studing hard now, but that doesn't guarantees that it is worth studing. The only thing that would concern me is if you don't study pointers and recursive functions early, normaly at the 1st year, but sometimes at the 2dn will also do it. Both are hard concepts that will change how you view things (pointers will introduce you to low level programming, recursive functions to hight level), and are much less valuable if you learn them late.
Tension of batteries vary, so energy is not exactly equals charge * nominal tension. Consequently, using joules is confusing and leads to marketeers using weard measuring schemes, like they do with power of sound systems.
DoSing it is hard, there is plenty of space for keys.
But the good part is that every old player will have its key revoked too. So, we can DoS a big part of the HD devices after they are sold... I forsee big troubles with key revocation.
The question is: Is half lisp better or worse than a full one?
That is notthe problem. How dare Microsoft makes it so HARD to write good, clear and maintanable code on their language?
Glad Quickbook works for you. Most people would need a custom app (severly based on FOSS if they want to afford it) on those conditions.
So you can break it when you see the contents, but not if the company 'loses' the keys.
Well, take a look on the list of countries buying the laptop. They are not completely poor.
And always remember: Look for facts, not PR.
Your post is a bit uninfformed. The arguments seem reasonable, but aren't based on what is happening. First, 'technological community' is a bad name. That name includes huge companies that are pushing copy protection, but by lack of a better name, I'll use it too.
Of course the tech community has no interest in building copy protection. It is becase it is impossible, and you won't see inteligent people interested on doing impossible things. You'll see more interest on faster than light and time travelling, because those we can't be competely sure that are impossible, but for copy protection we can be sure.
DRM and trusted computing are proposed by people that want lock-in or (even more subtle) to outlaw investigating their acts. The first are easy to identify, those are monopolists on the several IT areas, that want to eternize their dominant position. The later ones are current outlaws that fear the people (yep, politicians), those want secrecy on their bad doing. The content industry is also pushing for content protection, but they do that just to have people buying the same stuf several times. Stopping piracy is simply an excuse, since no possible system will do that.
Now, you're giving us too much merit. We don't have such homogeneous phylosophy, nor have power to push ideas on ordinary people (if we had, they woldn't be using Windows for a start). You are probably complaining because people is copying a lot, but that is them who are choosing to do that, not our fault.
Bad logics doesn't get modded up at /., well, at least most of the times since moderation is noisy. That happens because logic is very important to lots of people here. There are posts that are not based on reality, but almost never bad logics. Anyway, childish F*k *AA gets up-moded, that is true.
Not because of our oppinion. We are few, and have almost no power to push ideas on common pople (remember? bad social skills.). The laws are overboard, over-reaching and ham-handed because politicians want them that way. They are unworkable and/or completely ignorable because the only way to do what the politicans want them to do is with a police state. Powerful politicians normaly have nothing against a police state, so that is not a problem for them. Legislating such stuff is not hard, they just can't do that at once because the people would not like.
That's half true. We have hard evidence that pollution is harmfull to society, but we lack this evidence about copyright violation. I'm not saying we have no evidence at all, just that there is no undisputable or conclusive evidence about it.
What we have evidence about is that current copyrights hurts society. We have a lot of it, and all weeks some new o
I see... And as soon as Vista doesn't work, makes more complains that you can handle and destroys all legacy software you'll rip it out and install some Linux.
Very nice plan of yours :). Maybe I can use it too.
Take away copyrights, and there is no more closed source software.
Well, it usualy is used to keep the name of your clients on a database, send them those cristmas cards (the main use), run nebulous data-mining programs that send discount cards (you probably know how often they get this right), and takes money apart of your boss.
Now, this one is designed by Microsoft... So, it may very well be usable for `Really nice place you have here, pity if it would burn, eh? Luigi here is really disappointed with your negative attitude to us.'
Of course, you should hightlight that he's talking about software. That logic changes on some industries.
It is a deficit until you consider that the software that those non-coders will be using where written by coders, that like the flexibility.
The UI is not some simple glue anymore. We have very complex UIs nowadays that couldn't port that easily from DE to DE.
That has absolutely no meaning. What is "natural phenomena"?
And, no, I'm not an atheist.
Those are good news. I didn't know it was cracked either.