And "fucking" is considered profanity by most everybody, including the people who use it. Although I find it funny that you link the post to prove that you didn't use profanity when it's right there in that final sentence.
Your first post was highly combative and dismissive of the parent posted for not wanting to be roped into playing phone tech support for his family, friends, and their immediate circle.
What exactly about my original post was combative? And what about the parent I replied to was about not wanting to play tech support for his family.
Your first reply to me was more of the same with the added civility of profanity.
My first reply to you was absolutely devoid of any profanity (unless you consider "ridiculous" to be profanity, and that would be ridiculous. It also added no additional tones to your own, unless you consider replacing the word "unreasonable" with "ridiculous" to be more combative than what you sent me.
My second reply to you was a result of frustration, and I did apologize for that. However, you really do have issues with reading comprehension. The parent I was replying to was not saying anything about trying to not be roped into tech support to his family (and I wasnÂt at all combative against him). The post I replied to (which did include profanity, not that I care) was making the point that when somebody in a field about computers doesn't know something about another field about computers, they should just accept they don't know anything about it, and an outsider shouldn't think he is a moron because of it. Read the parent of his post.
Basically, you misinterpreted all my posts, you misinterpreted the post I was replying to...and you apparently got offended by a supposed "combative tone" because I threw back at you the same words you threw at me. I know you have to be trolling for my responses, but by this point I'm actually having fun with this.
Personal attacks aside. I was just saying that you probably had seen one, even if you didn't realize it.
If you want to rewrite history, whatever. Your original post didn't say "you probably saw one, but didn't realize it." It criticized my "attempt at information gathering" and "unreasonable assumptions." My reply to that was entirely civil...all I said that wasn't an explanation of what I thought you misunderstood was that you made some ridiculous assumptions yourself while criticizing me for making them. You can't exactly claim to be offended for hearing the same words right back at you.
Your reply to that was some weird insult that I demonstrate "the worst stereotypes in computer people" and used as evidence another complete misunderstanding of what I was trying to say. I got frustrated and mouthed off when your entire argument was based on misunderstanding every single point I tried to make. I know I'm no novelist, but I've never been so incapable of expressing my thoughts using the English language before in my life. For whatever it's worth, I'm sorry. If you actually have any interest, here's my attempt at a better worded post to convey my original meaning. If you're not interested, you can stop reading right now.
I don't think that people who aren't computer professionals should have a high-level knowledge of computers. I don't get angry when they are ignorant of the subject. As I've said in my original post, I'll gladly (and I used that word) help them the first time they come to me with a problem. At that point, I don't just do it for them, I try to show them how to do it, and I ask them if they have any questions.
I do get annoyed when, after having explained the process for completing a task, people come to me for help for the same task, or an extremely similar task, without performing any attempt to solve the problem on their own first. I don't mind helping them at all if they've first tried it on their own, even if it's the exact same task. If somebody comes to me and says, "I know you showed me how to do this, but I really can't remember this step" I can understand that. My memory isn't perfect either. I want the effort from them first, however. That's the only way they're going to learn.
Here's how the razr comes in. I know it's a phone, I know it doesn't have a setup.exe file to install stuff. You're right that I have absolutely no idea about anything else related to it. However, based on being "a computer guy" I know perfectly well that my previous experience with a variety of other gadgets will allow me to, after playing with the thing for half an hour, figure out how to install something that was obviously meant for an end-user to install. That was a great example of triggers impatience in computer people like me as opposed to others. When I don't know how to do something, I'm not afraid to try to figure it all out using the knowledge that I do have, or try to find via tools I also have (like google).
And that's the important part. I'm not saying I'm smarter than anybody else. If I thought that, I wouldn't be allowed to be pissed off at them, I'd just be using a skill they don't have. I'm saying they are just as capable of figuring it out as I am. Installing an end-user application/game on a phone that doesn't involve doing weird stuff like unlocking it is something that was meant for the end-user to figure out. There are instructions. There are things to click at. I know I can do it. I know they can do it. And when they come to me for help, I want to teach them how to figure that type of stuff on their own, so that they no longer need to be dependent on people like me. It annoys the crap out of me when they don't want to: when they want to be dependent on me, because it's easier than learning how to operate their own computers / phones / vcr's.
Sorry for doubting your obviously huge penis and apparent maturity. Have fun on the job search. Althoug
It was found in driver code. Part of the goal of driver code is to be as lean and mean as possible
He failed. In the function in question he had the number of days since Jan 1, 1980. At the end of the loop, he was supposed to have the number of years since 1980 + the number of days since the beginning of the current year. His solution was to iterate the year beginning from 1980, check to see if it's a leap year, then subtract 365 or 366 days accordingly. The loop would supposedly continue until the desired state is achieved but, because of the bug, became an infinite loop at the end of leap years.
Not only was his function not "lean and mean" but it actually gets more expensive to run every year that passes:)
I'm also curious as to why 1980 is the epoch, but that's not as important.
And you have obviously had little to no idea since you assumed there would be a setup.exe type thing.
Oh my god, you are retarded.
I'm not sure how you passed your high school's reading comprehension section in your exit exam, or assuming you didn't, how you got a software developer job without even a high school diploma, but let me break it all down for you:
"I have never seen one" is much more likely to mean, "have never physically seen one" than it is to mean "I have no idea what it is." In fact, if you tell me that you have seen the space shuttle, and then later tell me that you meant that you saw it on tv, and not actually in real life, you're a fucking moron. Oh wait, we already know that you are.
Second, the post was divided into two parts. Part a...I could figure out how to install stuff even without having any experience with the device in question. Part b, people are unwilling to use their previously acquired experience to help them figure out new experiences.
In other words, there were two separate, unrelated, examples in that post and the only thing in common between them is that the word "install" was used in both.
Unless they used a Whopper wrapper in the attack, it's a little hard to see where you are going with that whole train of thought there in comparing actions totally unrelated to the attack to actions participating in the attack.
Actually, the train of thought is just as valid. The photographs weren't part of the attack, they were part of the planning for the attack. By themselves, they were harmless.
You could say that anything that helps the attack should be restricted, but then we get back to the eating and sleeping issues. If the terrorists had been starving and sleep deprived, they wouldn't have been able to pull off the attack.
Basically, a lot of things can give you an edge when performing an illegal activity. Your above-average intelligence (do we need to register people with high IQ with the government?), the layout knowledge you have of the building you work at (do we need to start frisking store employees everyday when they leave work because they are in a better position to steal than clients who show up at the store?)...You can't make the tools illegal (yes, that includes guns), you can only make the action illegal. You should always be free to take pictures, but if you perform a terrorist act to use those pictures you can be prosecuted for performing the terrorist act (and no, not for 'using pictures in a terrorist act' we don't need more stupid laws that make something illegal when there's already a law that makes the important part illegal).
So science journals should start putting Martha Stewart recipes in them; I mean I'm sure the people that read Science enjoy food too.
Slashdot isn't a science journal, it's a blog. In addition, "nerds" have quite a lot of tastes
I started coming to this site because it was full of nerdy goodness. It's turned into, at best, a mediocre tech site...
Nobody has the right to force you to keep reading the site. You don't have the right to tell them not to post stories that others enjoy just because you feel slashdot is not an appropriate venue. Filter the front page via your preferences, or quit slashdot, but don't waste your time going to an article you supposedly don't care about and posting about how much it sucks. That's just pathetic.
And that's one thing that annoys software developers like me. It's not that "computer guys" don't know anything, it's that they assume they know more than what they do and make unreasonable assumptions about what to do before they even make the most cursory attempt at information gathering.
You're not much better. You make ridiculous assumptions when you hear/read something that has two possible meanings.
I never said I didn't know what a RAZR was. I said I've never seen one in the sense of touching / messing with it / having installed something on it. I honestly have no idea what the interface of the thing looks like, I don't go around looking at my friend's phones. I don't even know what phones they have, one of them might have a razr.
Still, even though I don't know how to install a game on the thing, I'm pretty sure that if it has games to be installed, I could either figure it out by messing with the interface, or perform a google search and figure it out. That's what I do with things I don't know how to do all the fucking time, and things get accomplished without me bothering somebody else.
I bet you love when people ask you, "The computer guy" what you think about some computer topic you know nothing about. Obviously since you know about computers, you can help them install the game their kid downloaded for their RAZR, right?
Yes. I've never even seen a RAZR, but I know for certain that I could figure out how to install said game.
That's one thing that annoys a lot of us "computer guys". It's not that people don't know something. It's that people don't even try to figure out things they don't know on their own before asking stupid questions. If they come to me for help with installing a program on their computer I gladly help and show them how it's done. When they come to me a second time for help on installing a different program on their computer, I wonder why the hell they didn't think of trying the same pattern I showed them the last time. Find the setup.exe, and click "next" when told to. It's the same goddamn process, try it before assuming it's too complicated.
I'm the same way. I mean, like, take my computer, for instance. I want to be in complete control over everything that it does, so I use it as a stand for my abacus.
You can post to slashdot using an abacus? You've got to teach me the mad skillz:)
It's the hip new anti-environmentalist meme. Anything that is supposed to lessen emissions actually increases them because you have to build it!
It's not even that, it's just irrational BS. I'm far from an environmentalist and yet I use CFLs. Why? They last longer before burning out (in most cases) and make for a cheaper electricity bill.
Sun has a history of not playing nicely with other projects, however. A real culture of "not invented here"
I think I'm siding with sun here. It's not like they're asking that the code not be open source, they just want it dual licensed. Not to mention the fact that kohei had already signed the JCA, and then decided he no longer wanted to.
Legally, if Sun wanted to be asses, they could have made their solver a fork of the code Kohei had already submitted, since he had already signed the JCA (and they would be totally in their rights to do it). Instead, they decided to avoid the ensuing controversy and accusations by just writing a new one from scratch. They went out of their way to make sure nobody gets screwed.
More and more, Amazon is doing order processing for others.
I agree their statistics are fishy, but Amazon's profit margin has got to be greater when doing order processing for others than when selling their own warehoused products.
I mean, just how much more are they spending on the infrastructure to handle those orders than they would be spending on the same infrastructure to just sell their stuff? It's essentially free for them, they just get paid for stuff they needed to have up anyway (databases / bandwidth)
he wants A to be in the headquater, B to be an employee in Omaha, and C is some person doing industrial spying in Russia or China.
Almost. Actually, he wants A to be in the headquarters, B to an employee in Omaha, and C to be some person doing industrial spying who has recruited the help of B
His question indicates that his company is being accused of showing confidential documents from one of his clients to a competitor of said client. Then he goes on to say that he can't be sure what all of the company employees are doing with the documetns, so he wants to know exactly when and where they open sensitive material. These are people who actually do have the right to look at the document, mind you.
The DRM being offered by Microsoft is supposed to handle that exact problem. From the website posted in the recommendation from the grandparent, "Information workers can choose from a variety of usage rights to define exactly how the recipient can use the information and for how long. Users can define who can open, modify, print, forward and/or take other actions with the information." That is indeed snake oil. If I'm being bribed to show this "confidential" information to someone else, and the DRM is preventing me from printing it out or forwarding the document, or perhaps even taking a screen shot, I can still go out, get my digital camera, and take some pictures of my monitor which I can send out.
The only solution to the problem at hand only giving access to these documents to employees you know you can trust. If somebody does break that trust, you sue the hell out of said employee, but there's nothing else that will really work.
Not trying to be a smart-arse (for a change), but doesn't your neighbour's painting his house purple and thereby devaluing your house therefore extend onto your property?
Things people do affect me all the time, but I don't have a right to tell them not to do it unless they actually physically do it with my stuff (or to me). For example, day traders dumping a stock I own is devaluing my property, but they're doing it by exercising a right to their property (their stock).
Wait 'till your neighbor paints his house purple. Or has 100 cats.
My neighbor has the right to paint his house any color he wishes, including purple. I welcome his creativity, and no I don't care if it devalues my home. My right to make a profit in my investment ends at his property.
As far as having 100 cats, as long as those cats are not coming into my property, not being mistreated, and as long as it's not violating any municipal/city/state/federal health codes, it's none of my business either.
Despite the movie's message, in the end he wasn't fit enough to go, his heart wasn't strong enough as shown in the treadmill scene...
That wasn't his heart defect cropping up. That was him pushing himself farther than he could (he was running for a longer period of time than his fitness level should allow). He did this because he had assumed the identity of someone who was a genetic match to become a great athlete (although Jerome apparently didn't have the drive to achieve his potential). He didn't have a heart attack and need hospitalization, he was just completely and utterly out of breath. Notice he didn't have any problems with his heart when he was swimming against his brother. He was probably in the best physical shape he could be, but it wasn't enough to match what was expected of Jerome. That's normal. If I had spent the last 15 years training and running, I still wouldn't be a match for an olympic athlete. Training is a necessary but insufficient condition to compete at that level: you need to be born with something too.
They made a point in the movie of describing Vincent's screening as coming up with a *high percentage chance* of heart failure, and not an actual health problem. He was willing to accept the risk, but nobody else was willing to invest in him. The risk-aversion of insurance companies was mentioned when Vincent's mother was unable to enroll him in a school (or child care, I don't remember).
In addition, becoming a gattaca astronaut was probably a bit like becoming a NASA astronaut: a lot of people want to do it, so the competition is fierce enough that they get to pay you a comparatively low salary and the job requirements are far above and beyond what should be needed to determine if you're qualified for the job. As long as we have so many applicants to choose from, let's go ahead and get the person capable of being an olympic athlete. He's never going to have to run a marathon in space, but why the hell not pick the best?
In short, Vincent is just going to have to exercise enough to not lose too much muscle and bone mass while in space. His eyesight isn't an issue as long as he took his contacts with him. What's going to get used the most is his brain, so he can conduct the scientific mission he was sent for. He proved he was qualified in that area when he designed the mission he was going on (without a single mistake, which apparently was unusual enough to warrant mention by his boss).
No. Valve has stated multiple times, that THEY will release the "crack". If the publihser does it, it is not braeking the law in my opinion.
Is that a clause in the EULA when you sign up for Steam? If so, is there another clause that says, "we can change this EULA at any time"? Will that also work for games distributed on Steam which have addition DRM (because Valve apparently aren't capable of saying, "it's our way or you don't use our store" and they allow for additional DRM if the publisher wants to use it).
You're accepting their PR department's word about what's going to happen if they go bankrupt? You don't think that under those circumstances they might be too busy worrying about their stock to waste resources telling their programmers to release a steam-deactivator?
For example, I love the idea of Sherlock Holmes games but often they devolve into a laborious click frenzy where you start investigating every object in the environment in the hope that it will be somehow relevant...I think the most successful adventure games are those that can make their world seem at once complex and immersive yet still easy to navigate and explore without becoming an exercise in endless clicking frustration.
I have fond memories of King's Quest VI because of that. It was a graphical, "click on stuff" game, but at the same time, you didn't just click everywhere around the screen in the hopes something would be useful. Things that you were meant to interact with were always obvious: the puzzle wasn't finding things for your inventory, the puzzle was about discovering what to do with things you obviously needed to interact with.
The only thing they could have done better was to remove the DRM that was common at the time. I don't know how many hours I spent trying to find the clues in the game I needed to climb the cliffs, only to finally resort to looking at the manual and discovering the answers were there. It's annoying to have a puzzle that is not really a puzzle, but rather just a way to be sure you had a copy of the manual, and therefore not a copied disc. Because it's really hard to make a copy of the relevant parts of the manual, I suppose.
Why is that article better than the one directly from the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy link where the research was conducted?
Roland stopped linking to his own page a long time ago, so I don't really get why there's any hatred left. I actually never really got why there was any hate to begin with, but now there's really no excuse.
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And "fucking" is considered profanity by most everybody, including the people who use it. Although I find it funny that you link the post to prove that you didn't use profanity when it's right there in that final sentence.
Fair enough, I completely fucking missed that.
Your first post was highly combative and dismissive of the parent posted for not wanting to be roped into playing phone tech support for his family, friends, and their immediate circle.
What exactly about my original post was combative? And what about the parent I replied to was about not wanting to play tech support for his family.
Your first reply to me was more of the same with the added civility of profanity.
My first reply to you was absolutely devoid of any profanity (unless you consider "ridiculous" to be profanity, and that would be ridiculous. It also added no additional tones to your own, unless you consider replacing the word "unreasonable" with "ridiculous" to be more combative than what you sent me.
My second reply to you was a result of frustration, and I did apologize for that. However, you really do have issues with reading comprehension. The parent I was replying to was not saying anything about trying to not be roped into tech support to his family (and I wasnÂt at all combative against him). The post I replied to (which did include profanity, not that I care) was making the point that when somebody in a field about computers doesn't know something about another field about computers, they should just accept they don't know anything about it, and an outsider shouldn't think he is a moron because of it. Read the parent of his post.
Basically, you misinterpreted all my posts, you misinterpreted the post I was replying to...and you apparently got offended by a supposed "combative tone" because I threw back at you the same words you threw at me. I know you have to be trolling for my responses, but by this point I'm actually having fun with this.
Personal attacks aside. I was just saying that you probably had seen one, even if you didn't realize it.
If you want to rewrite history, whatever. Your original post didn't say "you probably saw one, but didn't realize it." It criticized my "attempt at information gathering" and "unreasonable assumptions." My reply to that was entirely civil...all I said that wasn't an explanation of what I thought you misunderstood was that you made some ridiculous assumptions yourself while criticizing me for making them. You can't exactly claim to be offended for hearing the same words right back at you.
Your reply to that was some weird insult that I demonstrate "the worst stereotypes in computer people" and used as evidence another complete misunderstanding of what I was trying to say. I got frustrated and mouthed off when your entire argument was based on misunderstanding every single point I tried to make. I know I'm no novelist, but I've never been so incapable of expressing my thoughts using the English language before in my life. For whatever it's worth, I'm sorry. If you actually have any interest, here's my attempt at a better worded post to convey my original meaning. If you're not interested, you can stop reading right now.
I don't think that people who aren't computer professionals should have a high-level knowledge of computers. I don't get angry when they are ignorant of the subject. As I've said in my original post, I'll gladly (and I used that word) help them the first time they come to me with a problem. At that point, I don't just do it for them, I try to show them how to do it, and I ask them if they have any questions.
I do get annoyed when, after having explained the process for completing a task, people come to me for help for the same task, or an extremely similar task, without performing any attempt to solve the problem on their own first. I don't mind helping them at all if they've first tried it on their own, even if it's the exact same task. If somebody comes to me and says, "I know you showed me how to do this, but I really can't remember this step" I can understand that. My memory isn't perfect either. I want the effort from them first, however. That's the only way they're going to learn.
Here's how the razr comes in. I know it's a phone, I know it doesn't have a setup.exe file to install stuff. You're right that I have absolutely no idea about anything else related to it. However, based on being "a computer guy" I know perfectly well that my previous experience with a variety of other gadgets will allow me to, after playing with the thing for half an hour, figure out how to install something that was obviously meant for an end-user to install. That was a great example of triggers impatience in computer people like me as opposed to others. When I don't know how to do something, I'm not afraid to try to figure it all out using the knowledge that I do have, or try to find via tools I also have (like google).
And that's the important part. I'm not saying I'm smarter than anybody else. If I thought that, I wouldn't be allowed to be pissed off at them, I'd just be using a skill they don't have. I'm saying they are just as capable of figuring it out as I am. Installing an end-user application/game on a phone that doesn't involve doing weird stuff like unlocking it is something that was meant for the end-user to figure out. There are instructions. There are things to click at. I know I can do it. I know they can do it. And when they come to me for help, I want to teach them how to figure that type of stuff on their own, so that they no longer need to be dependent on people like me. It annoys the crap out of me when they don't want to: when they want to be dependent on me, because it's easier than learning how to operate their own computers / phones / vcr's.
Sorry for doubting your obviously huge penis and apparent maturity. Have fun on the job search. Althoug
You can implement something that behaves like an exception in C rather simply.
It was found in driver code. Part of the goal of driver code is to be as lean and mean as possible
He failed. In the function in question he had the number of days since Jan 1, 1980. At the end of the loop, he was supposed to have the number of years since 1980 + the number of days since the beginning of the current year. His solution was to iterate the year beginning from 1980, check to see if it's a leap year, then subtract 365 or 366 days accordingly. The loop would supposedly continue until the desired state is achieved but, because of the bug, became an infinite loop at the end of leap years.
Not only was his function not "lean and mean" but it actually gets more expensive to run every year that passes :)
I'm also curious as to why 1980 is the epoch, but that's not as important.
They've used one form of a goto that's actually quite readable and useful. Would you rather have:
Neither. I'd rather throw an exception and perform the cleanup when catching said exception.
And you have obviously had little to no idea since you assumed there would be a setup.exe type thing.
Oh my god, you are retarded.
I'm not sure how you passed your high school's reading comprehension section in your exit exam, or assuming you didn't, how you got a software developer job without even a high school diploma, but let me break it all down for you:
"I have never seen one" is much more likely to mean, "have never physically seen one" than it is to mean "I have no idea what it is." In fact, if you tell me that you have seen the space shuttle, and then later tell me that you meant that you saw it on tv, and not actually in real life, you're a fucking moron. Oh wait, we already know that you are.
Second, the post was divided into two parts. Part a...I could figure out how to install stuff even without having any experience with the device in question. Part b, people are unwilling to use their previously acquired experience to help them figure out new experiences.
In other words, there were two separate, unrelated, examples in that post and the only thing in common between them is that the word "install" was used in both.
Unless they used a Whopper wrapper in the attack, it's a little hard to see where you are going with that whole train of thought there in comparing actions totally unrelated to the attack to actions participating in the attack.
Actually, the train of thought is just as valid. The photographs weren't part of the attack, they were part of the planning for the attack. By themselves, they were harmless.
You could say that anything that helps the attack should be restricted, but then we get back to the eating and sleeping issues. If the terrorists had been starving and sleep deprived, they wouldn't have been able to pull off the attack.
Basically, a lot of things can give you an edge when performing an illegal activity. Your above-average intelligence (do we need to register people with high IQ with the government?), the layout knowledge you have of the building you work at (do we need to start frisking store employees everyday when they leave work because they are in a better position to steal than clients who show up at the store?)...You can't make the tools illegal (yes, that includes guns), you can only make the action illegal. You should always be free to take pictures, but if you perform a terrorist act to use those pictures you can be prosecuted for performing the terrorist act (and no, not for 'using pictures in a terrorist act' we don't need more stupid laws that make something illegal when there's already a law that makes the important part illegal).
So science journals should start putting Martha Stewart recipes in them; I mean I'm sure the people that read Science enjoy food too.
Slashdot isn't a science journal, it's a blog. In addition, "nerds" have quite a lot of tastes
I started coming to this site because it was full of nerdy goodness. It's turned into, at best, a mediocre tech site...
Nobody has the right to force you to keep reading the site. You don't have the right to tell them not to post stories that others enjoy just because you feel slashdot is not an appropriate venue. Filter the front page via your preferences, or quit slashdot, but don't waste your time going to an article you supposedly don't care about and posting about how much it sucks. That's just pathetic.
Or am I just getting old? GET OFF MY LAWN!
Slashdot isn't your lawn.
You've seen a RAZR
And that's one thing that annoys software developers like me. It's not that "computer guys" don't know anything, it's that they assume they know more than what they do and make unreasonable assumptions about what to do before they even make the most cursory attempt at information gathering.
You're not much better. You make ridiculous assumptions when you hear/read something that has two possible meanings.
I never said I didn't know what a RAZR was. I said I've never seen one in the sense of touching / messing with it / having installed something on it. I honestly have no idea what the interface of the thing looks like, I don't go around looking at my friend's phones. I don't even know what phones they have, one of them might have a razr.
Still, even though I don't know how to install a game on the thing, I'm pretty sure that if it has games to be installed, I could either figure it out by messing with the interface, or perform a google search and figure it out. That's what I do with things I don't know how to do all the fucking time, and things get accomplished without me bothering somebody else.
I bet you love when people ask you, "The computer guy" what you think about some computer topic you know nothing about. Obviously since you know about computers, you can help them install the game their kid downloaded for their RAZR, right?
Yes. I've never even seen a RAZR, but I know for certain that I could figure out how to install said game.
That's one thing that annoys a lot of us "computer guys". It's not that people don't know something. It's that people don't even try to figure out things they don't know on their own before asking stupid questions. If they come to me for help with installing a program on their computer I gladly help and show them how it's done. When they come to me a second time for help on installing a different program on their computer, I wonder why the hell they didn't think of trying the same pattern I showed them the last time. Find the setup.exe, and click "next" when told to. It's the same goddamn process, try it before assuming it's too complicated.
I'm the same way. I mean, like, take my computer, for instance. I want to be in complete control over everything that it does, so I use it as a stand for my abacus.
You can post to slashdot using an abacus? You've got to teach me the mad skillz :)
It's the hip new anti-environmentalist meme. Anything that is supposed to lessen emissions actually increases them because you have to build it!
It's not even that, it's just irrational BS. I'm far from an environmentalist and yet I use CFLs. Why? They last longer before burning out (in most cases) and make for a cheaper electricity bill.
Sun has a history of not playing nicely with other projects, however. A real culture of "not invented here"
I think I'm siding with sun here. It's not like they're asking that the code not be open source, they just want it dual licensed. Not to mention the fact that kohei had already signed the JCA, and then decided he no longer wanted to.
Legally, if Sun wanted to be asses, they could have made their solver a fork of the code Kohei had already submitted, since he had already signed the JCA (and they would be totally in their rights to do it). Instead, they decided to avoid the ensuing controversy and accusations by just writing a new one from scratch. They went out of their way to make sure nobody gets screwed.
More and more, Amazon is doing order processing for others.
I agree their statistics are fishy, but Amazon's profit margin has got to be greater when doing order processing for others than when selling their own warehoused products.
I mean, just how much more are they spending on the infrastructure to handle those orders than they would be spending on the same infrastructure to just sell their stuff? It's essentially free for them, they just get paid for stuff they needed to have up anyway (databases / bandwidth)
he wants A to be in the headquater, B to be an employee in Omaha, and C is some person doing industrial spying in Russia or China.
Almost. Actually, he wants A to be in the headquarters, B to an employee in Omaha, and C to be some person doing industrial spying who has recruited the help of B
His question indicates that his company is being accused of showing confidential documents from one of his clients to a competitor of said client. Then he goes on to say that he can't be sure what all of the company employees are doing with the documetns, so he wants to know exactly when and where they open sensitive material. These are people who actually do have the right to look at the document, mind you.
The DRM being offered by Microsoft is supposed to handle that exact problem. From the website posted in the recommendation from the grandparent, "Information workers can choose from a variety of usage rights to define exactly how the recipient can use the information and for how long. Users can define who can open, modify, print, forward and/or take other actions with the information." That is indeed snake oil. If I'm being bribed to show this "confidential" information to someone else, and the DRM is preventing me from printing it out or forwarding the document, or perhaps even taking a screen shot, I can still go out, get my digital camera, and take some pictures of my monitor which I can send out.
The only solution to the problem at hand only giving access to these documents to employees you know you can trust. If somebody does break that trust, you sue the hell out of said employee, but there's nothing else that will really work.
Not trying to be a smart-arse (for a change), but doesn't your neighbour's painting his house purple and thereby devaluing your house therefore extend onto your property?
Things people do affect me all the time, but I don't have a right to tell them not to do it unless they actually physically do it with my stuff (or to me). For example, day traders dumping a stock I own is devaluing my property, but they're doing it by exercising a right to their property (their stock).
rotten, fore-fleshing, low-life...
That would be four-flushing. The term originated in poker.
> The Bathroom.. A universal private reading room.
Reading on the throne leads to hemmoroids.
You're doing it wrong.
Wait 'till your neighbor paints his house purple. Or has 100 cats.
My neighbor has the right to paint his house any color he wishes, including purple. I welcome his creativity, and no I don't care if it devalues my home. My right to make a profit in my investment ends at his property.
As far as having 100 cats, as long as those cats are not coming into my property, not being mistreated, and as long as it's not violating any municipal/city/state/federal health codes, it's none of my business either.
Despite the movie's message, in the end he wasn't fit enough to go, his heart wasn't strong enough as shown in the treadmill scene...
That wasn't his heart defect cropping up. That was him pushing himself farther than he could (he was running for a longer period of time than his fitness level should allow). He did this because he had assumed the identity of someone who was a genetic match to become a great athlete (although Jerome apparently didn't have the drive to achieve his potential). He didn't have a heart attack and need hospitalization, he was just completely and utterly out of breath. Notice he didn't have any problems with his heart when he was swimming against his brother. He was probably in the best physical shape he could be, but it wasn't enough to match what was expected of Jerome. That's normal. If I had spent the last 15 years training and running, I still wouldn't be a match for an olympic athlete. Training is a necessary but insufficient condition to compete at that level: you need to be born with something too.
They made a point in the movie of describing Vincent's screening as coming up with a *high percentage chance* of heart failure, and not an actual health problem. He was willing to accept the risk, but nobody else was willing to invest in him. The risk-aversion of insurance companies was mentioned when Vincent's mother was unable to enroll him in a school (or child care, I don't remember).
In addition, becoming a gattaca astronaut was probably a bit like becoming a NASA astronaut: a lot of people want to do it, so the competition is fierce enough that they get to pay you a comparatively low salary and the job requirements are far above and beyond what should be needed to determine if you're qualified for the job. As long as we have so many applicants to choose from, let's go ahead and get the person capable of being an olympic athlete. He's never going to have to run a marathon in space, but why the hell not pick the best?
In short, Vincent is just going to have to exercise enough to not lose too much muscle and bone mass while in space. His eyesight isn't an issue as long as he took his contacts with him. What's going to get used the most is his brain, so he can conduct the scientific mission he was sent for. He proved he was qualified in that area when he designed the mission he was going on (without a single mistake, which apparently was unusual enough to warrant mention by his boss).
No. Valve has stated multiple times, that THEY will release the "crack". If the publihser does it, it is not braeking the law in my opinion.
Is that a clause in the EULA when you sign up for Steam? If so, is there another clause that says, "we can change this EULA at any time"? Will that also work for games distributed on Steam which have addition DRM (because Valve apparently aren't capable of saying, "it's our way or you don't use our store" and they allow for additional DRM if the publisher wants to use it).
You're accepting their PR department's word about what's going to happen if they go bankrupt? You don't think that under those circumstances they might be too busy worrying about their stock to waste resources telling their programmers to release a steam-deactivator?
Having to look up stuff in the manual is DRM?
I was being facetious by calling it DRM, but it was the copy protection of the day, it was also annoying, and it was also ineffective.
For example, I love the idea of Sherlock Holmes games but often they devolve into a laborious click frenzy where you start investigating every object in the environment in the hope that it will be somehow relevant...I think the most successful adventure games are those that can make their world seem at once complex and immersive yet still easy to navigate and explore without becoming an exercise in endless clicking frustration.
I have fond memories of King's Quest VI because of that. It was a graphical, "click on stuff" game, but at the same time, you didn't just click everywhere around the screen in the hopes something would be useful. Things that you were meant to interact with were always obvious: the puzzle wasn't finding things for your inventory, the puzzle was about discovering what to do with things you obviously needed to interact with.
The only thing they could have done better was to remove the DRM that was common at the time. I don't know how many hours I spent trying to find the clues in the game I needed to climb the cliffs, only to finally resort to looking at the manual and discovering the answers were there. It's annoying to have a puzzle that is not really a puzzle, but rather just a way to be sure you had a copy of the manual, and therefore not a copied disc. Because it's really hard to make a copy of the relevant parts of the manual, I suppose.
Almost got me, there, Roland. Astronomy.com Linky
Why is that article better than the one directly from the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy link where the research was conducted?
Roland stopped linking to his own page a long time ago, so I don't really get why there's any hatred left. I actually never really got why there was any hate to begin with, but now there's really no excuse.