Re:No Pointers?
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Hardcore Java
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Anyway, the entities you manipulate in Java are quite assuredly not pointers.
If people defined their terms, there would be alot fewer arguments in the world. According to the Java specification, Java references are pointers. What you are saying is that Java does not have C style pointers. There are definitions of "pointer" at different levels of granulairty. Java has pointers if using a more generic definition of "pointer".
You don't know how correct you are. This issue came up during DAML development (predecessor to OWL), but I don't think it was ever addressed. This stuff is very unintuitive if you don't have a graduate degree from Stanford
If people actually read the patents, then 90% of the patent stories here would never get posted here.
This is a discussion site. Discussions involving facts are usually much shorter and less interesting than those involving paranoia, Big Brother, and the quest of everyone in a management position to take over the world. Slashdot wouldn't be popular if it weren't dumbed down.
This is still the little arm of Vivendi - you may remember them as the company that used the DMCA to kill bnetd and tried to kill freecraft?
Yeah, but their games are good, so no-one cares. If their games were buggy and sucked, then people would be screaming injustice everytime Blizzard made a move.
If computer techs started pulling the same shit that mechanics have been pulling
You mean there isn't already the image of a crusty overweight guy with facial hair and a too tight t-shirt who grumbles about how stupid everyone is? I've had techs at two different companies try to pull 'mechanic' crap on me. Obviously people like that are a minority, but there are enough around that the stereotyping has long since begun.
Sol is the sun, which is being pulled via chariot by Apollo, who is the God of the sun.
Depends on who you ask. 12. Different authors often wrote conflicting accounts of the same heroes/gods. It's luck as to which ones win out. It's alot like history;)
Usually in Greek/Roman the sun is the god Helios/Sol. Helios is usually the dude in the chariot. Not always though, this stuff is all kinda flaky. Depends on whose make-believe you want to believe.
While it may be illegal to steal source code that is privately held. I don't know that it is illegal to view it once it has been released. Perhaps someone has a more educated viewpoint. But this seems like a scare tactic without much legal standing.
It may or may not be legal, but Microsoft is obviously going to err on the side of it being illegal, especially if they have nothing to lose. Can you blame them?
Windows can't handle that well. It wacks out some of the fonts. The text in some of the standard dialog boxes don't fit into the window. IE looks weird too.
Re:Magnusson Moss Warranty Act
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Don't quote me on this, but even without a lawyer involved, you still need to dump at least a grand. Getting a lawyer and you're at 5-8k minimum. Or something like that. Someone correct me.
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Anyway, the entities you manipulate in Java are quite assuredly not pointers.
If people defined their terms, there would be alot fewer arguments in the world.
According to the Java specification, Java references are pointers. What you are saying is that Java does not have C style pointers. There are definitions of "pointer" at different levels of granulairty. Java has pointers if using a more generic definition of "pointer".
Maybe it's just that this guy saw that movie, and that's why he's complaining.
I didn't see the movie, but the global warming link is plastered all over the media. This guy just sees a good opportunity to push his agenda.
not much else to say than that. seems like a pretty bleak future is ahead if we cant figure this out.... maybe even if we can
This is Slashdot, where all futures are bleak. Kill yourself now (but give me your boxes first)
You don't know how correct you are. This issue came up during DAML development (predecessor to OWL), but I don't think it was ever addressed.
This stuff is very unintuitive if you don't have a graduate degree from Stanford
Speaking of standards compliance...
there ISO
their ISO
it's not there fault.
it's not their fault.
If people actually read the patents, then 90% of the patent stories here would never get posted here.
This is a discussion site. Discussions involving facts are usually much shorter and less interesting than those involving paranoia, Big Brother, and the quest of everyone in a management position to take over the world.
Slashdot wouldn't be popular if it weren't dumbed down.
Ethereal!! Yeah, that's it. Everyone repeat after me. Ethereal!!!
Ummm what was the question again?
This is still the little arm of Vivendi - you may remember them as the company that used the DMCA to kill bnetd and tried to kill freecraft?
Yeah, but their games are good, so no-one cares. If their games were buggy and sucked, then people would be screaming injustice everytime Blizzard made a move.
If computer techs started pulling the same shit that mechanics have been pulling
You mean there isn't already the image of a crusty overweight guy with facial hair and a too tight t-shirt who grumbles about how stupid everyone is?
I've had techs at two different companies try to pull 'mechanic' crap on me. Obviously people like that are a minority, but there are enough around that the stereotyping has long since begun.
Sol is the sun, which is being pulled via chariot by Apollo, who is the God of the sun.
;)
Depends on who you ask. 1 2. Different authors often wrote conflicting accounts of the same heroes/gods. It's luck as to which ones win out. It's alot like history
Usually in Greek/Roman the sun is the god Helios/Sol. Helios is usually the dude in the chariot. Not always though, this stuff is all kinda flaky. Depends on whose make-believe you want to believe.
You got that from here right?
Those are symptoms of Choline deficiency !!! In other words, those are the bad things that could happen when you don't get enough Choline
Nobody understands Windows. I for one don't even want to understand it.
No-one understands Windows, but anyone can use it. Linux is simple, but few can use it.
A certain three letter agency
NSA, CIA, or the Department of FUD?
Did your compensation include Xena tapes and Hot Pockets?
Is Techworld a Drudge spinoff?
While it may be illegal to steal source code that is privately held. I don't know that it is illegal to view it once it has been released. Perhaps someone has a more educated viewpoint. But this seems like a scare tactic without much legal standing.
It may or may not be legal, but Microsoft is obviously going to err on the side of it being illegal, especially if they have nothing to lose. Can you blame them?
I also wish there were a law in the U.S. that for every dollar spent on the military, a dollar had to be spent on education.
If only the world were ruled by the people who sit on their asses and bitch about everythig. What a better place it would be.
For a different point of view, go to Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics. In particular, check out their write-up on Spider Man.
From the link: The bully end up flying horizontally down a hallway.
I think the "Insultingly Stupid Website Grammar" guys need to pay them a visit.
Change the DPI setting to 120 or higher.
Windows can't handle that well. It wacks out some of the fonts. The text in some of the standard dialog boxes don't fit into the window. IE looks weird too.
No 300hp+ cars from the factory
Infiniti FX45: 315HP
WUXGA+ screen, which is 1920x1200 pixels.
Bought one of those as a demo laptop. Problem is, no-one over 40 can read the screen. And those are the people with the money!!
whoops
From the greatest site ever: $2000 without a lawyer.
Don't quote me on this, but even without a lawyer involved, you still need to dump at least a grand. Getting a lawyer and you're at 5-8k minimum. Or something like that.
Someone correct me.
DARPA funded alot of this
Lucas was going to wait longer, but realized if he did it would have to be released on HDDVD and he'd lose the opportunity to sell it to you twice.
He can only sell it to you twice if you choose to buy it twice.