Meh, if that's your goal:
1. Code a flashlight app, stick an ad in it and send all ad revenue to "the third world".
2. Stick a green cap with a feather in it on your head and call yourself a modern-day frickin' Robin Hood
3. ????
4. Non-profit!
In fact, if it's not already, this should be a feature of iAd. Non-profits/charities should be able to sign up, and anyone who wants to support them can write iPhone apps, select their favourite charity and have proceeds sent direct to them, like you can do with auctions on eBay. Allow searching on "Charity Apps" and watch as a millions of people with more money than sense rush to buy and rate charity app versions of ones they already own so they can impress their friends. Brown badge to the first fart app for colon cancer. Blurry badge for the first flashlight app for myopia.
This is very disappointing. Perhaps there's some hidden code in their mission statement? Maybe? Or maybe there's another super-secret message that has the same MD5SUM?? Something?:( This is worse than the time Santa told me the Easter Bunny didn't exist.
It confuses the discussion because while the licence fee is technically a tax for the purpose of collection, what the BBC (Trust) ultimately decides to do with the licence payers' money has very little to do with the government. The word "tax" has strong connotations and implies a much more direct government involvement in the output of the BBC than is the case.
Ultimately, dragging the BBC into this discussion benefits no-one anyway, because there's no comparison. The BBC are in the business of public service broadcasting, entertainment, news etc., when they add support for the iPhone to iPlayer, it's somewhat expected, because it's an obvious extension of their service and is well within their remit. Many people will use it because the BBC has such a large amount of popular content. When the government builds an iPhone app for the sake of it, telling people how to change a tyre FFS, it's seen to be the waste of resources it is.
It's incredibly disingenuous to liken the licence fee to income tax or VAT. Choosing not to watch live television transmissions is a hell of a lot easier than living off the grid or on benefits. I can't even imagine how difficult it would be to avoid paying any VAT.
An LCD panel on the robot with a touch screen interface?
Or maybe voice recognition is the way forward:
"Hey metal man, get me a Trans Galactic Gargle-Blaster!"
"Here I am, brain the size of a planet and it's 'Get me a drink!'. You know I have a pain in the all the diodes down my left side, don't you?"
"R2, get me an apple-tini!"
"bleep-bloop wheee, bleep"
"What? Just get me the damn drink!"
Actually, that may be asking for trouble..anyway...insisting on a web interface requires that the network is up. What kind of requirement is that for a metal man-servant?
MS Tools can be greatly enabling, but it depends what you're doing and where you're coming from...
I've started a couple small websites, and I always turn to MS's tools first being the easiest solution, but it always becomes a drawn out question of "Do I spend a huge amount of time doing coding and technical work to get the site I want or invest a good chunk of cash into Microsoft tools to get a great system out the door much quicker?"
The problem (for Microsoft) is that there are a lot of people who would say: "Do I spend a huge amount of cash on Microsoft tools to get the site I want, or invest a good chunk of time on Free tools to get a great system out the door much cheaper?". And of course, the benefit of taking that view is that if your small website takes off, and you suddenly have to scale massively, you don't have to spend a huge chunk of change on OS/Database licensing.
And that is ignoring the fact that, for a "small website", I really don't see how time spent on coding and technical effort could be reduced enough such that it offset the financial cost, even taking into account the benefit of being quicker to market. Fair enough, if all you know is ASP/C#, then you can do it quicker in those languages than if you had to learn PHP/Ruby, but the converse is also true, nullifying your point somewhat. Can a.Net developer push a web app out faster than a PHP/Ruby developer?
I take your point on the AD/Exchange/Office/Communicator stack, because I think you're right, there's not a lot currently in the FOSS world that can compete, but that's about appealing to businesses and their SysAdmins. It's possible to develop FOSS using FOSS under Windows, so there's no reason why developers should have to miss out on those productivity products just because they aren't developing for Windows using Visual Studio. Also, if the developer is involved in a small 1-10 person start-up, the benefit of that stack is reduced substantially...
Must depend on the college/university or programme? My university (in England) had the usual MS.doc requirements for a lot of assignment submissions, but we also had a module that was called something like "windows programming" in which we were gradually exposed to various windowing toolkits in Linux, culminating in a piece of coursework where we had to develop a relatively simple "paint" program with shapes/colours etc. using Qt.
Your kids will not have been indoctrinated into using only MS products, with no effort at all, they could use OpenOffice, and given the price difference, they may well choose the latter. Maybe Microsoft needs more exclusive access...something like replacing "English Literature", with "Word", "Art" with "MSPaint" and "Mathematics" with "Excel"...
Perhaps you mean Albert Einstein? He was exceptionally gifted in mathematics and physics, from an early age, and studied both at the Polytechnic in Zurich. If you mean to imply that Einstein was just some schmo with only grade-school level ability in maths then you are barking up the wrong tree. You could also say that he was fairly "indoctrinated", in that he had knowledge of current (har-dy-har;) Physics theories, so your implication that ignorance of prevailing theories freed him to embrace novel ideas more readily is also on somewhat shaky ground.
Also, your car analogy is pitiful, even for slashdot. A driving instructor can teach someone to drive without knowing all the engineering behind it, but his students aren't expected to know how to design cars at the end of his tuition. If they are capable of learning engineering outside of their driving lessons, then what benefit really did the driving instructor provide?
I do see some value in this middle-ground, teaching more advanced Physics concepts in a way that high-school educated people could understand. Your assertion that it is possible to teach Physics concepts without backing it up with maths is, I believe correct, and I was willing to defend your point of view but I think you pushed it too far. GP is correct, in order to describe any new theory they may come up with, based on the "physics"/philosophical education they've received, they will have to learn to back their physics up with maths. Which a math-less physics education will not give them. They could come up with some fantastical new theory, that "dark matter" is actually made of meringue and toffee, but unless they can back it up with maths, how can they expect to be taken seriously?
Similarly, they could go on to teach a math-less physics course, but without maths, their students would be just as encumbered as they were. Like the driving instructor's students, they would be able to teach what they had learned, but no more.
The state dance will be changed from West-Coast Swing dancing to the Drunk Uncle Shuffle over swing dance accident concerns.
Srsly. Are there any geologists here who can suggest a rock that isn't dangerous to breathe? Oh, and is this the same state that has just reduced state-workers pay to minimum wage? Did you guys not learn from the last time you elected an actor to public office? Hell in a handbasket.
Sorry, but I don't blame people for pirating $1,000 software because unless it's software that allows you to print money, NO program is worth that much.
Sorry, but if they're using his software in a professional capacity and are in the black as a result, that's as close to "printing money" as you can legally get. If they couldn't make a living without his software then they should just suck it up. It's a business expense and they should pay the price. They could even try and negotiate with him on the cost of licensing if they felt that $1,000 was too much. After all, a window cleaner wouldn't balk at the cost of a ladder and a courier wouldn't balk at the cost of a truck....
You say "NO program is worth that much". Spoken like someone with no concept of economics. You are wrong. If you're using a $1,000 software product and your use of it generates more than $1,000 in sales, savings or increased productivity then it obviously is worth that much. If you don't think AC's software product is worth $1000, then why not just pay someone to re-write it?
Your MS example is valid, in that collective bargaining could force a producer to reconsider the cost of their product, but it's a straw-man and is therefore irrelevant in the context of this discussion. If there's a free and legal alternative to AC's software then people have the choice to use that instead, and why aren't they? It's AC's prerogative to charge what he likes and if a competitor can write an alternative and sell it/support it for less, then AC can deal with the consequences. However, he shouldn't have to deal with a bunch of obnoxious "professionals" who are happy to make money off the back of his work without compensating him at all. If the professionals pirating AC's software don't really need it, then why are they pirating it?
The only reason insane prices like that exist for software is because the people running businesses are morons.
I really don't think that's the only reason, do you? There are very many software products for which no appropriate free alternative exists, and there are many software products for which people are willing to pay in order to get additional functionality or support that does not exist in the free/cheaper alternative. E.g. Photoshop/Gimp, Maya 3D/Blender, Oracle/MySQL Enterprise/MySQL Community edition. You can whine that MySQL Community does everything that Oracle 11g does until the cows come home, but it doesn't necessarily make it so. Does choosing Oracle over MySQL make someone a moron if they really do need the additional features/support? No.
I had high hopes for The Thing but there were a number of parts that break immersion. The most memorable are when you suspect a person has "turned" and administer a blood test, only to discover that he's still human, and then a minute later (or a few steps later), despite them never being out of your sight, they turn and become a Thing, because the story needs it.
If something is "obviously wrong" then it shouldn't take "YEARS" to disprove it, should it?
Also...wouldn't any mathematical proof that would take "YEARS" to disprove still have some value? Perhaps showing new approaches to a problem?
They may be more likely to drive drunk and therefore be subjected to a Field Sobriety Test? However, from that Wikipedia article: "recite all or part of the alphabet (a common myth is that the alphabet must be recited backwards, however, this is never done during an FST, as many sober people are unable to do this.)."
Wow. You are so insightful! Of course you can say whatever the hell you want to if you don't care whether or not it's the truth. It's incredibly disingenuous to say that they've been "sitting on" or letting Lemmings "stagnate":
The popularity of the game led to development of numerous ports to other systems, including most recently ports to the PlayStation Portable, PlayStation 2, and PlayStation 3 in 2006 and 2007, and the creation of several sequels.
How do you or Mobile1UP know that Sony wasn't planning on porting Lemmings to iPhone/iPad/Android? Firstly, you don't. Secondly, it's irrelevant! It's not a condition of copyright, patent or trademark law that you have to make your work available on all platforms past, present and future. The intended purpose of patent and copyright systems is indeed to provide incentive to produce, and therefore advance the state of the art, or enrich culture. However, Lemmings on the Amiga did that. Job done. They (now Sony) have copyright in the original game. That's what they get for developing the game (or rather..buying the developer of the game).
Besides which...you can buy a Lemmings game on a current generation console! How is that letting the property stagnate? And how in the name of Zeus' butthole did you get modded insightful? To have the bare-faced cheek to rip off a game, which, with the exception of a single-screen disclaimer that it's not authorised by SCEE, is indistinguishable from the original Lemmings, and then to try and distribute it through the Apple App-Store is possibly the most retarded thing I've ever seen since Sony tried to install rootkits on their customer's machines. We all love to support "the little guy" against "evil corporations" but this was the single most obvious outcome since that guy tried to play Russian Roulette with a semi-automatic pistol.
Nothing is stopping Mobile1UP from making their own version of a "Lemmings" game, with their own graphics resources/levels and their own music etc. Do you think they'd be happy if someone came along and made such an exact copy of one of their original games and started distributing it through the App-Store?
If you're throwing money away, never to see it again, perhaps you could send some my way? Look at this screenshot, posted in the original 36-hour port story. I would love to see him argue that his use of the word "Lemmings" was not intended to infringe on their trademark. He didn't set up a dry-cleaners and call it "Lemmings", he did a direct port of "their" game and has tried to publish it to the iPhone app store. What did he think was going to happen?
Also...seriously...how often do you use "lemmings" in everyday conversation? I honestly can't remember the last time I used it in the context of referring to the animal, or in the context of describing herd mentality. (Sheep fit much better once you know the truth about lemmings). In fact the last time I even heard the word "lemming" (outside of the context of the video-game) was on the show QI.
What I find most amusing is that he states:
DISCLAIMER:
"iPhone" and "iPod Touch" are registered trademarks of Apple, Inc.
as if Apple are going to try and sue him for mentioning their products, yet all the while he flagrantly copies/reproduces SCEE's IP.
Firstly, Warcraft 3 isn't the only game and not all games run, or run well, under Wine/Cedega. Some are newer games, but also some older games.
Better if you ignore the first part of your sentence and keep the second:
What market is there for a company selling ports of decade-old games for $40-$50 each?
Answer is...not big. Not big.
Though, in their defence, I'm pretty sure that, for example, Postal 2 was up there on or shortly after the Windows release date.
If it was available at the same price point, I would rather buy the native Linux version of a game than have to reboot to get at a Windows partition, or run it in Wine.
Slightly out of context, but it reminds me of a quote from The Russia House:
I don't like lists, they say too much about the people who write them
For instance: "quiche", "Furby", "sardine", "snuffle", "jaws", "Halibut"
Why are the TLAs worried about quiche? Or is it "fissionable quiche"? (That part of the list on theregister seems to be missing some commas)
Maybe the NSA/GCHQ are worried they'll employ a quiche-eating programmer.;)
Someone breaks into your house but doesn't take anything of value. You would think that's ok because the intrusion was largely harmless?
No offence, but what? "breaks into"?
If your home is broken into, it is a personal violation and can be a traumatic event, even if nothing was taken, that is not under debate. This man trespassed on a computer network, owned by a government. If a SysAdmin truly feels traumatised by someone trespassing on a computer network he's paid to keep safe then he shouldn't be a SysAdmin for the DoD
This is nothing like B&E, it's like trespass. It's comparable to a man trespassing on a lawn at the Pentagon that is being kept safe by an incompetent security guard. Does that security guard feel as violated as a B&E victim, or does he feel embarrassed and frustrated when he eventually catches him? Trespass is a crime, as is doing so in the context of computer networks, but if you're so petty that you would subject a man to years behind bars with murderers and rapists for doing it, you're a sick, disgusting little puppy indeed. As are the prosecutors in the U.S. who are forcing this issue, and the previous Labour government who didn't intervene in this completely and utterly farcical situation.
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I have success with this method but YMMV. Or else run windows in a VM? If you only need it to run IE, you should have no worries whatsoever.
Which is great advice if you do all your work on publicly available websites.
Meh, if that's your goal:
1. Code a flashlight app, stick an ad in it and send all ad revenue to "the third world".
2. Stick a green cap with a feather in it on your head and call yourself a modern-day frickin' Robin Hood
3. ????
4. Non-profit!
In fact, if it's not already, this should be a feature of iAd. Non-profits/charities should be able to sign up, and anyone who wants to support them can write iPhone apps, select their favourite charity and have proceeds sent direct to them, like you can do with auctions on eBay. Allow searching on "Charity Apps" and watch as a millions of people with more money than sense rush to buy and rate charity app versions of ones they already own so they can impress their friends. Brown badge to the first fart app for colon cancer. Blurry badge for the first flashlight app for myopia.
This is very disappointing. Perhaps there's some hidden code in their mission statement? Maybe? Or maybe there's another super-secret message that has the same MD5SUM?? Something? :( This is worse than the time Santa told me the Easter Bunny didn't exist.
It confuses the discussion because while the licence fee is technically a tax for the purpose of collection, what the BBC (Trust) ultimately decides to do with the licence payers' money has very little to do with the government. The word "tax" has strong connotations and implies a much more direct government involvement in the output of the BBC than is the case.
Ultimately, dragging the BBC into this discussion benefits no-one anyway, because there's no comparison. The BBC are in the business of public service broadcasting, entertainment, news etc., when they add support for the iPhone to iPlayer, it's somewhat expected, because it's an obvious extension of their service and is well within their remit. Many people will use it because the BBC has such a large amount of popular content. When the government builds an iPhone app for the sake of it, telling people how to change a tyre FFS, it's seen to be the waste of resources it is.
It's incredibly disingenuous to liken the licence fee to income tax or VAT. Choosing not to watch live television transmissions is a hell of a lot easier than living off the grid or on benefits. I can't even imagine how difficult it would be to avoid paying any VAT.
Are you serious?
An LCD panel on the robot with a touch screen interface? Or maybe voice recognition is the way forward:
"Hey metal man, get me a Trans Galactic Gargle-Blaster!"
"Here I am, brain the size of a planet and it's 'Get me a drink!'. You know I have a pain in the all the diodes down my left side, don't you?"
"R2, get me an apple-tini!"
"bleep-bloop wheee, bleep"
"What? Just get me the damn drink!"
Actually, that may be asking for trouble..anyway...insisting on a web interface requires that the network is up. What kind of requirement is that for a metal man-servant?
I've started a couple small websites, and I always turn to MS's tools first being the easiest solution, but it always becomes a drawn out question of "Do I spend a huge amount of time doing coding and technical work to get the site I want or invest a good chunk of cash into Microsoft tools to get a great system out the door much quicker?"
The problem (for Microsoft) is that there are a lot of people who would say: "Do I spend a huge amount of cash on Microsoft tools to get the site I want, or invest a good chunk of time on Free tools to get a great system out the door much cheaper?". And of course, the benefit of taking that view is that if your small website takes off, and you suddenly have to scale massively, you don't have to spend a huge chunk of change on OS/Database licensing.
.Net developer push a web app out faster than a PHP/Ruby developer?
And that is ignoring the fact that, for a "small website", I really don't see how time spent on coding and technical effort could be reduced enough such that it offset the financial cost, even taking into account the benefit of being quicker to market. Fair enough, if all you know is ASP/C#, then you can do it quicker in those languages than if you had to learn PHP/Ruby, but the converse is also true, nullifying your point somewhat. Can a
I take your point on the AD/Exchange/Office/Communicator stack, because I think you're right, there's not a lot currently in the FOSS world that can compete, but that's about appealing to businesses and their SysAdmins. It's possible to develop FOSS using FOSS under Windows, so there's no reason why developers should have to miss out on those productivity products just because they aren't developing for Windows using Visual Studio. Also, if the developer is involved in a small 1-10 person start-up, the benefit of that stack is reduced substantially...
Must depend on the college/university or programme? My university (in England) had the usual MS .doc requirements for a lot of assignment submissions, but we also had a module that was called something like "windows programming" in which we were gradually exposed to various windowing toolkits in Linux, culminating in a piece of coursework where we had to develop a relatively simple "paint" program with shapes/colours etc. using Qt.
Your kids will not have been indoctrinated into using only MS products, with no effort at all, they could use OpenOffice, and given the price difference, they may well choose the latter. Maybe Microsoft needs more exclusive access...something like replacing "English Literature", with "Word", "Art" with "MSPaint" and "Mathematics" with "Excel"...
now what was the name of that patent clerk again?
Perhaps you mean Albert Einstein? He was exceptionally gifted in mathematics and physics, from an early age, and studied both at the Polytechnic in Zurich. If you mean to imply that Einstein was just some schmo with only grade-school level ability in maths then you are barking up the wrong tree. You could also say that he was fairly "indoctrinated", in that he had knowledge of current (har-dy-har ;) Physics theories, so your implication that ignorance of prevailing theories freed him to embrace novel ideas more readily is also on somewhat shaky ground.
Also, your car analogy is pitiful, even for slashdot. A driving instructor can teach someone to drive without knowing all the engineering behind it, but his students aren't expected to know how to design cars at the end of his tuition. If they are capable of learning engineering outside of their driving lessons, then what benefit really did the driving instructor provide?
I do see some value in this middle-ground, teaching more advanced Physics concepts in a way that high-school educated people could understand. Your assertion that it is possible to teach Physics concepts without backing it up with maths is, I believe correct, and I was willing to defend your point of view but I think you pushed it too far. GP is correct, in order to describe any new theory they may come up with, based on the "physics"/philosophical education they've received, they will have to learn to back their physics up with maths. Which a math-less physics education will not give them. They could come up with some fantastical new theory, that "dark matter" is actually made of meringue and toffee, but unless they can back it up with maths, how can they expect to be taken seriously?
Similarly, they could go on to teach a math-less physics course, but without maths, their students would be just as encumbered as they were. Like the driving instructor's students, they would be able to teach what they had learned, but no more.
The state animal will be changed from the Grizzly Bear to the newt over bear attack concerns.
The state dance will be changed from West-Coast Swing dancing to the Drunk Uncle Shuffle over swing dance accident concerns.
Srsly. Are there any geologists here who can suggest a rock that isn't dangerous to breathe? Oh, and is this the same state that has just reduced state-workers pay to minimum wage? Did you guys not learn from the last time you elected an actor to public office? Hell in a handbasket.
Sorry, but I don't blame people for pirating $1,000 software because unless it's software that allows you to print money, NO program is worth that much.
Sorry, but if they're using his software in a professional capacity and are in the black as a result, that's as close to "printing money" as you can legally get. If they couldn't make a living without his software then they should just suck it up. It's a business expense and they should pay the price. They could even try and negotiate with him on the cost of licensing if they felt that $1,000 was too much. After all, a window cleaner wouldn't balk at the cost of a ladder and a courier wouldn't balk at the cost of a truck....
You say "NO program is worth that much". Spoken like someone with no concept of economics. You are wrong. If you're using a $1,000 software product and your use of it generates more than $1,000 in sales, savings or increased productivity then it obviously is worth that much. If you don't think AC's software product is worth $1000, then why not just pay someone to re-write it?
Your MS example is valid, in that collective bargaining could force a producer to reconsider the cost of their product, but it's a straw-man and is therefore irrelevant in the context of this discussion. If there's a free and legal alternative to AC's software then people have the choice to use that instead, and why aren't they? It's AC's prerogative to charge what he likes and if a competitor can write an alternative and sell it/support it for less, then AC can deal with the consequences. However, he shouldn't have to deal with a bunch of obnoxious "professionals" who are happy to make money off the back of his work without compensating him at all. If the professionals pirating AC's software don't really need it, then why are they pirating it?
The only reason insane prices like that exist for software is because the people running businesses are morons.
I really don't think that's the only reason, do you? There are very many software products for which no appropriate free alternative exists, and there are many software products for which people are willing to pay in order to get additional functionality or support that does not exist in the free/cheaper alternative. E.g. Photoshop/Gimp, Maya 3D/Blender, Oracle/MySQL Enterprise/MySQL Community edition. You can whine that MySQL Community does everything that Oracle 11g does until the cows come home, but it doesn't necessarily make it so. Does choosing Oracle over MySQL make someone a moron if they really do need the additional features/support? No.
I had high hopes for The Thing but there were a number of parts that break immersion. The most memorable are when you suspect a person has "turned" and administer a blood test, only to discover that he's still human, and then a minute later (or a few steps later), despite them never being out of your sight, they turn and become a Thing, because the story needs it.
If something is "obviously wrong" then it shouldn't take "YEARS" to disprove it, should it?
Also...wouldn't any mathematical proof that would take "YEARS" to disprove still have some value? Perhaps showing new approaches to a problem?
They may be more likely to drive drunk and therefore be subjected to a Field Sobriety Test? However, from that Wikipedia article: "recite all or part of the alphabet (a common myth is that the alphabet must be recited backwards, however, this is never done during an FST, as many sober people are unable to do this.)."
The popularity of the game led to development of numerous ports to other systems, including most recently ports to the PlayStation Portable, PlayStation 2, and PlayStation 3 in 2006 and 2007, and the creation of several sequels.
Source: Wikipedia
How do you or Mobile1UP know that Sony wasn't planning on porting Lemmings to iPhone/iPad/Android? Firstly, you don't. Secondly, it's irrelevant! It's not a condition of copyright, patent or trademark law that you have to make your work available on all platforms past, present and future. The intended purpose of patent and copyright systems is indeed to provide incentive to produce, and therefore advance the state of the art, or enrich culture. However, Lemmings on the Amiga did that. Job done. They (now Sony) have copyright in the original game. That's what they get for developing the game (or rather..buying the developer of the game).
Besides which...you can buy a Lemmings game on a current generation console! How is that letting the property stagnate? And how in the name of Zeus' butthole did you get modded insightful? To have the bare-faced cheek to rip off a game, which, with the exception of a single-screen disclaimer that it's not authorised by SCEE, is indistinguishable from the original Lemmings, and then to try and distribute it through the Apple App-Store is possibly the most retarded thing I've ever seen since Sony tried to install rootkits on their customer's machines. We all love to support "the little guy" against "evil corporations" but this was the single most obvious outcome since that guy tried to play Russian Roulette with a semi-automatic pistol.
Nothing is stopping Mobile1UP from making their own version of a "Lemmings" game, with their own graphics resources/levels and their own music etc. Do you think they'd be happy if someone came along and made such an exact copy of one of their original games and started distributing it through the App-Store?
Also...seriously...how often do you use "lemmings" in everyday conversation? I honestly can't remember the last time I used it in the context of referring to the animal, or in the context of describing herd mentality. (Sheep fit much better once you know the truth about lemmings). In fact the last time I even heard the word "lemming" (outside of the context of the video-game) was on the show QI.
What I find most amusing is that he states:
DISCLAIMER: "iPhone" and "iPod Touch" are registered trademarks of Apple, Inc.
as if Apple are going to try and sue him for mentioning their products, yet all the while he flagrantly copies/reproduces SCEE's IP.
Better if you ignore the first part of your sentence and keep the second:
What market is there for a company selling ports of decade-old games for $40-$50 each?
Answer is...not big. Not big.
Though, in their defence, I'm pretty sure that, for example, Postal 2 was up there on or shortly after the Windows release date.
If it was available at the same price point, I would rather buy the native Linux version of a game than have to reboot to get at a Windows partition, or run it in Wine.
Shouldn't they have picked Sharon instead since she survived Ozzy?
Perhaps, but what insight into the human genome would that provide? Never forget.
I don't like lists, they say too much about the people who write them
For instance: "quiche", "Furby", "sardine", "snuffle", "jaws", "Halibut" ;)
Why are the TLAs worried about quiche? Or is it "fissionable quiche"? (That part of the list on theregister seems to be missing some commas) Maybe the NSA/GCHQ are worried they'll employ a quiche-eating programmer.
"OK, so you think that time flows that way, do you? Interesting."
fewer "feature" additions
I'd settle for zero feature additions and 100% feature retention.
Don't expect too much. You'll love it.
Someone breaks into your house but doesn't take anything of value. You would think that's ok because the intrusion was largely harmless?
No offence, but what? "breaks into"?
If your home is broken into, it is a personal violation and can be a traumatic event, even if nothing was taken, that is not under debate. This man trespassed on a computer network, owned by a government. If a SysAdmin truly feels traumatised by someone trespassing on a computer network he's paid to keep safe then he shouldn't be a SysAdmin for the DoD
This is nothing like B&E, it's like trespass. It's comparable to a man trespassing on a lawn at the Pentagon that is being kept safe by an incompetent security guard. Does that security guard feel as violated as a B&E victim, or does he feel embarrassed and frustrated when he eventually catches him? Trespass is a crime, as is doing so in the context of computer networks, but if you're so petty that you would subject a man to years behind bars with murderers and rapists for doing it, you're a sick, disgusting little puppy indeed. As are the prosecutors in the U.S. who are forcing this issue, and the previous Labour government who didn't intervene in this completely and utterly farcical situation.
Of course, the two groups (Quants & those who play (& succeed) at fantasy football) are not mutually exclusive.