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Hmmm, let me see. First common light doesn't propagate in a straight line, it goes in all directions (module obstacles), so the intensity from a light source decreases with the square of distance. Second a object is visually smaller accoding to the distance, so we can estimate the Earth size from forty light years:
This is the arc in the sky from a disc with Earth's diameter from 40 light years. Roughly this is the fraction of the original energy of the light-wave from Kennedy's murder, it's pretty small, enough to the quantum effects wreck havoc (Heisenberg uncertainty principle affects both momentum/position and energy/time). With all these in mind I can say that the chance of us seeing the scenes from JFK shot in the head is smaller than it becoming some sort of creepy rerun of Friends.
Before you think that is a good thing - think about every advert popping up a dialog box with just the OK button... 'click OK to non-seamlessly display "herbal viagra for u"?
It's better to be asked than hearing "Herbal viagra for you, herbal viagra for you, your little friend will reeeeeaaaly get up!!" twenty times while the flash just show you the visual effects of such drugs.
Not that I pay attention to those...
People living in Dresden, Kobe or Osaka in the next decades didn't have a tendency to develop cancer. Normal bombs cease to cause damages after they explode, nuclear weaponry is foverever*
*I know about half-life, but more than 10 centuries is forever in human life terms.
Lawyers have powers to destroy that far exceed anything mere torturers have available.
Hmmm, let's see... Victims of torture that develop serious trauma and psychological disturbs ~ 100%. Victims of lawsuits that develop more than minor trauma ~ 1%.
I guess you never met someone who was tortured. I choose lawsuit over torture each day, the same goes for the people I love.
There's a boatload of great novels (and comics -- how about making "Watchmen" instead of "LXO" or "The Dark Knight Returns" instead of "Batman") waiting to be made into films. Why are we making $100,000,000 films of atrocious scripts?
I agree that "LXG" ("LXO" is a type, isn't it?) is crap but the original comic ("The League of Extraordinary Gentleman") is very good and suitable to a movie adaptation. "Watchman" is a classic by the same author but it's too deep to become a 2 or 3 hour flick, also the degree of psychological violence in it would turn people off ("Superheroes should be funny not grin!" they'll cry). Ditto for "The Dark Knight Returns".
Of course you can quote just the parts that support your argument. But they also said: this:
"I thought it was OK to download music because my mom paid a service fee for it. Out of all people, why did they pick me?"
this:
The family signed up for the Kazaa (search) music-swapping service three months ago, and paid a $29.99 service charge.
and this:
Usually, they listen to songs without recording them. "There's a lot of music there, but we just listen to it and let it go," Torres said.
They had no idea they were breaking the law. They thought the artists were being paid somehow. Jesus to most of them Kazaa is just like the radio, and nobody feels they're criminals when they tape musics from radio.
It's murder if you press a button knowing you're killing someone, but it's an accident if you believe to just be turning the light on. There's a big difference in thoughtfully breaking the law and mistakenly breaking the law.
It's really interesting to see that you quoted that but not this:
"I thought it was OK to download music because my mom paid a service fee for it. Out of all people, why did they pick me?"
this:
The family signed up for the Kazaa (search) music-swapping service three months ago, and paid a $29.99 service charge.
and this:
Usually, they listen to songs without recording them. "There's a lot of music there, but we just listen to it and let it go," Torres said.
They had no idea they were breaking the law. Ignorance of the law is no excuse, blah, blah, blah, but the people usually think that it's ok and the artists are being paid somehow. Jesus to most of them Kazaa is just like the radio, and nobody feels they're criminals when they tape musics from radio.
Making fun of people is really nice, even if they just commited a mistake.
Finally, I want an apology from the execs themselves for all of the misery I have to endure when flipping through the radio channels and I hear the SAME music for the past 5 years with an occasional new tune thrown in for a little spice.
That's why I listen to Eigenradio, new tunes all the time.
Not what it doesn't. As a start write down test specs for all of your use cases, even if the specs aren't automatizable. Then find a tool to simulate the user (e.g. HttpUnit is very good to simulate web users) and try to turn the specs into functional tests. Ensure that your application works today. The next step is remodularizing your code, try to find a tool that traces dependency diagrams in your code (e.g. Compuware's Pasta is an excelent free tool for Java). Module interdependency is a strong smell of bugs, so refactor them to make the dependencies acyclic, running your tests to keep everything under control. Then try to write unit-tests for the modules, create mock objects from them and check if they do what they're supposed to do. Repeat the second step for your classes (or data structures and functions if it isn't OO). Try to make all dependencies acyclic and create unittests for them. And during all these steps use Design by Contract to write down *all your assumptions*. Leave them on production code too (unless it's strictly necessary for performance). That way if your code breaks your assumptions the contracts will tell you. Also it'll force you to rewrite some code to make it checkable (i.e. exposing invariant predicates). Finally don't forget to check the common XP areas (extreme programming in Yahoo! Groups and news://comp.software.extreme-programming). It'll be no piece of cake but when you start to see a better factored code that keeps the bar green you'll be rewarded.
SCO sues Irish Mob, DirectTV and The Sopranos of IP theft over the use of extortion as a business practice. Darl is also sending two invoices of U$699.00 to JavaSavant for using SCO's trademarks, "copyright infringement" and "extortion as a business practice".
No, but the SmartEiffel team charges. They have an open mailinglist and answer doubts and bug reports, but they don't offer access to their CVS tree, just the releases. So if you want a bug fix before their next release you have to pay for it. This doesn't pay the project, but the money helps them.
here and here.
Both from that thread. AFAICT OpenOffice won't be illegal, just have to support the DRM tags of Word format.
Now, regarding the DMCA, I agree that it sucks big time and you (I'm from outside US) people should organize to change/remove this law. I for one will fight to make this law impossible in my country.
Here in Brazil we don't have software patents. But I don't think that it'll make US outlaw software patents as well just to keep being competitive. While I can write a software using US-patented ideas I'll be unable to sell it in US. Also if it's free software, US citizens won't be able to contribute or use, so major free software will still be written with US patents in mind.
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Seriously, search for porn sites and sign for their "free pics every day" lists. Err... at least that's what I heard about. Not that I sign for such lists...
Zombies with RPGs??? Look I know these guys are a dying breed but calling them zombies is just sick.
I guess you'd never read Anne Rice's novels.
Hmmm, let me see. First common light doesn't propagate in a straight line, it goes in all directions (module obstacles), so the intensity from a light source decreases with the square of distance. Second a object is visually smaller accoding to the distance, so we can estimate the Earth size from forty light years:
(radius of Earth * 2) / (40 light years) = 3.37090051 x 10-11
This is the arc in the sky from a disc with Earth's diameter from 40 light years. Roughly this is the fraction of the original energy of the light-wave from Kennedy's murder, it's pretty small, enough to the quantum effects wreck havoc (Heisenberg uncertainty principle affects both momentum/position and energy/time). With all these in mind I can say that the chance of us seeing the scenes from JFK shot in the head is smaller than it becoming some sort of creepy rerun of Friends.
Not that I pay attention to those...
People living in Dresden, Kobe or Osaka in the next decades didn't have a tendency to develop cancer. Normal bombs cease to cause damages after they explode, nuclear weaponry is foverever*
*I know about half-life, but more than 10 centuries is forever in human life terms.
I guess you never met someone who was tortured. I choose lawsuit over torture each day, the same goes for the people I love.
More like using data about stolen cars to help car makers decide which car to produce more.
On the whole lawsuit as business practice.
A recent article about legal music downloads. Lot's of independent stuff there.
Specially these, before misquoting them:
"I thought it was OK to download music because my mom paid a service fee for it. Out of all people, why did they pick me?"
The family signed up for the Kazaa music-swapping service three months ago, and paid a $29.99 service charge.
Usually, they listen to songs without recording them. "There's a lot of music there, but we just listen to it and let it go," Torres said.
And yes, you're a troll, not because you have a "slightly different opinion" but because you misquote people to support your arguments.
this:
and this:
They had no idea they were breaking the law. They thought the artists were being paid somehow. Jesus to most of them Kazaa is just like the radio, and nobody feels they're criminals when they tape musics from radio.
It's murder if you press a button knowing you're killing someone, but it's an accident if you believe to just be turning the light on. There's a big difference in thoughtfully breaking the law and mistakenly breaking the law.
this:
and this:
They had no idea they were breaking the law. Ignorance of the law is no excuse, blah, blah, blah, but the people usually think that it's ok and the artists are being paid somehow. Jesus to most of them Kazaa is just like the radio, and nobody feels they're criminals when they tape musics from radio.
Making fun of people is really nice, even if they just commited a mistake.
That's why I listen to Eigenradio, new tunes all the time.
Or something else. How come this moderation:
Moderation +3
30% Funny
40% Insightful
30% Interesting
leads to (Score:4, Funny)!?!?
Not what it doesn't.
As a start write down test specs for all of your use cases, even if the specs aren't automatizable. Then find a tool to simulate the user (e.g. HttpUnit is very good to simulate web users) and try to turn the specs into functional tests. Ensure that your application works today.
The next step is remodularizing your code, try to find a tool that traces dependency diagrams in your code (e.g. Compuware's Pasta is an excelent free tool for Java). Module interdependency is a strong smell of bugs, so refactor them to make the dependencies acyclic, running your tests to keep everything under control.
Then try to write unit-tests for the modules, create mock objects from them and check if they do what they're supposed to do. Repeat the second step for your classes (or data structures and functions if it isn't OO). Try to make all dependencies acyclic and create unittests for them.
And during all these steps use Design by Contract to write down *all your assumptions*. Leave them on production code too (unless it's strictly necessary for performance). That way if your code breaks your assumptions the contracts will tell you. Also it'll force you to rewrite some code to make it checkable (i.e. exposing invariant predicates).
Finally don't forget to check the common XP areas (extreme programming in Yahoo! Groups and news://comp.software.extreme-programming).
It'll be no piece of cake but when you start to see a better factored code that keeps the bar green you'll be rewarded.
SCO sues Irish Mob, DirectTV and The Sopranos of IP theft over the use of extortion as a business practice. Darl is also sending two invoices of U$699.00 to JavaSavant for using SCO's trademarks, "copyright infringement" and "extortion as a business practice".
No, but the SmartEiffel team charges. They have an open mailinglist and answer doubts and bug reports, but they don't offer access to their CVS tree, just the releases. So if you want a bug fix before their next release you have to pay for it. This doesn't pay the project, but the money helps them.
here and here.
Both from that thread. AFAICT OpenOffice won't be illegal, just have to support the DRM tags of Word format.
Now, regarding the DMCA, I agree that it sucks big time and you (I'm from outside US) people should organize to change/remove this law. I for one will fight to make this law impossible in my country.
Ah, but have you ever played Cobra Mission?
Or were you talking about those Real Girls (tm) that I've been hearding so much about?
I'm afraid you're new here...
Here in Brazil we don't have software patents. But I don't think that it'll make US outlaw software patents as well just to keep being competitive. While I can write a software using US-patented ideas I'll be unable to sell it in US. Also if it's free software, US citizens won't be able to contribute or use, so major free software will still be written with US patents in mind.
I for one welcome our new idiot masters...
Wait I don't, but they're already here.