Its debateable if file swapping if morally wrong at all.
Morality is a pointless topic to debate. It is even more pointless than attempting to debate any "rights" not granted to you as a matter of law, which is also a fairly pointless endeavor. One can debate anything; it matters little.
The only few who think its morally wrong are a few guys who happen to own copyrights
What reason do you have to suggest that the subset of the population that believes that copyright infringement is "morally wrong" is the subset of the population that hold the copyrights of intellectual property?
What is your basis for concluding that these people are "few?"
the average American does not own any intellectual property
How many people from the U.S. own rights to intellectual property?
Do you know under what scenarios one creates and thus owns intellectual property?
Do you hold the copyright for any work?
than defending some unknown CEOs freedom to own them.
In the case that a business is the holder of the copyright or otherwise is the owner of a piece of intellectual property, under what situations is this the exclusive property of the CEO of that business? Under what cases is it not?
Perhaps instead of concerning yourself with the morality of the issue, you should spend more effort becoming informed about the subject, and then attempting to determine whether or not a scenario where mob rule invalidates the social contracts regarding intellectual property, will result in a more favorable outcome for you, or if you prefer, the average person in the U.S. This of course presupposes that you are either concerned with a more favorable outcome for yourself, or for the country as a whole, and aren't engaging in self-destructive behavior through the time-honored method of mental masturbation of chasing a flawed ideology whose results are contrary to its intentions.
When it comes to science education (especially math/CS), USA is at best no better than other countries (for example, Russia, India or China). Perhaps, even worse.
Specify the scope of your claims and provide evidence to support your position. If you think the education of the average Chinese person (which does not mean Hong Kong) is higher than the average American, you're deluded. If you position is that those people that specialize in mathematics and the sciences in the U.S. are less educated in comparison to their foreign counterparts, I would be quite enthused to see your proof.
Think harder. My meaning is clear. If you don't get it, it's not my problem. I tried to give you everything you need to answer your own question, and that's the best effort I can do.
unless it uses a lot of pointers (most C++ code does not).
Right...
What's different between a lexical closure, an aluminum can, and an encrypted profanity? Don't see the relevance, none of these three language features are present in Java or C++ (although Perl has two of them).
I'll just ignore your attempt at illiteracy, and hope for the best.
What's different between between language access levels in C++ and Java? What's different between JVM access levels when run with a security manager and C++ access levels? What's different between C++ access levels and hardware memory protection? What's different between Java access levels and hardware memory protection? What's the different between C# access levels and Java access levels? What is different between JVM and CLR security managers? What's different between a lexical closure, an aluminum can, and an encrypted profanity?
research on how static analysis (better known as reverse engineering) can improve code security
Static analysis is better known as static analysis. Perhaps you should read those research papers a little better in the future.
Also, please provide sources for material you've read, and a summary of each source and its significance. Don't make baseless claims as an attempt to lend support to your position, it's not useful.
Having it be so simple to violate the protection on a private attribute as easily as it was described to do in.NET is a complete atrocity and undoes the concept and idea of OO-design and it's principles.
You can disregard access levels in Java through SecurityManager policies. You can disregard access levels in C++ with a pointer. An entire class of Object Oriented languages don't even have access levels as part of their mechanism for encapsulation. Encapsulation is not a practical means of securing access to regions of memory or code. Accessing sections of data not part of the official interface of an object violates the principles of encapsulation, being able to do so is called reality.
MS's "millions of dollars" of work was just a rehashing and facelifting of the real grunt work done by Gosling and others at Sun Microsystems. Do you know who James Gosling is?
I think the question really is, do you know who James Gosling is? Better yet, do you know who Urs Hölzle, David Ungar, Craig Chambers, Brian Cox, Bertrand Meyer, and Alan Kay are? You have some fairly deluded concept of Java and its creators, and I wouldn't infer anything more than your typical dotter's understanding of CS, or its history from your posts. Perhaps after "years" of more "research," you'll have a more grounded position.
As an exercise, compare the CLR to the JVM. Compare the common set of functionality provided by the CLR for languages that target the CLR, optionally considering the extensions that will be provided through by the work of Don Syme and Andrew Kennedy. Discuss the effects of the different design ideals on the languages' respective frameworks, and how they will influence resource consumption, safety, and productivity.
Perhaps it would help you to know that.NET's security model is so complex it's near impossible to get working correctly
Discuss at length the security policies of the CLR and the JVM. Outline the strengths and weaknesses of both, and discuss this significance for implementations.
If you need a hobby, I could suggest a few. You apparently have more than enough time to carry on about how people choose to harmlessly entertain themselves. I don't think it would take considerable imagination to find a more useful, rewarding, and less offensive means of occupying yourself.
But then you wouldn't have time for your enlightened "yankees" nonsense, right?
The people that populate Zion are either recent-descendents of people that have escaped a 20th century Matrix, or escapees themselves. This is the culture that has been inprinted upon them. If anything, the industrial look of Zion is more out of place than predominately drum-based dance music.
Wouldn't I have to at like Windows to be a Windows fanboy?
Take your medication, mindless zealot.
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You might want to consider having your hearing tested if you really can't determine the difference between a 64Kbps Vorbis stream and a CD in blind testing. I don't mean that as a derision, but Vorbis shouldn't be transparent at that bitrate. It may certainly sound good, however.
None of this necessarily means anything for the acceptance of Vorbis for the purposes of streaming audio, though. I'd say it's non-trivial to determine what directions post-mp3 streaming audio will take. For all we know, AAC HE may become the next big thing. There may just be several formats used by individual streamers (like there are now), without any singular, dominant format being exclusively popular. In all likelihood, though, any potential licensing fees will matter less than what the average person, sitting at their computer, will be able to play without having to go through considerable effort.
Yeah, that was clever. Keep 'em coming, maybe you can construct the one billionth Microsoft troll, and fit your boring political paranoia into it in one stellar pile of waste.
Ken Silverman wrote Build. Here is his own history of his engine writing experience. You'll notice that Ken mentions speaking to John Carmack about its design, although I'm not implying anything by that.
No, HanzoSan really is retarded. The grandparent is quite safe in his reference to him as such. The only people that will see the grandparent as 'immature' in his assessment are those that have not had the displeasure of attempting to have rational discussion in the same forum as HanzoSan.
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Its debateable if file swapping if morally wrong at all.
Morality is a pointless topic to debate. It is even more pointless than attempting to debate any "rights" not granted to you as a matter of law, which is also a fairly pointless endeavor. One can debate anything; it matters little.
The only few who think its morally wrong are a few guys who happen to own copyrights
What reason do you have to suggest that the subset of the population that believes that copyright infringement is "morally wrong" is the subset of the population that hold the copyrights of intellectual property?
What is your basis for concluding that these people are "few?"
the average American does not own any intellectual property
How many people from the U.S. own rights to intellectual property?
Do you know under what scenarios one creates and thus owns intellectual property?
Do you hold the copyright for any work?
than defending some unknown CEOs freedom to own them.
In the case that a business is the holder of the copyright or otherwise is the owner of a piece of intellectual property, under what situations is this the exclusive property of the CEO of that business? Under what cases is it not?
Perhaps instead of concerning yourself with the morality of the issue, you should spend more effort becoming informed about the subject, and then attempting to determine whether or not a scenario where mob rule invalidates the social contracts regarding intellectual property, will result in a more favorable outcome for you, or if you prefer, the average person in the U.S. This of course presupposes that you are either concerned with a more favorable outcome for yourself, or for the country as a whole, and aren't engaging in self-destructive behavior through the time-honored method of mental masturbation of chasing a flawed ideology whose results are contrary to its intentions.
When it comes to science education (especially math/CS), USA is at best no better than other countries (for example, Russia, India or China). Perhaps, even worse.
Specify the scope of your claims and provide evidence to support your position. If you think the education of the average Chinese person (which does not mean Hong Kong) is higher than the average American, you're deluded. If you position is that those people that specialize in mathematics and the sciences in the U.S. are less educated in comparison to their foreign counterparts, I would be quite enthused to see your proof.
Funny as hell. I guess the American mods can't take a little ribbing.
I get modded down for stuff like this all the time.
I guess whiny, clueless foreigners can't take being moderated by 'the American mods.'
If speaking your opinion make you a troll, I don't want any karma points!
What was that? Something about opinions and rectums. I can never keep those things straight.
Mod me offtopic some more. My karma is too high.
I think you'll notice the grandparent has less than ten posts. It's a shill account for trolling.
It looks like MP3s. Which is good. Is it all really just encoded at 128 though? Any option to get something better?
This discussion seems to indicate that they're moving their service to providing fairly decent LAME encodings.
Please be my guest. Someday we'll have the same conversation.
Think harder. My meaning is clear. If you don't get it, it's not my problem. I tried to give you everything you need to answer your own question, and that's the best effort I can do.
unless it uses a lot of pointers (most C++ code does not).
Right...
What's different between a lexical closure, an aluminum can, and an encrypted profanity? Don't see the relevance, none of these three language features are present in Java or C++ (although Perl has two of them).
Think harder.
Answering the questions should result in reaching a conclusion that is my point.
Also don't misquote people, it's rude.
Could you explain what you meant by 'encapsulation is not a practical means...'?
Perhaps after you get it you'll understand.
I'll just ignore your attempt at illiteracy, and hope for the best.
What's different between between language access levels in C++ and Java? What's different between JVM access levels when run with a security manager and C++ access levels? What's different between C++ access levels and hardware memory protection? What's different between Java access levels and hardware memory protection? What's the different between C# access levels and Java access levels? What is different between JVM and CLR security managers? What's different between a lexical closure, an aluminum can, and an encrypted profanity?
research on how static analysis (better known as reverse engineering) can improve code security
.NET is a complete atrocity and undoes the concept and idea of OO-design and it's principles.
.NET's security model is so complex it's near impossible to get working correctly
Static analysis is better known as static analysis. Perhaps you should read those research papers a little better in the future.
Also, please provide sources for material you've read, and a summary of each source and its significance. Don't make baseless claims as an attempt to lend support to your position, it's not useful.
Having it be so simple to violate the protection on a private attribute as easily as it was described to do in
You can disregard access levels in Java through SecurityManager policies. You can disregard access levels in C++ with a pointer. An entire class of Object Oriented languages don't even have access levels as part of their mechanism for encapsulation. Encapsulation is not a practical means of securing access to regions of memory or code. Accessing sections of data not part of the official interface of an object violates the principles of encapsulation, being able to do so is called reality.
MS's "millions of dollars" of work was just a rehashing and facelifting of the real grunt work done by Gosling and others at Sun Microsystems. Do you know who James Gosling is?
I think the question really is, do you know who James Gosling is? Better yet, do you know who Urs Hölzle, David Ungar, Craig Chambers, Brian Cox, Bertrand Meyer, and Alan Kay are? You have some fairly deluded concept of Java and its creators, and I wouldn't infer anything more than your typical dotter's understanding of CS, or its history from your posts. Perhaps after "years" of more "research," you'll have a more grounded position.
As an exercise, compare the CLR to the JVM. Compare the common set of functionality provided by the CLR for languages that target the CLR, optionally considering the extensions that will be provided through by the work of Don Syme and Andrew Kennedy. Discuss the effects of the different design ideals on the languages' respective frameworks, and how they will influence resource consumption, safety, and productivity.
Perhaps it would help you to know that
Discuss at length the security policies of the CLR and the JVM. Outline the strengths and weaknesses of both, and discuss this significance for implementations.
If you need a hobby, I could suggest a few. You apparently have more than enough time to carry on about how people choose to harmlessly entertain themselves. I don't think it would take considerable imagination to find a more useful, rewarding, and less offensive means of occupying yourself.
But then you wouldn't have time for your enlightened "yankees" nonsense, right?
The people that populate Zion are either recent-descendents of people that have escaped a 20th century Matrix, or escapees themselves. This is the culture that has been inprinted upon them. If anything, the industrial look of Zion is more out of place than predominately drum-based dance music.
You hurt my feelings.
I know you are, but what am I?
I have forever, zealot moderators.
Wouldn't I have to at like Windows to be a Windows fanboy?
Take your medication, mindless zealot.
You might want to consider having your hearing tested if you really can't determine the difference between a 64Kbps Vorbis stream and a CD in blind testing. I don't mean that as a derision, but Vorbis shouldn't be transparent at that bitrate. It may certainly sound good, however.
None of this necessarily means anything for the acceptance of Vorbis for the purposes of streaming audio, though. I'd say it's non-trivial to determine what directions post-mp3 streaming audio will take. For all we know, AAC HE may become the next big thing. There may just be several formats used by individual streamers (like there are now), without any singular, dominant format being exclusively popular. In all likelihood, though, any potential licensing fees will matter less than what the average person, sitting at their computer, will be able to play without having to go through considerable effort.
I know you are, but what am I?
Grueling death has a considerably larger deployment.
Well that certainly was clever. How many boring zealots does it take to screw in a light bulb?
Yeah, that was clever. Keep 'em coming, maybe you can construct the one billionth Microsoft troll, and fit your boring political paranoia into it in one stellar pile of waste.
Or perhaps people are just growing tired of the childish banter that a subset of Slashdot users seem compelled to beat a dead horse with.
Ken Silverman wrote Build. Here is his own history of his engine writing experience. You'll notice that Ken mentions speaking to John Carmack about its design, although I'm not implying anything by that.
No, HanzoSan really is retarded. The grandparent is quite safe in his reference to him as such. The only people that will see the grandparent as 'immature' in his assessment are those that have not had the displeasure of attempting to have rational discussion in the same forum as HanzoSan.