the community does dictate the rules of land ownership. i own a block of land, how ever i don't get to own the mineral rights to it or the water catchment rights. i can't build a pink and purple house nor can i raise farm animals on it.
copyright holders (i'm talking RIAA here) on the other hand think they can do as they please and that we should facilitate their ever expanding list of demands.
copyright isn't an inalienable right, the community is the one providing the protection to copyright holder, and they can dictate the rules as they see fit.
I hardly think digital transmission of data destroys anything.
things like islam and christianity atleast are based on REAL historical figures and places, regardless if you believe in the religion at the very least you know there's really a place called jerusalem and there really was a john the bapist etc. jediism is abased on a fucking movie, there is no chance that any of it is real.
the only similarity between them i can see is the first chapters often contridict the later chapters.
I think advances in science would increase vastly if we could live for even 200 years. there' problems it takes several life times of research to solve.
it would also make long space flights a possibility, since a 30 year flight suddenly isn't the best years of your life wasted.
I think we might actually see the end to cancer in our life time. only 50 years ago pretty much any cancer was a death sentence, but now if detected early they have 80% and up 5 year survival rates with some kinds.
of course with cancer gone we will see many more old age illnesses due to an unnaturally long life. it'd be a nice problem to have i guess, to have people live so long that we hit biological age limitations.
it's not at all like wikipedia though (wikipedia has shit loads of problems, probably best not to use it as an example). if someone has an axe to grind and starts reporting 10 rapes a day in a certain area, how do others edit or even verify it in this model? atleast in wikipedia you can examine facts.
actually DNA matches aren't 100%. they can usually narrow it down to "it's someone in the suspects immediate family", then they have to use other additional means to prove it could only have been the suspect.
your example is flawed because python doesn't use curly brackets to deliniate the IF block, it uses it's indentation. i think this is fundamental problem non python people have understanding the language, and until they use it they don't understand why it's just an elegant design. also, beginners NEED proper indenting practises to be forced down their throat.
I've written millions of lines of python in production and i've never found the indentation to be a problem. i could just as easily make the arguement that curly bracket hell is worse, because there's nothing forcing proper formatting.
if you do have indented incorrectly, just like any other compiler it tells you what line the error is on. it's not a problem.
if speed is an issue you can always execute something written in C and have python deal with the results. do the high level stuff in python where speed isn't an issue. best tool for the job and all that.
i've written 3d geological models in python with over 400,000 data points, and it rendered in seconds and ran at about 5fps on my onboard video card and core 2 duo cpu. sure it'd be faster in c++, but i knocked out the application that produces the models in an afternoon tinkering. no way you'd do that in c++.
python is perfect for people who want to learn and want to produce something useful in a short time.
for a start, if the mining sector suffers, we all suffer 10 fold.
if you think voting greens is the only option, then you haven't done much thinking. the liberals solution was perfectly fine - free filtering software for anyone that wanted it. MUCH cheaper then a national filter, only people that wanted it got it and as effective as any other soltion.
what makes their whaling illegal, it's in international waters?
The greens whole platform on things like climate change an nuclear energy is based on pipe dreams and bad science. 40% cuts to CO2 emissions, who do they think they are kidding? they don't have any kind of real polices on things like health, law enforcement or social security. they are fine in the senate as a counter balance, but as a government it'd be like the pink batts saga only for everything....
the greens would ruin this country. the wealth of this country is based on natural resources, how the hell is a party with environmental blinkers on going to manage? not to mention they support the sea sheperd whackos. i'm against whaling, but i hate sea sheperd because they are nothing more then self glorified pirates who do nothing but harm. they are the type of people that think anything they do is justified by their cause, so when they start making the wrong choices they justify it with their zealotry and aren't able to see they are wrong.
i've known people who have interened at MS. only the smartest engineers work there and they treat their people really well. however, they have a large and powerful marketing team that management listen to, and there in lies the fail.
mono culture is good at times. look at the desktop market, you can't tell me there isn't benefits in having a monoculutre there - it allows users to have one familar gui.
because after 2 releases they stop making security updates. other OS's go a hell of a lot longer before they EOL their releases.
i've had this arguement with openbsd people before. what it comes down to is openbsd is their toy and they like constantly updating rather then doing mundaine shit like patching old versions.
all well and good, it's their project they can do as they please, but don't pretend that it's a superior server OS, because it simply doesn't cut it if you don't have patch support after just 12 months. there's plenty of secure systems with more features and longer EOL's that make openbsd more trouble then it's worth.
the fact that the user can migrate from one system to another without having to relearn the GUI and system management options isn't a fault, it's fucking technical victory linux BSD would do well to learn from.
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copyright holders (i'm talking RIAA here) on the other hand think they can do as they please and that we should facilitate their ever expanding list of demands.
what retarded nonsense is that? there's 100's of single player games. bio shock a massive hit, is single player, moron.
I hardly think digital transmission of data destroys anything.
petrodollars indeed.
I sure would?
the only similarity between them i can see is the first chapters often contridict the later chapters.
and when they call in the trillions in loans the USA owes them? then what?
I think advances in science would increase vastly if we could live for even 200 years. there' problems it takes several life times of research to solve. it would also make long space flights a possibility, since a 30 year flight suddenly isn't the best years of your life wasted.
of course with cancer gone we will see many more old age illnesses due to an unnaturally long life. it'd be a nice problem to have i guess, to have people live so long that we hit biological age limitations.
it's not at all like wikipedia though (wikipedia has shit loads of problems, probably best not to use it as an example). if someone has an axe to grind and starts reporting 10 rapes a day in a certain area, how do others edit or even verify it in this model? atleast in wikipedia you can examine facts.
actually DNA matches aren't 100%. they can usually narrow it down to "it's someone in the suspects immediate family", then they have to use other additional means to prove it could only have been the suspect.
I've written millions of lines of python in production and i've never found the indentation to be a problem. i could just as easily make the arguement that curly bracket hell is worse, because there's nothing forcing proper formatting.
if you do have indented incorrectly, just like any other compiler it tells you what line the error is on. it's not a problem.
if speed is an issue you can always execute something written in C and have python deal with the results. do the high level stuff in python where speed isn't an issue. best tool for the job and all that.
why is python no good for software that is to be deployed?
python is perfect for people who want to learn and want to produce something useful in a short time.
if you think voting greens is the only option, then you haven't done much thinking. the liberals solution was perfectly fine - free filtering software for anyone that wanted it. MUCH cheaper then a national filter, only people that wanted it got it and as effective as any other soltion.
so there you go, vote liberal.
The greens whole platform on things like climate change an nuclear energy is based on pipe dreams and bad science. 40% cuts to CO2 emissions, who do they think they are kidding? they don't have any kind of real polices on things like health, law enforcement or social security. they are fine in the senate as a counter balance, but as a government it'd be like the pink batts saga only for everything....
"Rather Sea Sherpard that illiterate fucks like you."
illiterate fuck am I? your just as 2 faced and incompetent as sea SHEPERD
the greens would ruin this country. the wealth of this country is based on natural resources, how the hell is a party with environmental blinkers on going to manage? not to mention they support the sea sheperd whackos. i'm against whaling, but i hate sea sheperd because they are nothing more then self glorified pirates who do nothing but harm. they are the type of people that think anything they do is justified by their cause, so when they start making the wrong choices they justify it with their zealotry and aren't able to see they are wrong.
so what happens when they move from work to home or change jobs, suddenly they have an unfamilar gui.
i've known people who have interened at MS. only the smartest engineers work there and they treat their people really well. however, they have a large and powerful marketing team that management listen to, and there in lies the fail.
mono culture is good at times. look at the desktop market, you can't tell me there isn't benefits in having a monoculutre there - it allows users to have one familar gui.
yes it is apples fault because they went with At&t in the first place. fail.
i've had this arguement with openbsd people before. what it comes down to is openbsd is their toy and they like constantly updating rather then doing mundaine shit like patching old versions.
all well and good, it's their project they can do as they please, but don't pretend that it's a superior server OS, because it simply doesn't cut it if you don't have patch support after just 12 months. there's plenty of secure systems with more features and longer EOL's that make openbsd more trouble then it's worth.
the fact that the user can migrate from one system to another without having to relearn the GUI and system management options isn't a fault, it's fucking technical victory linux BSD would do well to learn from.