... if your C code requires you to know the difference between i++ and ++i, it is too complicated
It's not a matter of knowing the difference, it's a matter of the code depending on the difference. If you need to increment beforehand, do it on the previous line. Afterward, do it on the next line. Expressions are like sex: they're better without side-effects.
Bullshit. It's part of the syntax and an accepted construct in the language. Just because the semantics are a bit obscure to a beginner doesn't make them invalid or useless. Compact and sparse code has an elegance of its own, and being able to write it well is part of the joy of programming.
Just because you hold something sacred doesn't entitle you to automatically monetize it when someone else decides to make use of it for some purpose other than what you yourself envisioned (or utterly lacked the vision for). Otherwise McDonald's should owe many, many billions of dollars to India...
Do we need to start using every country's official title so your dumb ass can understand us? Get a clue. And just in case you were confused, the common usage of "Americans" refers to citizens of the United States of America, not the entire population of North and South America.
It's pretty much a telephone system, except that it's computers calling other computers. Most people have a basic understanding of the workings -- if not the mechanics -- of a phone system.
"Guilds" are for artists and creators. Engineers, actors, painters, musicians, and even computer programmers should be in guilds, not unions. (Again, "or not" applies here.)
As another poster has pointed out, professionals are represented by organizations generally known as Associations. Real engineers -- the professional kind, not the train-driving kind or the Microsoft "certified systems" kind -- have professional associations in every state of the union and every province in Canada. It's the mandate of those associations to safeguard the public through limitation of the use of the terms "professional engineer" and "P.Eng." and to ensure that professional-quality service is given to clients by enforcement of qualification standards and through requirements for continuing professional development.
Guilds have a romantic association with the Middle Ages and wandering itinerants. It's kind of a cool notion that one would belong to a fraternity of fellow crafts, all plying the same trade. Realistically, however, it's a bit anachronistic when applied to computer programming or engineering today.
Today, rather, it's the amount of study required at the university level which generally distinguishes a professional from a craftsman or a tradesman. Thus, there are trade guilds and craft guilds -- but there are no professional guilds (that I'm aware of).
This may or may not be true (I'm skeptical when it's just one single study that had some ambiguous questions), but Greenpeace is not the one that ought to report it. Yes, the messenger does matter. If this is really true, give it to a mainstream organization and let them figure it out.
Of course, we know Greenpeace won't do that, since they're all about the publicity.
Did you even RTFA? Let's see: the German "authorities", the French CGB *and* Ministry of Agriculture, the EFSA, the Council of EU Environment Ministers, AND the European Commission, among others, all had their chance to examine and subsume the results of the rat toxicity studies. I'd say enough mainstream organizations had a crack at it, wouldn't you? Good on Greenpeace for not just giving up and lying down!
Genetic engineering is a science where people mess about with code without understanding the full implications of what that will result in. It's like modifying software while only having read and understood a small portion of the code and not the other code dependent upon it.
And Monsanto is like some giant software company who, having dicked with their source code in this way and not having tested thoroughly to determine the full ramifications of the changes, distributes the resultant patches -- indeed, foists them -- upon a for-the-most-part unsuspecting public. But that's just a crazy way to do business! No real software company would behave in such a fashion, would they?
Sure Microsoft wants the cheap workers, but, you know what? They can go to where the cheap workers are if they want 'em that bad, and we really don't want that to happen.
I really doubt your proposition. The cheap workers have to be supervised and directed, too -- or at least their managers do -- and that simply has to be done on-site to be truly effective. Have you yourself ever *been* to "where the cheap workers are"? I have. Those places suck! Relocating there will NOT be easy.
The amendments also removed on-the-spot fines for some copyright offenses, to ensure they didn't 'unintentionally capture harmless activities of ordinary Australians'."
... which, I think, is exactly what the RIAA and their ilk are after in the first place. "Oh, you're infringing our rights? Better pay up, Buddy; we can make endless trouble for you and then it's gonna get *really* expensive!"
This, I believe, is what used to be called a shakedown, and it used to be considered a criminal activity. Now it appears to have turned into a routine M/O for business -- a sad commentary on our times. Oh, what sad times are these, when passing ruffians can say 'ni' at will to old ladies. There is a pestilence upon this land. Nothing is sacred. Even those who arrange and design shrubberies are under considerable economic stress at this period in history.
During oral arguments, Justice Breyer observed, 'It looks to me at about the same level as I have a sensor on my garage door at the lower hinge... and the raccoons are eating it. So I think of the brainstorm of putting it on the upper hinge.'"
Ah -- the old "raccoons eating the hinges" analogy.
Oh, what about the risk of being able to revert quickly if you get infected by a virus? Those are all terrible risks, and it's imperative that home users don't touch virtualization because of it!
Well yeah, that would kind of jeopardize the Windows Live One Care revenue stream, wouldn't it? And after they went to all that trouble to prepare fertile ground for it, too...
We all know how easily video can be creatively edited & pictures can be photoshopped... so short of banning camera phones & (video) cameras, I don't really see how you resolve the issue.
How about... not yelling at students?
How about behaving with a certain decorum and a degree of self-control?
How about always behaving as if you are on public display?
The FSF has come out and said that they will tweak the GPL3 to make sure it covers stuff like this. Linus has been silent. He doesn't care about these things and he is openly hostile to the FSF and the GPL3. If he does ever speak on the issue I suspect he won't have any problems with it.
I suspect he will -- when Darth McBalmer and his hordes of imperial MinionS storm Linus' home planet, the last remaining bastion of software freedom, and the final battle begins.
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Just because you hold something sacred doesn't entitle you to automatically monetize it when someone else decides to make use of it for some purpose other than what you yourself envisioned (or utterly lacked the vision for). Otherwise McDonald's should owe many, many billions of dollars to India ...
... just like every good Canadian. Ah, Timmy's -- makes Starbucks taste like dishwater by comparison!
It's pretty much a telephone system, except that it's computers calling other computers. Most people have a basic understanding of the workings -- if not the mechanics -- of a phone system.
Guilds have a romantic association with the Middle Ages and wandering itinerants. It's kind of a cool notion that one would belong to a fraternity of fellow crafts, all plying the same trade. Realistically, however, it's a bit anachronistic when applied to computer programming or engineering today.
Today, rather, it's the amount of study required at the university level which generally distinguishes a professional from a craftsman or a tradesman. Thus, there are trade guilds and craft guilds -- but there are no professional guilds (that I'm aware of).
Cheers,
R. Stocker, Ph.D., P.Eng.
Oh, but they do! See here or here.
And so do the Canadians -- see here.
No one is immune to such aberrant behaviour.
The real irony is that this is probably closer to the truth than what they've been trying to peddle all along!
The referenced Computerworld article is here (for all those who haven't yet read it; I myself hadn't).
Webster, Dictionary.com, and The Free Dictionary all use the term "extortion" to define blackmail.
... at least until the batteries run out, right?
I wonder if a mirrored surface would be an effective countermeasure?
This, I believe, is what used to be called a shakedown, and it used to be considered a criminal activity. Now it appears to have turned into a routine M/O for business -- a sad commentary on our times. Oh, what sad times are these, when passing ruffians can say 'ni' at will to old ladies. There is a pestilence upon this land. Nothing is sacred. Even those who arrange and design shrubberies are under considerable economic stress at this period in history.
But I digress
Apologies to PharmBoy -- you did get there first, buddy!
How about behaving with a certain decorum and a degree of self-control?
How about always behaving as if you are on public display?
See? No problem!