You man enjoy N. Stephan Kinsella's book -- a patent attorney of many years' experience who is Against Intellectual Property -- IMHO it should have been titled "Against Imaginary Property"
Here is a list of ALL the movies that came out in 2017. Out of the 704 movies released in 2017 only ~14 were good IMHO. That is, 100 * 14 / 704 = 1.988%
And that IS including the dumb, dormulaic, mindless-action, pop movies:
- Cars 3 - Despicable Me 3 - Dunkirk - Guardians of the Galaxy 2 - Thor Ragnarok - Wonder Woman
Roughly ~2% of movies are good, the rest are garbage.
/sarcasm Here's to another 126 Hollywood shitty re-makes that no one asked for! Maybe the sixth remake of Robin Hood will be the golden ticket. *snicker*
> Or creates a climate of intimidation and fear over wearing the "wrong kind of shirt" like with Matt Taylor.
Indeed.
Man, Matt Taylor: Philae lander spacecraft in space for 10 years; lands it on a comet. Woman, Katie Mack: Ignores what the man just accomplished; complains that him wearing his *birthday gift* shirt DESIGNED by a woman, is sexist. Ignores Kim karTrashian nudes.
Forgot to add: The reasons Sir Tim Hunt's joke was funny was because it was based on personal experience:
* He met his wife in the laboratory while she was married to another man.
Without the *context* of the joke the mob rule read it literally instead of sarcastic self-deprecating humor.
Also, it was a Korean female politician who had "thanked the ladies for the lunch." but apparently a lie tweeted made it as if Hunt had said "thanks to the women journalists for making lunch". Dr Scott Watkins provided clarification but by then the damage had been done.
In case anyone was wondering about the latter details:
Notice how the MSM (Mainstream Media) ignored the context of Sir Tim Hunt's joke: (my emphasis added)
"It's strange that such a chauvinist monster like me has been asked to speak to women scientists. Let me tell you about my trouble with girls. Three things happen when they are in the lab: you fall in love with them, they fall in love with you, and when you criticize them they cry. Perhaps we should make separate labs for boys and girls? Now seriously, I'm impressed by the economic development of Korea. And women scientists played, without doubt, an important role in it. Science needs women and you should do science despite all the obstacles, and despite monsters like me."
Here is the high resolution zoom of Matt Taylor's shirt. Notice how the "mob rule" conveniently ignored the fact that
that it was designed by a woman, Elly Prizeman.
/sarcasm Apparently wearing a shirt, designed by a woman, is "magically" sexist.
> I've come to the conclusion that anyone using the phrase "ivory tower" is probably an idiot with a chip on their shoulder.
Ad hominem much ?
I've come to the conclusion that anyone using the excuse "Implementation details" is probably an idiot teacher who believes the delusion Theory comes before Application.
FTFY.
> you don't understand academic jobs
Spotted the shitty teacher who can't code and tries to justify it.
Computing Science is BOTH Theory AND Application. Academics who teach ONLY theory are literally missing HALF of the equation.
If you were a music teacher you would basically teach Music Theory and say that "Playing the instrument" is just "implementation details." Are you really THAT fucking stupid??????
Theory ALWAYS comes AFTER Application. Application PROVES that the Theory is correct.
We write code for PEOPLE to READ, otherwise we'd still be using assembly.
Do you teach students HOW to name variables?
Do you teach students the pros AND cons of the various indentation style ?
Do you teach people HOW to write CONSTRUCTIVE comments? i.e. Document WHY not the how.
Do you teach students BOTH the and Pros and Cons of various programming paradigms? Do you discuss Functional? Procedural? Why OOP is fine for minimizing coupling, but do you mention that OOP is shit for high performance ?
When you teach Radix Sort do you mention that O(3n) is NOT equal to O(n) in the Real World ? Do you teach HOW to modify Radix Sort to sort float32 numbers? Or do you hand waive that with the bullshit "Left as an exercise for the reader" ?
Do you teach the nine different types of binary searches?
Do you teach the 32 different ways CRC32 can be implemented? Do you mention the 4 that are standardized?
Riiiight, I'm the idiot for calling out the bullshit of Theory without Application is _exactly_ why those in the academic ivory tower tend to be blind.
Look at all the shit Yahoo kept adding while Google focused on doing one thing well. Functionality beats Form.
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One professor would literally hand-wave "Those are implementation details."
*facepalm*
WTF!!!
Outside the academic ivory tower in the real world we write programs to run on REAL hardware today -- not some imaginary future computer that has zero latency.
Hell, it was just a six years ago that Bjarne Stroustrup was so far out-of-touch with modern hardware and its L1 cache that he was surprised to learn that doubly linked lists give shitty cache usage.
Someday when you grow up you'll realize that (some) fans like to financially support creators. There is even a concept of Pay What You Want, shocking I know!/sarcasm
If YOU want to share, er pirate it, go ahead. But I want a legal option where I don't have to waste my time on bullshit copyright greed.
Are you really THAT fucking stupid that you can't tell the difference between a living animal and dumb machine that was PROGRAMMED to be manipulative based on mimicking a human's voice???
It's a fucking machine. Nothing more.
> Compassion has nothing to do with reality
Yeah, it is called intelligence.
When I watch an artificial reality, called a movie, and laugh when the "evil" antagonists murder the idiot protagonist that does NOT mean I lack compassion. Au contraire it means I am able to separate reality from fiction. As Mel Brooks famously said
Tragedy is what happens to me, comedy is what happens to you; -- Mel Brooks
Finding pleasure in the suffering of others in a virtual setting is comedy. Outside the artificial reality, aka, Real Life (TM) this would be borderline sadism. Actual adults are smart enough to know the difference between the two.
The fucking robot is NOT alive. It is just a dumb machine. The fact that you think "having compassion" for a glorified toaster makes me question your sanity. There is a time to be humane. Making some bullshit "compassion" argument over a robot is idiotic.
> But you cannot control compassion. Not possible. That's why movies work, even cartoons.
You sure as hell can manipulate people's emotions. WHY did they use a HUMAN's VOICE in the first place???
There is a reason TV shows use a Laugh Track and why movies have an orchestra score in order to manipulate people's feelings. Here, watch The Big Bang Theory - No Laugh Track 1 (Avoiding the Shamy) and you can see how a crap show is manipulated to appear funny.
You sure as hell can manipulate people into feeling that killing some "digital pixels" is "real".
i.e. Take one of the virtual genocide games, aka, First-Person-Shooter games. Now have one of the enemies be a kid, with a gun, shooting at you, and when you aim at them they say "Don't kill me mommy/daddy!".
Now tabulate who is dumb enough to think that "killing" some "digital pixels" is "real" and compare / contrast with the people who DON'T feel compassion. They are NOT ALL sociopaths -- some are actually smart enough to know WHEN to apply their emotions and when NOT to.
Sadly, most companies view piracy as some sort of "distribution problem" -- it isn't. Piracy shows there is a demand. The "free" price is just an added bonus.
Gee, give customers a LEGAL way to purchase old media and they are surprised people WANT to buy? Why the fuck isn't EVERYTHING (TV, Movies, 8-bit and 16-bit Games) already digitized already where we CAN purchase them? Hell, wasn't there just a story where the classic NES outsold the PS4, XBone, and Switch???
People WILL pay for nostalgia. Piracy just shows there is a DEMAND for it.
-- Stupid Juvenile Whiners "Logic"
The Force is Female.
*facepalm*
A/The force is NEITHER male nor female -- it doesn't procreate, it just is. Stop with the bullshit agenda already.
Slashdot Mirror
Agreed.
You man enjoy N. Stephan Kinsella's book -- a patent attorney of many years' experience who is Against Intellectual Property -- IMHO it should have been titled "Against Imaginary Property"
Agreed. Although it is actually worse then 5% !
Here is a list of ALL the movies that came out in 2017. Out of the 704 movies released in 2017 only ~14 were good IMHO. That is, 100 * 14 / 704 = 1.988%
And that IS including the dumb, dormulaic, mindless-action, pop movies:
- Cars 3
- Despicable Me 3
- Dunkirk
- Guardians of the Galaxy 2
- Thor Ragnarok
- Wonder Woman
Roughly ~2% of movies are good, the rest are garbage.
> Your program does not meet the criteria to be copyrightable
Which is what exactly ... ? Chapter and Verse of the U.S. Code, Title 17, please.
Also, please define "original work of authorship"
TIA.
You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means.
Here is a (hex) number:
A9C120EDFD186901C9DBD0F660
It is ALSO a copyrighted program (*) since I just wrote it.
1. Do you steal a number??? Hint. YOU CAN'T and don't since I STILL have it if you "steal" it.
2. If you copy that program you have committed piracy (since I never game permission for you to use it.) So copying numbers are now illegal ???
Yes, according to current idiotic, archaic, law. It is called "Copyright Infringement"
It doesn't matter if numbers represent data such as audio, video, text, etc.
Saying it is illegal to copy a number is still stupid.
(*) It a 6502 program (*) that prints the letters A-Z on an Apple ][.
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Only children censor
Adults communicate and even laugh at taboo subjects.
"Political Correctness (aka, Political Censorship), is fascism pretending to be Manners."
-- George Carlin
> Sure, the US military has issues, but that's no reason to bash the shit out of them for advertising.
Even when they get the Department of Agriculture to do their marketing for them in 1942? :-)
Hemp For Victory (1942)
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Stupid Juvenile Whiners Rule #2:
Have a tantrum (Juvenile)
> Or creates a climate of intimidation and fear over wearing the "wrong kind of shirt" like with Matt Taylor.
Indeed.
Man, Matt Taylor: Philae lander spacecraft in space for 10 years; lands it on a comet.
Woman, Katie Mack: Ignores what the man just accomplished; complains that him wearing his *birthday gift* shirt DESIGNED by a woman, is sexist. Ignores Kim karTrashian nudes.
Forgot to add: The reasons Sir Tim Hunt's joke was funny was because it was based on personal experience:
* He met his wife in the laboratory while she was married to another man.
Without the *context* of the joke the mob rule read it literally instead of sarcastic self-deprecating humor.
Also, it was a Korean female politician who had "thanked the ladies for the lunch." but apparently a lie tweeted made it as if Hunt had said "thanks to the women journalists for making lunch". Dr Scott Watkins provided clarification but by then the damage had been done.
You can read the actual events.
In case anyone was wondering about the latter details:
Notice how the MSM (Mainstream Media) ignored the context of Sir Tim Hunt's joke: (my emphasis added)
Here is the high resolution zoom of Matt Taylor's shirt. Notice how the "mob rule" conveniently ignored the fact that
that it was designed by a woman, Elly Prizeman.
*facepalm*
> I've come to the conclusion that anyone using the phrase "ivory tower" is probably an idiot with a chip on their shoulder.
Ad hominem much ?
I've come to the conclusion that anyone using the excuse "Implementation details" is probably an idiot teacher who believes the delusion Theory comes before Application.
FTFY.
> you don't understand academic jobs
Spotted the shitty teacher who can't code and tries to justify it.
Computing Science is BOTH Theory AND Application. Academics who teach ONLY theory are literally missing HALF of the equation.
If you were a music teacher you would basically teach Music Theory and say that "Playing the instrument" is just "implementation details." Are you really THAT fucking stupid??????
Theory ALWAYS comes AFTER Application. Application PROVES that the Theory is correct.
We write code for PEOPLE to READ, otherwise we'd still be using assembly.
Do you teach students HOW to name variables?
Do you teach students the pros AND cons of the various indentation style ?
Do you teach people HOW to write CONSTRUCTIVE comments? i.e. Document WHY not the how.
Do you teach students BOTH the and Pros and Cons of various programming paradigms? Do you discuss Functional? Procedural? Why OOP is fine for minimizing coupling, but do you mention that OOP is shit for high performance ?
When you teach Radix Sort do you mention that O(3n) is NOT equal to O(n) in the Real World ? Do you teach HOW to modify Radix Sort to sort float32 numbers? Or do you hand waive that with the bullshit "Left as an exercise for the reader" ?
Do you teach the nine different types of binary searches?
Do you teach the 32 different ways CRC32 can be implemented? Do you mention the 4 that are standardized?
Riiiight, I'm the idiot for calling out the bullshit of Theory without Application is _exactly_ why those in the academic ivory tower tend to be blind.
> And when I teach algorithms I could not care less how some of the bricks are implemented.
Why would you only teach 50% of the subject???
Comp. Sci. is NOT just Theory. Back in the Real World (TM) Application is just as important as Theory.
> I care about teaching correctness and complexity analysis.
That is good, but neglecting to teach 50% of a subject shows you are a crappy teacher.
> old SNL sketch where they were making fun of this exact same concept only regarding TV news channels
LOL! +1 for News Force (01/09/99)
> Look at Google's initial success
Indeed.
Look at all the shit Yahoo kept adding while Google focused on doing one thing well. Functionality beats Form.
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*facepalm*
It really depends on the school and person.
One professor would literally hand-wave "Those are implementation details."
*facepalm*
WTF!!!
Outside the academic ivory tower in the real world we write programs to run on REAL hardware today -- not some imaginary future computer that has zero latency.
Hell, it was just a six years ago that Bjarne Stroustrup was so far out-of-touch with modern hardware and its L1 cache that he was surprised to learn that doubly linked lists give shitty cache usage.
Someday when you grow up you'll realize that (some) fans like to financially support creators. There is even a concept of Pay What You Want, shocking I know! /sarcasm
If YOU want to share, er pirate it, go ahead. But I want a legal option where I don't have to waste my time on bullshit copyright greed.
As much as I love the fan edits such as this one, and The Phantom Edit, legally one can't buy it due to corporate greed. :-/
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Greed is a cancer that destroys everything
Jar Jar Abrams. :-)
So why was it PROGRAMMED to be manipulative based on mimicking a human's voice???
Because only a child, or idiot can't tell the difference between an ACTUAL living animal and a dumb machine the dupes the gullible.
> It's simple compassion.
Are you really THAT fucking stupid that you can't tell the difference between a living animal and dumb machine that was PROGRAMMED to be manipulative based on mimicking a human's voice???
It's a fucking machine. Nothing more.
> Compassion has nothing to do with reality
Yeah, it is called intelligence.
When I watch an artificial reality, called a movie, and laugh when the "evil" antagonists murder the idiot protagonist that does NOT mean I lack compassion. Au contraire it means I am able to separate reality from fiction. As Mel Brooks famously said
Finding pleasure in the suffering of others in a virtual setting is comedy. Outside the artificial reality, aka, Real Life (TM) this would be borderline sadism. Actual adults are smart enough to know the difference between the two.
The fucking robot is NOT alive. It is just a dumb machine. The fact that you think "having compassion" for a glorified toaster makes me question your sanity. There is a time to be humane. Making some bullshit "compassion" argument over a robot is idiotic.
> But you cannot control compassion. Not possible. That's why movies work, even cartoons.
You sure as hell can manipulate people's emotions. WHY did they use a HUMAN's VOICE in the first place???
There is a reason TV shows use a Laugh Track and why movies have an orchestra score in order to manipulate people's feelings. Here, watch The Big Bang Theory - No Laugh Track 1 (Avoiding the Shamy) and you can see how a crap show is manipulated to appear funny.
You sure as hell can manipulate people into feeling that killing some "digital pixels" is "real".
i.e. Take one of the virtual genocide games, aka, First-Person-Shooter games. Now have one of the enemies be a kid, with a gun, shooting at you, and when you aim at them they say "Don't kill me mommy/daddy!".
Now tabulate who is dumb enough to think that "killing" some "digital pixels" is "real" and compare / contrast with the people who DON'T feel compassion. They are NOT ALL sociopaths -- some are actually smart enough to know WHEN to apply their emotions and when NOT to.
This experiment of the robot is no different.
Q. How do you wreck SW?
A. Add a J.
*ba dum tss*
WHEN can I buy the ORIGINAL theatrical release on Blu-Ray?
Exactly. I've posted about this in the past
Gee, give customers a LEGAL way to purchase old media and they are surprised people WANT to buy? Why the fuck isn't EVERYTHING (TV, Movies, 8-bit and 16-bit Games) already digitized already where we CAN purchase them? Hell, wasn't there just a story where the classic NES outsold the PS4, XBone, and Switch???
People WILL pay for nostalgia. Piracy just shows there is a DEMAND for it.
--
Stupid Juvenile Whiners "Logic"
*facepalm*
A/The force is NEITHER male nor female -- it doesn't procreate, it just is. Stop with the bullshit agenda already.
Spotted the Beats iHipster.
How is that 2014 Mac Mini or 2013 Mac Pro working out for you?
It has now been definitively proven that Apple understands marketing better than all the Apple-critics on Slashdot (and around the world).
FTFY.
Thanks for the utility name -- looks very cool !
https://github.com/bmrf/tron/b...