I know it was actually reduced from 4 years to 3 months because of the 'novelty' of the conviction but what happens when someone else gets caught and it isn't novel any more?
4 years is lunacy. Some murderers and rapists serve less that. It just goes to show how biassed/corrupted the US legal system can be by corporate power.
The person doing the suing is totally misguided and obviously trying to extort money through fear rather than having an actual case.
How could someone sue another site owner over his google ranking? He has no control over how google rank his site, unless he paid google, which is perfectly legal anyway. At least they should be suing google, but probably decided they'd be destined to lose.
Anyway google don't hide the fact that they sell search ranking order as a product/service.
They're always engineering crappy half-solutions that are worse than nothing at all, and always involve using more resources and sending out more personal information.
When are they gonna engineer something properly? If nearly every open-source/linux programmer can do it, why can't Microsoft?
>> the instructor was explicit about not taking (shooting) an animal if you would not be able to harvest it.
You know you're doing something wrong when you have to find alternative words to talk about it in public. Who gives a crap if you eat it or not? you're still ending its life prematurely, unnecessarily and usually painfully.
>> EVERY hunter's goal (be it game hunting or varmint hunting) is to make a humane shot (aka a shot that kills the animal with little or no pain involved).
That might be their goal, but it frequently isn't the result.
>> it's about understanding a human's place in the ecosystem and coming to terms with our natural history
why can't you think about that without blowing some beautiful wild animals brains out?
>> Certainly there are some people who are bloodthirsty, but that doesn't mean that everyone who hunts is.
Of course it does. Anyone with half a brain and who isn't bloodthirsty would prefer the continuation of natural beauty from the animal continuing to live. Or do you find a field full of corpses attractive?
>> If you eat meat and have never hunted, you are not taking responsibility for your actions by letting someone else do your dirty work.
Bullcrap. I am taking more responsibility, by ensuring the animal get killed by professionals in a regulated humane way. Don't even try and tell me hunting is humane. I have work colleagues who hunt and they're always talking about finding half-dead animals that have been wandering for days/weeks since being shot by some psychopath with a gun or a crossbow.
>> but a lot of people really do hunt for the meat
bullcrap. Hunters spend $1000's of dollars and infinite time on guns, camo gear, face paint, deer piss aftershave, beer, off road vehicle, hunting licence, accomodation, etc. to get like 1 or 2 hundred dollars worth of meat.
Don't try and tell me it wouldn't be cheaper for them just to buy the meat.
like its a gift to net-abusers like spammers, child porners, etc. I hope they make sure that they get good ID of everyone who hosts stuff on their service and don't have some loophole where people can set up accounts with anonymous/fake ID.
Making windows run on the OLPC laptop has nothing to do with perceived marketability. Microsoft are just trying to establish/maintain a monopoly on schools software. They are trying to brainwash kids into the microsoft mentality so they've got customers for life.
Err.. interestingly I am currently working on a flight system for the Airbus A400M. Its all C.
No Boeing aren't using Java for flight systems, except on unmanned vehicles. Java won't ever be DO-178B certified so the FAA wouldn't allow it near an actual flight system.
Software for life-critical systems must be certified before it can be used. Certification is a rigorous process, in which both the development environment and the quality of the software itself are evaluated. Aviation software, for instance, must be developed according to the DO-178B standard.
A DO-178B compliant development process yields not only the software itself, but also a huge amount of documents in which every aspect of the software and its development is described and recorded. This makes such processes very expensive, and not everyone is prepared to follow such standards.
Even if you produce Java software in a DO-178B compliant process, you are still dependent on a JRE whose DO-178B compliance is realistically impossible. This implies that the whole application (including your own compliant parts) is not compliant and can not be certified.
Memory management based on garbage collection interfere with real-time requirements, so you won't find java-based flight systems.
>> Of course surgeons don't use plastic scissors. But how often do you need a surgeon?
OK you're taking my broken analogy out of context:-)
What I rweally mean is that presuming you're developing software, its always better to have a good software engineer than a mediocre one, which is what java/C# allow people to get away with being.
>> And don't get me started on 3rd party C++ libraries. You'll need tons of them to move a finger,
Huh what? I never use 3rd party libraries and I've been developing software in C++ for about 15 years. OK I don't do any gui code, and like any other good sw engineer I have built up my own code base of reusable items, but that just comes for free if you do good abstraction anyway.
probably because its quicker for me to write something in C++ than java/C##, and also because the compiuled executable is fast and doesn't neeed a vm and a whole bunch of installed libraries to run.
To all those people saying C++ is too dangerous/prone to errors and Java/C## is the way ahead: Stop blaming the tools and look to yourselves.
C++ is like a sharp scalpel. Yes you can hurt yourself if you're unskilled, inexperienced or sloppy. Java and C# are like those scissors with rounded ends for kids. Totally inefficent but safe for beginners.
Unfortunately it seems that there are a lot of people out there who like to call themselves programmers but have no actual ability. Java/C## does a good job of removing their need to think and hiding their inate lack of skill which is why they prefer it.
But there's a reason why surgeons don't use plastic scissors. The same applies to good software engineers.
to even get a patent when there is so much obvious prior art already in exisitence? Are the patent office asleep? More to the point, why can apple think they stand a chance in court? Surely everyone apple attempts to sue can easily get out of it by proving they had prior art?
The trend seems to be that most quality games are getting a LOT shorter. Doom 3 and Half-life 2 were way shorter than they should have been.
The most recent tomb-raider was ridiculously short and took about a weekend to go from start to finish. I remember the original tomb-raider as taking me weeks of play.
Thankfully oblivion is excellent and has lasted a good long time so far !
yet his foundation ONLY give to charities doing drug research and other human health issues. I mean its not like there aren't already enough other charities throwing millions at already massively rich drug companies who just sell products that address symptoms and have no interest in making cures.
Just like the current president and most of the rest of the US, Gates clearly doesn't give a damn about finding alternatives to the massive damage to the environment that the US continues to cause (about 10 times more trash and pollution per US citizen than any other nationality).
The rest of the world is aware of the importance and significance of looking after our own planet and is already taking preventative measures though, so Gates would be another terrible president.
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I know it was actually reduced from 4 years to 3 months because of the 'novelty' of the conviction but what happens when someone else gets caught and it isn't novel any more?
4 years is lunacy. Some murderers and rapists serve less that. It just goes to show how biassed/corrupted the US legal system can be by corporate power.
Thats scary that christianity is brainwashing kids like that.
The person doing the suing is totally misguided and obviously trying to extort money through fear rather than having an actual case.
How could someone sue another site owner over his google ranking? He has no control over how google rank his site, unless he paid google, which is perfectly legal anyway. At least they should be suing google, but probably decided they'd be destined to lose.
Anyway google don't hide the fact that they sell search ranking order as a product/service.
They're always engineering crappy half-solutions that are worse than nothing at all, and always involve using more resources and sending out more personal information.
When are they gonna engineer something properly? If nearly every open-source/linux programmer can do it, why can't Microsoft?
mod parent up 1 for use of the word 'thus'. :-)
>> the instructor was explicit about not taking (shooting) an animal if you would not be able to harvest it.
You know you're doing something wrong when you have to find alternative words to talk about it in public. Who gives a crap if you eat it or not? you're still ending its life prematurely, unnecessarily and usually painfully.
>> EVERY hunter's goal (be it game hunting or varmint hunting) is to make a humane shot (aka a shot that kills the animal with little or no pain involved).
That might be their goal, but it frequently isn't the result.
>> it's about understanding a human's place in the ecosystem and coming to terms with our natural history
why can't you think about that without blowing some beautiful wild animals brains out?
>> Certainly there are some people who are bloodthirsty, but that doesn't mean that everyone who hunts is.
Of course it does. Anyone with half a brain and who isn't bloodthirsty would prefer the continuation of natural beauty from the animal continuing to live. Or do you find a field full of corpses attractive?
>> If you eat meat and have never hunted, you are not taking responsibility for your actions by letting someone else do your dirty work.
Bullcrap. I am taking more responsibility, by ensuring the animal get killed by professionals in a regulated humane way. Don't even try and tell me hunting is humane. I have work colleagues who hunt and they're always talking about finding half-dead animals that have been wandering for days/weeks since being shot by some psychopath with a gun or a crossbow.
>> but a lot of people really do hunt for the meat
bullcrap. Hunters spend $1000's of dollars and infinite time on guns, camo gear, face paint, deer piss aftershave, beer, off road vehicle, hunting licence, accomodation, etc. to get like 1 or 2 hundred dollars worth of meat.
Don't try and tell me it wouldn't be cheaper for them just to buy the meat.
>> and open the fun of hunting to more people
the 'fun' of blowing some cute little woodland creature's brains out?
People like you should have to get therapy, you freak.
like its a gift to net-abusers like spammers, child porners, etc.
I hope they make sure that they get good ID of everyone who hosts stuff on their service and don't have some loophole where people can set up accounts with anonymous/fake ID.
what yahoo actually does that isn't done better by someone else or just totally redundant?
To me they seem to be a sort of second AOL.
all my respect for ECMA.
the real problem is that these stupid people are giving their whole lives to their employers.
Making windows run on the OLPC laptop has nothing to do with perceived marketability.
Microsoft are just trying to establish/maintain a monopoly on schools software. They are trying to brainwash kids into the microsoft mentality so they've got customers for life.
Err.. interestingly I am currently working on a flight system for the Airbus A400M. Its all C.
No Boeing aren't using Java for flight systems, except on unmanned vehicles. Java won't ever be DO-178B certified so the FAA wouldn't allow it near an actual flight system.
Software for life-critical systems must be certified before it can be used. Certification is a rigorous process, in which both the development environment and the quality of the software itself are evaluated. Aviation software, for instance, must be developed according to the DO-178B standard.
A DO-178B compliant development process yields not only the software itself, but also a huge amount of documents in which every aspect of the software and its development is described and recorded. This makes such processes very expensive, and not everyone is prepared to follow such standards.
Even if you produce Java software in a DO-178B compliant process, you are still dependent on a JRE whose DO-178B compliance is realistically impossible. This implies that the whole application (including your own compliant parts) is not compliant and can not be certified.
Memory management based on garbage collection interfere with real-time requirements, so you won't find java-based flight systems.
>> However, the BitTorrent protocol enables content distributors like Azureus to share large files using much less bandwidth."
Sure if you don't want to watch it today.
>> Of course surgeons don't use plastic scissors. But how often do you need a surgeon?
:-)
OK you're taking my broken analogy out of context
What I rweally mean is that presuming you're developing software, its always better to have a good software engineer than a mediocre one, which is what java/C# allow people to get away with being.
>> And don't get me started on 3rd party C++ libraries. You'll need tons of them to move a finger,
Huh what? I never use 3rd party libraries and I've been developing software in C++ for about 15 years. OK I don't do any gui code, and like any other good sw engineer I have built up my own code base of reusable items, but that just comes for free if you do good abstraction anyway.
probably because its quicker for me to write something in C++ than java/C##, and also because the compiuled executable is fast and doesn't neeed a vm and a whole bunch of installed libraries to run.
To all those people saying C++ is too dangerous/prone to errors and Java/C## is the way ahead:
Stop blaming the tools and look to yourselves.
C++ is like a sharp scalpel. Yes you can hurt yourself if you're unskilled, inexperienced or sloppy.
Java and C# are like those scissors with rounded ends for kids. Totally inefficent but safe for beginners.
Unfortunately it seems that there are a lot of people out there who like to call themselves programmers but have no actual ability. Java/C## does a good job of removing their need to think and hiding their inate lack of skill which is why they prefer it.
But there's a reason why surgeons don't use plastic scissors. The same applies to good software engineers.
Because all people that any bank would be interested in know at least one language.
In fact I bet you can't name any (not mentally or physically disabled) group of people who don't underestand any language at all.
Also (pin) numbers are numbers, and are the same in any language.
Also when someone uses a ATM, they're gonna have to be able to read the screen anyway.
to even get a patent when there is so much obvious prior art already in exisitence?
Are the patent office asleep?
More to the point, why can apple think they stand a chance in court?
Surely everyone apple attempts to sue can easily get out of it by proving they had prior art?
why is the bank assuming (or even finding) that poor people can't remember pin numbers?
>> -- a discovery that may lead to bright new apple varieties
God I hope not. I'd much rather eat food that hasn't had its genes constructed in a lab.
The trend seems to be that most quality games are getting a LOT shorter. Doom 3 and Half-life 2 were way shorter than they should have been.
The most recent tomb-raider was ridiculously short and took about a weekend to go from start to finish. I remember the original tomb-raider as taking me weeks of play.
Thankfully oblivion is excellent and has lasted a good long time so far !
yet his foundation ONLY give to charities doing drug research and other human health issues. I mean its not like there aren't already enough other charities throwing millions at already massively rich drug companies who just sell products that address symptoms and have no interest in making cures.
Just like the current president and most of the rest of the US, Gates clearly doesn't give a damn about finding alternatives to the massive damage to the environment that the US continues to cause (about 10 times more trash and pollution per US citizen than any other nationality).
The rest of the world is aware of the importance and significance of looking after our own planet and is already taking preventative measures though, so Gates would be another terrible president.