unless you keep the same computer in working condition forever, you eventually lose all of the music you purchased and have to rebuy it for the next computer.
That's not true of Apple's DRM. You can transfer the music to another computer, and it will still play. You can do this with up to three computers. If you move to a fourth computer, you can deauthorize one or more of the others and reset the count. I've done this myself.
It is most certainly NOT the most lenient you can get. The most lenient you could get would allow infinite copies to be burned onto cd and it would allow you to copy the file onto an infinite number of computers and play it.
I think by "most lenient you can get," he meant the most lenient that you can, you know, actually go and find and purchase. What you've described is the most lenient possible DRM. No-one offers that; any company that would offer the most lenient possible DRM would instead just offer un-protected music. Many companies do that, of course, but since their offerings have no DRM at all, they are outside the scope of this discussion (which, to refresh your memory, is "iTunes is the least restrictive DRM you can get").
Most people hire a lawyer after they get sued or arrested and charged with a crime. When someone hires a lawyer and they aren't charged with a crime or arrested with a charge against them, it makes me question why they have a lawyer in the first place.
People like you and me hire lawyers when we're sued. Rich people use lawyers far more often. Those lawyers (and, presumably, Jobs' lawyer) are specialists in various fields of law or regulation, and are hired to make things go smoothly and provide advice in their various fields.
Television tells us that, often, a rich person has a "lawyer on retainer" to deal with miscellaneous problems like bogus parking tickets or whatever.
It's still fraud if the backdating occurred, and it's no less serious just because Apple pre-empted any SEC investigations. Most criminals don't get off scot-free just because they turn themselves in when it becomes obvious that the authorities are about to arrest them.
I don't think that is a valid analogy. With most crime, it's a simple matter to know whether you are obeying the law or not. You can turn yourself in, but everyone knows that you broke the law, and everyone knows that you know.
But when you get into the realms of SEC regulations and abstractions like the date of an option, it is much more complicated. You could be breaking the law without knowing it. In fact, as far as I can tell, this whole "back-dated options" thing could reasonably have been considered legal until just this year. I guess the SEC issued a clarification or something.
In a situation like this, motive is important. Were you intending to break the law, or did you think it was legal? A self-investigation indicates that you weren't intending any wrong-doing.
And this is the way it should be. Wrong-doing is not always a black-and-white thing. You could be doing something morally okay, but legally wrong, or morally wrong but legally okay. Some laws are dumb, and sometimes you honestly don't know that something is illegal. This is why we have judges and juries, instead of throwing the book at every offense. We've got to allow leeway when the situation calls for it.
Plus there is no advantage I've noticed to putting that much power into your movements. In all the games I've played so far, timing is more important than raw power.
Yeah, that's web development. Their code samples are right there on the intarweb. But if you're hiring for an embedded developer, or application developer, or any other kind of developer it's a bit harder.
Today... what good are guns against tanks, or missiles? Even if they were legal to own, how many people could actually afford them?
Well, that depends on how broadly you construe the term "guns." A rocket launcher is pretty darn effective, and I might be able to afford one if my local gun shops could start selling 'em.
Which means you learn nothing other than a new syntax to program your same old style in (i.e, nothing worthwhile)....If you're really short of time, you're better off using it to learn Erlang, Prolog, or Smalltalk.
You missed the part where I said "explore out from there." Erlang, Prolog, and (to a lesser extent) Smalltalk have steep initial learning curves. It's hard to ease into those language and do something useful right away. With Dylan, the o.p. can program in a style he is used to, but gradually adapt newer techniques as he becomes comfortable with them.
The o.p. had already mentioned LISP, and said he didn't have the time to deal with learning so much new stuff all at once. My suggestion was for an advanced language with less to initially learn.
I think Lisp holds at least a lot of promise for helping development (though I'm not totally convinced), it's just that I don't have time to learn not only a new language but in some sense a new paradigm right now.
You can probably start with Dylan. It has similarities to Common Lisp and Scheme, but it uses a traditional infix notation. Paradigm-wise, it starts out a lot like C + structs, and you can explore out from there.
But at my uni around half of the students know some programming already when starting out.
And then you've got to un-teach everything they learned wrong. It's easier for them to make a clean break from past bad habits if you give them a whole new language to play with. It doesn't even have to be Pascal; depending on what you want them to learn, Logo might be better.:)
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But you're right, Korean wood architecture is pretty and colorful.
And I had planned to follow the link even before I saw this post (which ought to be modded up funny).
It's a pity the likes of home depot and lowes don't stock switched sockets
Switched sockets are commonly used in kitchen and bathrooms. You might try looking in those sections.
unless you keep the same computer in working condition forever, you eventually lose all of the music you purchased and have to rebuy it for the next computer.
That's not true of Apple's DRM. You can transfer the music to another computer, and it will still play. You can do this with up to three computers. If you move to a fourth computer, you can deauthorize one or more of the others and reset the count. I've done this myself.
I think by "most lenient you can get," he meant the most lenient that you can, you know, actually go and find and purchase. What you've described is the most lenient possible DRM. No-one offers that; any company that would offer the most lenient possible DRM would instead just offer un-protected music. Many companies do that, of course, but since their offerings have no DRM at all, they are outside the scope of this discussion (which, to refresh your memory, is "iTunes is the least restrictive DRM you can get").
People like you and me hire lawyers when we're sued. Rich people use lawyers far more often. Those lawyers (and, presumably, Jobs' lawyer) are specialists in various fields of law or regulation, and are hired to make things go smoothly and provide advice in their various fields.
Television tells us that, often, a rich person has a "lawyer on retainer" to deal with miscellaneous problems like bogus parking tickets or whatever.
I don't think that is a valid analogy. With most crime, it's a simple matter to know whether you are obeying the law or not. You can turn yourself in, but everyone knows that you broke the law, and everyone knows that you know.
But when you get into the realms of SEC regulations and abstractions like the date of an option, it is much more complicated. You could be breaking the law without knowing it. In fact, as far as I can tell, this whole "back-dated options" thing could reasonably have been considered legal until just this year. I guess the SEC issued a clarification or something.
In a situation like this, motive is important. Were you intending to break the law, or did you think it was legal? A self-investigation indicates that you weren't intending any wrong-doing.
And this is the way it should be. Wrong-doing is not always a black-and-white thing. You could be doing something morally okay, but legally wrong, or morally wrong but legally okay. Some laws are dumb, and sometimes you honestly don't know that something is illegal. This is why we have judges and juries, instead of throwing the book at every offense. We've got to allow leeway when the situation calls for it.
Sony: You will never tap the full potential of the PS3!
Developer: Is that a challenge? *cracks knuckles*
Sony: Cha-ching! We got a new game!
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/11/13
Me not speaking English good? That's unpossible!
I always zeppelins to make a come-back. It looks like they are currently used only for sightseeing and surveying, though.
I don't suppose this new hot-air balloon can compete. It really does look like a cross between a blimp and balloon, though.
"That's no moon -- that's a file server!"
Yeah, that's web development. Their code samples are right there on the intarweb. But if you're hiring for an embedded developer, or application developer, or any other kind of developer it's a bit harder.
Today... what good are guns against tanks, or missiles? Even if they were legal to own, how many people could actually afford them?
Well, that depends on how broadly you construe the term "guns." A rocket launcher is pretty darn effective, and I might be able to afford one if my local gun shops could start selling 'em.
Which means you learn nothing other than a new syntax to program your same old style in (i.e, nothing worthwhile)....If you're really short of time, you're better off using it to learn Erlang, Prolog, or Smalltalk.
You missed the part where I said "explore out from there." Erlang, Prolog, and (to a lesser extent) Smalltalk have steep initial learning curves. It's hard to ease into those language and do something useful right away. With Dylan, the o.p. can program in a style he is used to, but gradually adapt newer techniques as he becomes comfortable with them.
The o.p. had already mentioned LISP, and said he didn't have the time to deal with learning so much new stuff all at once. My suggestion was for an advanced language with less to initially learn.
You can probably start with Dylan. It has similarities to Common Lisp and Scheme, but it uses a traditional infix notation. Paradigm-wise, it starts out a lot like C + structs, and you can explore out from there.
And then you've got to un-teach everything they learned wrong. It's easier for them to make a clean break from past bad habits if you give them a whole new language to play with. It doesn't even have to be Pascal; depending on what you want them to learn, Logo might be better.
Whoah, slow down, cowboy. Let's just see what the Supreme Court says about that, aight?
VAGINA-Code?
Yeah, me too. I had a moment of pure cosmic horror... *rimshot*
I can find "intellectual rigor mortis" easily enough...
You turned out to be correct, sir.
Sacrilege! Burn the unbeliever! Burrrnnn him!!!
Yes, but in Soviet Russia...
The opposite of the white of rice on a paper plate in a snowstorm.
There must be more to it than that. As another poster pointed out, animals, even fruit flies, die if not allowed to sleep.