A microSD card? Honestly? What if microSD goes the way of the dodo soon? You should replace those with pictures of monolith-shaped smartphones showing pictures of clouds.
I think that copyright isn't designed to handle cases like this. That's a real issue, especially when we're talking about trivial code like that. Perhaps copyright needs a lower bar; some point where you can say: "This is too trivial to be covered." Of course we'd need to find a reasonable definition for what's copyrightable in terms of code and we'd need to get big media to agree, at least as far as US copyright is concerned.
This is a topic where badly-planned rules could end up doing more harm than good and I can't come up with anything reasonable right now. Anyone?
He wrote it for Sun/Oracle while working for Sun/Oracle, hence the copyright lies with Sun/Oracle. The fact that he wrote the lines doesn't change the fact that he doesn't own the copyright.
Things would be different if his employment contract with Sun/Oracle had said "All code produced by the employee is property of the employee and the employer merely gains a perpetual license to use and redistribute them" or if he had made a special deal about rangeCheck() to that effect. But that's highly unlikely.
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Well, since he was arrested under War on Climate provisions he is an enemy combatant and has no rights. In fact, they could even give him a Burger King milk shake and get away with it. (Well, Amnesty International will complain but that's about it.)
Well, since I already operate in a world where the defense budget is being spent on bloom-free lasers that can shoot around corners and are mounted on hypersonic space planes I'm fairly certain that we can earmark a few millions for 24/7-available generals on a steady supply of stimulants that allow them to make critical decisions within mere seconds. Ideally they will co-pilot the Blackbirds.
So we use faster planes. Put the laser on a Blackbird. Then make the Blackbird ten times faster and keep it in the air 24/7. Now that we've got fast response we need a better laser. Make one with more range that can attack missiles over the horizon. In fact, the Blackbirds should fly in LEO so they can get better coverage.
Just imagine the deterrent effect a fleet of always-active LEO-flying mach 30-capable Blackbirds with OTH-capable laser guns. That's clearly what the USA should sink a couple dozen billion Dollars into.
And no one would have complained if they had just sent the kid through the metal detector again instead of yelling, demanding a pat-down and then acting surprised when the kid objects.
I think every vacation spot outside the USA is very thankful for the existence of the TSA. Think of it less as a security measure and more of a measure to keep tourists out.
To be honest I first had "day/life" but decided to shorten it. Brevity is the soul of not getting -1, Flamebait, as the saying goes (no matter how uncontroversial that statement would've been).
"American cops are scary and can easily ruin your day so keep your distance and act inconspicious when you can't" seems like a perfectly good lesson to learn.
In my experience Apple is usually pretty good with replacing stuff that is broken on arrival. If I remember correctly they reacted to the Geforce bug fairly quickly once it was confirmed by Nvidia and back in the iBook days they made trading in the battery-shaped hand grenades Sony made for a real battery very quick and painless.
Of course promising four years of free repairs and then only doing three is a dick move. I'd expect more from Apple.
Remember that not everyone on/. is from the States. I only know Jerry Seinfeld because the sitcom he had in the 90s was named after him and, well, I grew up in the 90s. Apart from that he's pretty much a nobody in Germany. Comedy is a fairly regional thing so unlike "regular" actors (like Robin Williams who also showed up in this thread) comedians don't tend to have worldwide fame.
(On a similar note (and to reply to the parent's sibling) I know George Carlin mainly because he's occasionally referenced on the web but my knowledge is limited to "starred in a bad sitcom" and "makes dirty jokes". I only know what Richard Pryor looks like because the Nostalgia Critic made a big deal of him having a bad role in a Superman movie. I have no idea who Bill Hicks is. Sounds like one of those omnipotent talk radio hosts you have over there.)
Apple used to support Java as a first-class citizen. It was one one level with Carbon (the OS 9/OS X UI toolkit) and Cocoa (the OS X UI toolkit). Carbon has been deprecated because, well, it was only intended to make the switch from 9 to X easier and 9 has been dead forever. Java has been deprecated, too - it's now a second-class citizen like on other platforms and Apple's only officially backed environment for OS X development is Cocoa.
So it's not deprecated as in "you shouldn't use this anymore" but as in "it's no longer considered a core part of our ecosystem". It lost a status it never had elsewhere. Well, except Android, of course.
On the other hand that's also an argument for why HTML5 video is pointless: We already have Flash and it has a near-100% install base. HTML5 video doesn't add killer features; Flash already does pretty much everything we want in embedded video.
Oh, wait. Flash doesn't play well with mobile browsers. Just like ssh, really, since everytime you switch from one wireless cell to another you may get a new IP address, which would kick you out of your ssh session with no indication that it happened. Which is exactly what Mosh is designed to avoid. The local echo is not the primary feature here.
As for requiring ssh: You could suggest a completely standalone version to the developers. Perhaps Mosh v2 won't need ssh for setup then.
Penetration. Even today I can safely assume that any non-mobile visitor has Flash Player installed just like I can safely assume that every visitor has a JavaScript-capable browser. Mobile browsers are just now becoming important enough that we can no longer assume Flash to be omnipresent.
Note that I said "requires certain users to install third-party software". Until very recently Flash could reasonably be assumed to already be installed. Chrome Frame can't.
I wasn't aware that any Linux distribution developed its own HTML rendering engine. The ones I use only package ready-made stuff like WebKit or complete browsers. Now, admittedly, after a while the upgrade channels are no longer supported but you can generally expect that as long as a release is supported it can expect software upgrades. Microsoft tends to have Windows versions on "extended support" where they no longer receive things like new IE versions but are still "supported" and thus acceptable for companies to use.
Plus, other operating systems aren't nearly as badly affected as they don't ship browsers that use Trident as their rendering engine. Old versions of other engines lack support for certain things but mostly adhere to the specs. Old versions of Trident tend to deviate from the specs in weird ways or force web developers to deal with bizarre stuff like hasLayout.
The problem is not that old Windows versions have old components, it's that one of those old components (Trident) negatively affects the web by forcing web developers to implement arcane hacks for as long at it sticks around. Each version of IE after IE6 has gotten a little better but these things have a long half-life and they keep costing us time and money until they're obscure enough to be ignored.
You know, if Microsoft did put Google Chrome Frame into Windows Update as a heavily recommended update for obsolete Windows versions (XP and Vista) that would make life a lot easier. Win8 ships with IE10 and the others can semi-safely be assumed to run WebKit if asked, which should reduce the number of hacks needed for IE compatibility.
IE has changed and will have an annual release. IE 10 will be out soon and next year IE 11 will be out etc. Windows Update automatically updates to the latest browser now starting this year and IE 8 usage was only 13% this weekend according to g.statcounter.com! Corporations will have to update their browsers far more often compared to the past. It wont be like IE 6 since it was such a different beast from any browser or even version of itself.
If IE8 has a 13 % market share that means that my customers would lose approximately 13 % of their visitors by not having it supported. That's a hard sell. I can get away with it once IE8's market share drops below 5 %, although less would be better.
(Another problem is that I might need to support IE8's Trident until IE9 has died out due to hacks like CPP3PIE apparently only working in IE9 if IE8 compatibility mode is active. And no, "just don't use gradients" is not an option.)
Chrome Frame is not distributed through Windows Update and even if it were it probably wouldn't be a mandatory update. Thus I can't assume that everyone has it installed. Since "the website requires certain users to install third-party software" is unacceptable that means that Chrome Frame does exactly nothing to keep me from having to support decades-old IE versions.
Get Microsoft to distribute Chrome Frame with a Windows security update and I'll have a case. Until then I'll have to keep explicitly supporting old vesions of Trident.
Well, every web developer on Earth woud love it if Microsoft kicked every version of Windows that won't receive IE10 off the web. Yes, that's unreasonable but with Microsoft not believing in backports we get to support IE8 until XP has negligible marketshare, which will probably still be another decade. Having to code against that POS (and the only marginally better IE9, which will live for another decade after IE8) means a lot of redundant work and expenses.
It's been "spend half your time coding against the spec and the other half ironing out bizarre IE bugs" for far too long now. By now we shouldn't have to worry about whether an element "has layout" or how to set static dimensions on dynamic content so that IE won't do weird things when we want a float to overflow its parent.
Of course the best option would be to give up on Internet Explorer altogether and spare us all the horror that is Trident. Not like that would happen, either. I have little doubt that Microsoft will keep supplying us with half-baked IE versions with quirks that we need to support for decades because the users can't update IE without buying a new copy of Windows.
It's not that I hate America. I love this place, warts and all. But the election of 2000 was the first big sign that I noticed, and the fact that lynching is legal again in Florida is just one more straw on the camel. Can you imagine? More than 20 states have passed these "Stand Your Ground & Shoot a Black Guy" laws already, and if the American Legislative Exchange Council has it's way, it'll be coming soon to a state near me. Fuck that. With my guinea olive skin I would hate some cracker to mistake me for a brother when I'm out on a cold morning doing tai chi in the park with my hoodie up and put a few shots in my back because seeing a potential black guy doing tai chi was just too threatening for him.
Oh jeez, look at the time. I'm sorry I ran my mouth like this.
Could you elaborate or at give a searchable phrase for this? I'm not always up-to-date on US politics and this is the first time I hear about this.
Well, they're both. Blizzard doesn't sell the items but the game still seems to be optimized towards the the number of marketplace transactions being maximized. I can see no other reason for "let's force all players to play online and by ladder rules all the time".
Okay, there is another explanation, namely that Blizzard doesn't understand how to make a game that isn't a MMORPG but I don't really believe that.
Wrong. You're thinking that the issue is "people might use hacked characters in ladder games". The real problem they tried to solve is "people might not be optimally exposed to the marketplace". They want every character to be ladder so that every character will constantly have that marketplace in reach so that the number of purchases is maximized.
With Diablo 3 you are no longer the customer, you are the product. Which is a big reason why I'm going to buy Torchlight 2 instead.
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A microSD card? Honestly? What if microSD goes the way of the dodo soon? You should replace those with pictures of monolith-shaped smartphones showing pictures of clouds.
I think that copyright isn't designed to handle cases like this. That's a real issue, especially when we're talking about trivial code like that. Perhaps copyright needs a lower bar; some point where you can say: "This is too trivial to be covered." Of course we'd need to find a reasonable definition for what's copyrightable in terms of code and we'd need to get big media to agree, at least as far as US copyright is concerned.
This is a topic where badly-planned rules could end up doing more harm than good and I can't come up with anything reasonable right now. Anyone?
He wrote it for Sun/Oracle while working for Sun/Oracle, hence the copyright lies with Sun/Oracle. The fact that he wrote the lines doesn't change the fact that he doesn't own the copyright.
Things would be different if his employment contract with Sun/Oracle had said "All code produced by the employee is property of the employee and the employer merely gains a perpetual license to use and redistribute them" or if he had made a special deal about rangeCheck() to that effect. But that's highly unlikely.
I'm fairly certain that the Winchester Mansion looked like that at some point. At least on the inside.
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Well, since he was arrested under War on Climate provisions he is an enemy combatant and has no rights. In fact, they could even give him a Burger King milk shake and get away with it. (Well, Amnesty International will complain but that's about it.)
Well, since I already operate in a world where the defense budget is being spent on bloom-free lasers that can shoot around corners and are mounted on hypersonic space planes I'm fairly certain that we can earmark a few millions for 24/7-available generals on a steady supply of stimulants that allow them to make critical decisions within mere seconds. Ideally they will co-pilot the Blackbirds.
So we use faster planes. Put the laser on a Blackbird. Then make the Blackbird ten times faster and keep it in the air 24/7. Now that we've got fast response we need a better laser. Make one with more range that can attack missiles over the horizon. In fact, the Blackbirds should fly in LEO so they can get better coverage.
Just imagine the deterrent effect a fleet of always-active LEO-flying mach 30-capable Blackbirds with OTH-capable laser guns. That's clearly what the USA should sink a couple dozen billion Dollars into.
And no one would have complained if they had just sent the kid through the metal detector again instead of yelling, demanding a pat-down and then acting surprised when the kid objects.
I think every vacation spot outside the USA is very thankful for the existence of the TSA. Think of it less as a security measure and more of a measure to keep tourists out.
To be honest I first had "day/life" but decided to shorten it. Brevity is the soul of not getting -1, Flamebait, as the saying goes (no matter how uncontroversial that statement would've been).
Well, the reactions would depend on how the guy looks. And most likely the sexual preferences of the onlookers.
"American cops are scary and can easily ruin your day so keep your distance and act inconspicious when you can't" seems like a perfectly good lesson to learn.
In my experience Apple is usually pretty good with replacing stuff that is broken on arrival. If I remember correctly they reacted to the Geforce bug fairly quickly once it was confirmed by Nvidia and back in the iBook days they made trading in the battery-shaped hand grenades Sony made for a real battery very quick and painless.
Of course promising four years of free repairs and then only doing three is a dick move. I'd expect more from Apple.
Remember that not everyone on /. is from the States. I only know Jerry Seinfeld because the sitcom he had in the 90s was named after him and, well, I grew up in the 90s. Apart from that he's pretty much a nobody in Germany. Comedy is a fairly regional thing so unlike "regular" actors (like Robin Williams who also showed up in this thread) comedians don't tend to have worldwide fame.
(On a similar note (and to reply to the parent's sibling) I know George Carlin mainly because he's occasionally referenced on the web but my knowledge is limited to "starred in a bad sitcom" and "makes dirty jokes". I only know what Richard Pryor looks like because the Nostalgia Critic made a big deal of him having a bad role in a Superman movie. I have no idea who Bill Hicks is. Sounds like one of those omnipotent talk radio hosts you have over there.)
No, a Mac user.
Apple used to support Java as a first-class citizen. It was one one level with Carbon (the OS 9/OS X UI toolkit) and Cocoa (the OS X UI toolkit). Carbon has been deprecated because, well, it was only intended to make the switch from 9 to X easier and 9 has been dead forever. Java has been deprecated, too - it's now a second-class citizen like on other platforms and Apple's only officially backed environment for OS X development is Cocoa.
So it's not deprecated as in "you shouldn't use this anymore" but as in "it's no longer considered a core part of our ecosystem". It lost a status it never had elsewhere. Well, except Android, of course.
On the other hand that's also an argument for why HTML5 video is pointless: We already have Flash and it has a near-100% install base. HTML5 video doesn't add killer features; Flash already does pretty much everything we want in embedded video.
Oh, wait. Flash doesn't play well with mobile browsers. Just like ssh, really, since everytime you switch from one wireless cell to another you may get a new IP address, which would kick you out of your ssh session with no indication that it happened. Which is exactly what Mosh is designed to avoid. The local echo is not the primary feature here.
As for requiring ssh: You could suggest a completely standalone version to the developers. Perhaps Mosh v2 won't need ssh for setup then.
Penetration. Even today I can safely assume that any non-mobile visitor has Flash Player installed just like I can safely assume that every visitor has a JavaScript-capable browser. Mobile browsers are just now becoming important enough that we can no longer assume Flash to be omnipresent.
Note that I said "requires certain users to install third-party software". Until very recently Flash could reasonably be assumed to already be installed. Chrome Frame can't.
I wasn't aware that any Linux distribution developed its own HTML rendering engine. The ones I use only package ready-made stuff like WebKit or complete browsers. Now, admittedly, after a while the upgrade channels are no longer supported but you can generally expect that as long as a release is supported it can expect software upgrades. Microsoft tends to have Windows versions on "extended support" where they no longer receive things like new IE versions but are still "supported" and thus acceptable for companies to use.
Plus, other operating systems aren't nearly as badly affected as they don't ship browsers that use Trident as their rendering engine. Old versions of other engines lack support for certain things but mostly adhere to the specs. Old versions of Trident tend to deviate from the specs in weird ways or force web developers to deal with bizarre stuff like hasLayout.
The problem is not that old Windows versions have old components, it's that one of those old components (Trident) negatively affects the web by forcing web developers to implement arcane hacks for as long at it sticks around. Each version of IE after IE6 has gotten a little better but these things have a long half-life and they keep costing us time and money until they're obscure enough to be ignored.
You know, if Microsoft did put Google Chrome Frame into Windows Update as a heavily recommended update for obsolete Windows versions (XP and Vista) that would make life a lot easier. Win8 ships with IE10 and the others can semi-safely be assumed to run WebKit if asked, which should reduce the number of hacks needed for IE compatibility.
IE has changed and will have an annual release. IE 10 will be out soon and next year IE 11 will be out etc. Windows Update automatically updates to the latest browser now starting this year and IE 8 usage was only 13% this weekend according to g.statcounter.com! Corporations will have to update their browsers far more often compared to the past. It wont be like IE 6 since it was such a different beast from any browser or even version of itself.
If IE8 has a 13 % market share that means that my customers would lose approximately 13 % of their visitors by not having it supported. That's a hard sell. I can get away with it once IE8's market share drops below 5 %, although less would be better.
(Another problem is that I might need to support IE8's Trident until IE9 has died out due to hacks like CPP3PIE apparently only working in IE9 if IE8 compatibility mode is active. And no, "just don't use gradients" is not an option.)
Chrome Frame is not distributed through Windows Update and even if it were it probably wouldn't be a mandatory update. Thus I can't assume that everyone has it installed. Since "the website requires certain users to install third-party software" is unacceptable that means that Chrome Frame does exactly nothing to keep me from having to support decades-old IE versions.
Get Microsoft to distribute Chrome Frame with a Windows security update and I'll have a case. Until then I'll have to keep explicitly supporting old vesions of Trident.
Well, every web developer on Earth woud love it if Microsoft kicked every version of Windows that won't receive IE10 off the web. Yes, that's unreasonable but with Microsoft not believing in backports we get to support IE8 until XP has negligible marketshare, which will probably still be another decade. Having to code against that POS (and the only marginally better IE9, which will live for another decade after IE8) means a lot of redundant work and expenses.
It's been "spend half your time coding against the spec and the other half ironing out bizarre IE bugs" for far too long now. By now we shouldn't have to worry about whether an element "has layout" or how to set static dimensions on dynamic content so that IE won't do weird things when we want a float to overflow its parent.
Of course the best option would be to give up on Internet Explorer altogether and spare us all the horror that is Trident. Not like that would happen, either. I have little doubt that Microsoft will keep supplying us with half-baked IE versions with quirks that we need to support for decades because the users can't update IE without buying a new copy of Windows.
It's not that I hate America. I love this place, warts and all. But the election of 2000 was the first big sign that I noticed, and the fact that lynching is legal again in Florida is just one more straw on the camel. Can you imagine? More than 20 states have passed these "Stand Your Ground & Shoot a Black Guy" laws already, and if the American Legislative Exchange Council has it's way, it'll be coming soon to a state near me. Fuck that. With my guinea olive skin I would hate some cracker to mistake me for a brother when I'm out on a cold morning doing tai chi in the park with my hoodie up and put a few shots in my back because seeing a potential black guy doing tai chi was just too threatening for him.
Oh jeez, look at the time. I'm sorry I ran my mouth like this.
Could you elaborate or at give a searchable phrase for this? I'm not always up-to-date on US politics and this is the first time I hear about this.
Well, they're both. Blizzard doesn't sell the items but the game still seems to be optimized towards the the number of marketplace transactions being maximized. I can see no other reason for "let's force all players to play online and by ladder rules all the time".
Okay, there is another explanation, namely that Blizzard doesn't understand how to make a game that isn't a MMORPG but I don't really believe that.
Wrong. You're thinking that the issue is "people might use hacked characters in ladder games". The real problem they tried to solve is "people might not be optimally exposed to the marketplace". They want every character to be ladder so that every character will constantly have that marketplace in reach so that the number of purchases is maximized.
With Diablo 3 you are no longer the customer, you are the product. Which is a big reason why I'm going to buy Torchlight 2 instead.