It's funny how people are crying over this invasion of their rights. Fine. The police are horrible people. I'll accept that for the sake of the discussion.
But consider the opposite side of the equation... if you are able. What if the system was only 50% sucessful? Isn't that at least a high enough success rate to send out a cop to personally ID the guy? What's the difference between this system, and some old lady down the street calling in to the cops saying she recognized the guy from the photo in the post office?
Or do we just cease trying to catch criminals, just because we might make a mistake in identification and cause someone an afternoon of grief? Do we really need to jump of the far left deep end in order to be good people?
Weird. I use FreeBSD, and when I got my new camera, ALL I did was plug it in, and it worked. No drivers, no funky configuration, no gphoto, no nothing. Just plug in it. Up opened a folder with my pictures, and I dragged them off into my photos directory. Simple.
Funny thing though, whenever I try to use my camera with a Windows system, it asks me to insert the non-existant driver CD...
Actually, the ripping *IS* against the DMCA. Don't confuse copyright with the GPL. The GPL may only "kick in" upon distribution, but copyright kicks in on the actual act of copying.
I know a few game programmers. All of them say it's a feast-or-famine industry. One is a children's camp counselor to put food on the table between programming jobs.
It would be much better to take the more conservative degree path. This isn't the 1950's anymore, people change careers all the time. Unless you're the extremely rare exception, you're not going to be a professional game developer all your life. You could end up writing realtime embedded software for a space probe. So get the more general degree, as you have no idea what you're going to be programming ten years from now.
This is especially true for a degree like "Game and Media Integration". That may sound cool to you, but to hiring managers, that doesn't sound too impressive. You and I know that game programming requires an advanced skill set, but most people out in the real world would see it as a second rate degree.
Some credit was given to the internet for high voter turnout in this month's election/em
Actually, the credit should go to both sides for their scare-mongering... which somewhat counteracted the negative campaigning by both sides which tends to keep people away from elections. It's a fine balance, but this time around *both* sides managed to convince their base that the fate of modern civilization rested on the voter.
Have you stopped to consider that healthcare costs get jacked up BECAUSE it isn't a free market?
Who actually does the shopping for health care? It isn't you, all you shop for is insurance. It is the insurance companies and the government who does the shopping, But they are NOT the patient! The government directly and indirectly encourages a third party payment system, that bypasses normal market price calculations. A far better system is for the patient (the consumer) to purchase medical care directly from the doctor (the producer). This also makes welfare much simpler (and cheaper), as we simply give the poor medical care stamps (or vouchers if you prefer).
Because the US system still has a lot of market forces working in it, we have ended up with one of the world's best health care systems (just not the cheapest). It is possible to keep the variety and value of the US system while still managing to provide near universal care. But you're not going to do it by handing it over to politicians and bureaucrats.
Someone answer me this question: why is it anytime someone mentions the free market, people assume an extreme anarcho-capitalism was meant? All of the arguments here are directed NOT at free markets, but at non-existant straw men!
Oh oh! We can't have free speech because then someone might yell "fire" in a crowded theater! Won't someone think of the children!
What if an incompetent *licensed* doctor kills you? Should you then complain to the central bureaucratic authority? It wasn't the licensing or lack of licensing that killed you, it was the incompentence. Some of the dumbest people I know have professional certifications or licenses of one kind or another.
99.5% uptime is phenominal... if you're using Windows. Windows is okay as a desktop system. But it does NOT scale up to being a reliable backbone for an enterprise network. But for some totally brain dead reason (probably because everyone else is doing it too), the medical industry as a whole has chosen Windows as its standard. To the point that a former employer of mine standardized on WinXP/C#/.NET as the mandatory framework for hard realtime embedded diagnostic and monitoring systems.
Perhaps this might make people start to question their choice of Windows as a one-size-fits-all solution.
The first word in "free market" is "free". That's free as in unhindered, unrestricted, unencumbered, etc. The US medical industry is not a free market, as there is a bewildering array of non-market forces hindering, restricting and encumbering it.
The verdict was "guilty as charged" and the penalty is "fix it or die."
Fix it? Fix what? Without knowing WHAT is wrong, or even IF anything is wrong, we cannot begin to fix it. So far the science has not been able to tell us what is wrong.
What we DO know is that we have had cold periods in the past and warm periods in the past. We had a mini-ice age within recorded history, and a major ice age only ten thousand years ago. There have been relatively recent era in which the climate has been much warmer than today. The question isn't whether the climate is changing, the questions are whether the warming is a long term trend, how much of it is attributable to humans, how costly are the solutions, and whether the solutions are even going to be effective.
It is a mixture of cherry-picking, downright misrepresentation, and pseudo-scientific gibberish. Are they talking about the propagandists or debunkers?
Ten years ago I was being told that Microsoft was a juggernaut that would squash anything in it's way. I was given all the usual tripe. That Sun would be out of business, that Linus Torvalds would be in jail for treason, that Gates would be knocking on my door to collect my firstborn. None of it happened.
There is no monopoly. There is only a large marketshare. For the past ten years, during the very period of time everyone was telling me I had no choice, I have been using non-Microsoft systems. Currently I am using FreeBSD on my desktop and Mac OSX on my laptop. The only Windows I have is on my work-supplied laptop, and that's on a *secondary* partition. I can tell Bill Gates to "bite me" with no fear of repercussion.
Sun is still going strong (and still stuck in their perpetual layoff/hire cycle). Solaris is still the workstation of choice, whose chief competition comes from Santa Clara instead of Redmond.
Apple, the perpetually dying platform, is doing gangbusters. Sure, Microsoft gave them some money. But the very first thing they did with it was to come out with Safari and dump Internet Explorer. The OSX desktop is just starting to explode on the scene. I work with a lot of software companies, and most of them are moving into the Mac market for the very first time.
During the very height of the Microsoft monopoly, Linux went from an obscure kernel project to a major player in the server and embedded markets with lots of inroads to the desktop. And it's not just because Open Source is the equivalent of "price dumping", because the service side of things isn't inexpensive.
OpenOffice and Firefox have shown that high quality productivity tools don't need to come from Redmond.
So where's the monopoly? What is stopping me, or anyone else, from not using Microsoft products? It may be still be hard to find pre-bundled Linux systems, but pre-bundled Mac OSX systems are just one aisle over. That's just on the desktop side. On the server side only the true-blue Microsoft fan still uses Windows on the server.
Until Qt is released under a non-viral open-source license...
Good news, it is. Under X11, Qt is released under a dual license, one half of which is the non-viral QPL. If one of your target platforms is X11, then the QPL applies to all of them. In addition, Trolltech has publically said that any valid Free or Open Source license is suitable for applications using Qt.
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I've used one of these, and trust me, it ain't a $20 keyboard. More like a $89.95 keyboard.
See? That's what happens when you let Italy into the EU!
And yet, if a jury says a guy is innocent, what can anyone do about it?
So you're saying we shouldn't even try to catch the armed and presumed dangerous felon?
It's funny how people are crying over this invasion of their rights. Fine. The police are horrible people. I'll accept that for the sake of the discussion.
But consider the opposite side of the equation... if you are able. What if the system was only 50% sucessful? Isn't that at least a high enough success rate to send out a cop to personally ID the guy? What's the difference between this system, and some old lady down the street calling in to the cops saying she recognized the guy from the photo in the post office?
Or do we just cease trying to catch criminals, just because we might make a mistake in identification and cause someone an afternoon of grief? Do we really need to jump of the far left deep end in order to be good people?
Weird. I use FreeBSD, and when I got my new camera, ALL I did was plug it in, and it worked. No drivers, no funky configuration, no gphoto, no nothing. Just plug in it. Up opened a folder with my pictures, and I dragged them off into my photos directory. Simple.
Funny thing though, whenever I try to use my camera with a Windows system, it asks me to insert the non-existant driver CD...
Here's a link to the US Copyright Office. http://www.copyright.gov/title17/ Specifically look at the exclusive rights given to authors: http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#106 Most other nations will have similar provisions.
Actually, the ripping *IS* against the DMCA. Don't confuse copyright with the GPL. The GPL may only "kick in" upon distribution, but copyright kicks in on the actual act of copying.
I know a few game programmers. All of them say it's a feast-or-famine industry. One is a children's camp counselor to put food on the table between programming jobs.
It would be much better to take the more conservative degree path. This isn't the 1950's anymore, people change careers all the time. Unless you're the extremely rare exception, you're not going to be a professional game developer all your life. You could end up writing realtime embedded software for a space probe. So get the more general degree, as you have no idea what you're going to be programming ten years from now.
This is especially true for a degree like "Game and Media Integration". That may sound cool to you, but to hiring managers, that doesn't sound too impressive. You and I know that game programming requires an advanced skill set, but most people out in the real world would see it as a second rate degree.
Some credit was given to the internet for high voter turnout in this month's election/em
Actually, the credit should go to both sides for their scare-mongering... which somewhat counteracted the negative campaigning by both sides which tends to keep people away from elections. It's a fine balance, but this time around *both* sides managed to convince their base that the fate of modern civilization rested on the voter.
Obligatory Miguel de Icaza quote: "But Microsoft would never do anything mean to us!"
Have you stopped to consider that healthcare costs get jacked up BECAUSE it isn't a free market?
Who actually does the shopping for health care? It isn't you, all you shop for is insurance. It is the insurance companies and the government who does the shopping, But they are NOT the patient! The government directly and indirectly encourages a third party payment system, that bypasses normal market price calculations. A far better system is for the patient (the consumer) to purchase medical care directly from the doctor (the producer). This also makes welfare much simpler (and cheaper), as we simply give the poor medical care stamps (or vouchers if you prefer).
Because the US system still has a lot of market forces working in it, we have ended up with one of the world's best health care systems (just not the cheapest). It is possible to keep the variety and value of the US system while still managing to provide near universal care. But you're not going to do it by handing it over to politicians and bureaucrats.
Someone answer me this question: why is it anytime someone mentions the free market, people assume an extreme anarcho-capitalism was meant? All of the arguments here are directed NOT at free markets, but at non-existant straw men!
Oh oh! We can't have free speech because then someone might yell "fire" in a crowded theater! Won't someone think of the children!
What if an incompetent *licensed* doctor kills you? Should you then complain to the central bureaucratic authority? It wasn't the licensing or lack of licensing that killed you, it was the incompentence. Some of the dumbest people I know have professional certifications or licenses of one kind or another.
Last week's employee meeting:
Marketing gal: "Great news, I wrote a Visual Basic program to access the customer support database! All of our problems are solved!"
99.5% uptime is phenominal... if you're using Windows. Windows is okay as a desktop system. But it does NOT scale up to being a reliable backbone for an enterprise network. But for some totally brain dead reason (probably because everyone else is doing it too), the medical industry as a whole has chosen Windows as its standard. To the point that a former employer of mine standardized on WinXP/C#/.NET as the mandatory framework for hard realtime embedded diagnostic and monitoring systems.
Perhaps this might make people start to question their choice of Windows as a one-size-fits-all solution.
Nah...
The first word in "free market" is "free". That's free as in unhindered, unrestricted, unencumbered, etc. The US medical industry is not a free market, as there is a bewildering array of non-market forces hindering, restricting and encumbering it.
...and humans are the cause.
But the scientists (as a group) are NOT saying that. Only some politicians and various media outlets are.
The verdict was "guilty as charged" and the penalty is "fix it or die."
Fix it? Fix what? Without knowing WHAT is wrong, or even IF anything is wrong, we cannot begin to fix it. So far the science has not been able to tell us what is wrong.
What we DO know is that we have had cold periods in the past and warm periods in the past. We had a mini-ice age within recorded history, and a major ice age only ten thousand years ago. There have been relatively recent era in which the climate has been much warmer than today. The question isn't whether the climate is changing, the questions are whether the warming is a long term trend, how much of it is attributable to humans, how costly are the solutions, and whether the solutions are even going to be effective.
It is a mixture of cherry-picking, downright misrepresentation, and pseudo-scientific gibberish.
Are they talking about the propagandists or debunkers?
Twenty years later and I STILL don't know what "it" is...
I don't have a startup sound on my Mac, and I manage to get along just fine.
Ten years ago I was being told that Microsoft was a juggernaut that would squash anything in it's way. I was given all the usual tripe. That Sun would be out of business, that Linus Torvalds would be in jail for treason, that Gates would be knocking on my door to collect my firstborn. None of it happened.
There is no monopoly. There is only a large marketshare. For the past ten years, during the very period of time everyone was telling me I had no choice, I have been using non-Microsoft systems. Currently I am using FreeBSD on my desktop and Mac OSX on my laptop. The only Windows I have is on my work-supplied laptop, and that's on a *secondary* partition. I can tell Bill Gates to "bite me" with no fear of repercussion.
Sun is still going strong (and still stuck in their perpetual layoff/hire cycle). Solaris is still the workstation of choice, whose chief competition comes from Santa Clara instead of Redmond.
Apple, the perpetually dying platform, is doing gangbusters. Sure, Microsoft gave them some money. But the very first thing they did with it was to come out with Safari and dump Internet Explorer. The OSX desktop is just starting to explode on the scene. I work with a lot of software companies, and most of them are moving into the Mac market for the very first time.
During the very height of the Microsoft monopoly, Linux went from an obscure kernel project to a major player in the server and embedded markets with lots of inroads to the desktop. And it's not just because Open Source is the equivalent of "price dumping", because the service side of things isn't inexpensive.
OpenOffice and Firefox have shown that high quality productivity tools don't need to come from Redmond.
So where's the monopoly? What is stopping me, or anyone else, from not using Microsoft products? It may be still be hard to find pre-bundled Linux systems, but pre-bundled Mac OSX systems are just one aisle over. That's just on the desktop side. On the server side only the true-blue Microsoft fan still uses Windows on the server.
In short, there is no monopoly.
Until Qt is released under a non-viral open-source license...
Good news, it is. Under X11, Qt is released under a dual license, one half of which is the non-viral QPL. If one of your target platforms is X11, then the QPL applies to all of them. In addition, Trolltech has publically said that any valid Free or Open Source license is suitable for applications using Qt.
More than that, it's the major crossplatform C++ framework.