In Australia, you aren't allowed to limit the sale of something because a person doesn't also buy something from a different provider.
The ACCC will rip shit into Apple over this if it is true.
They'll probably also lay into the retailers that are performing the actual transactions. Any clause like that in an Apple agreement is illegal and therefore void, so the retailers shouldn't be enforcing it.
Firstly, I didn't do that much iPhone development, partially because I disliked it so much. I admit that I am not educated enough about the language to speak authoritatively. I'm just giving my impression. If Apple doesn't like it, there are several options. One of them is to improve the experience for developers like me. Another is to ignore me, because I'm just one developer.
1. You're right. Syntax is subjective, and I personally think that Objective C's syntax is horrible. It's just my opinion.
2. Part of the reason I don't like it admittedly comes down to the fact that I jumped into some iPhone programming without actually learning the language properly. With that in mind (my lack of understanding), I find the way modifiers are specified to be strange, such as the - for instance methods.
3. XCode is primitive. It only seems modern until you use VS.Net 2008 or later. Visual Studio blows it away. I'm happy to be shown to be an idiot in most of the other points, but until you have used Visual Studio, you can't really talk about what makes a modern IDE.
4. I understand, but I just don't like the amount of modifiers involved in declarations, and it feels like a step back. I learned about memory management back at university. I always give thought to what data structures I use for an given purpose, but I have grown beyond actually wanting to manage the memory of objects myself. I acknowledge that when there are experts writing software specifically to manage memory, they are probably going to do a better job than me. And I could be contributing value to the business by writing software that does stuff, rather than managing the memory of the software that does stuff. I've done assembler, but I'd like to work at a higher level of abstraction now that I understand how the fundamentals work.
5. I can't remember is that much detail, but I remember having to write the signature, then the autoproperty, and I think there was something else that needed to be written to get them to work.
6. It felt more like a few applications loosely tied together. They are all separate apps that are called from each other, but that is only integrated for low values of integrated. Once again, try VS.NET 2008/2010 and get back to me.
I wasn't trying to troll. I just gave my opinion on not liking the language and tools. I feel dirty when I say that MS has done something well, but I have to give credit where credit is due.
What will hinder development of the platform is the god-awful language Objective C and the associated framework.
It's horrible. I'd like my framework methods to b less than 30 characters long, please. Sorry to promote MS here, but I happen to like method names like OnInit and OnLoad.
And somebody please give them decent Intellisense. ReSharper, I'm looking at you! Get on it, please.
Also, MVC is a pattern. It's not the be-all and end-all. What if I want MVP? Or something entirely different? It's so locked down, that it is infuriating to work with.
PureCause.com is a site set up for exactly this reason.
I heard about them on the This Week in Startups podcast with Jason Calacanis.
They're U.K. based and still in beta, but maybe you could be some of their first volunteer.
I used to have some Simpsons trading cards that were like that. There was what looked like static on a TV screen, which, when another plastic panel was put in front of it, would show a de-scrambled image.
I can't see how it is secure though, because the plastic descramblers are all the same. Someone could still take a photo and use a similar plastic window elsewhere.
Or the white person feels proud because they are taking part in voting for someone who, other than being a reasonable candidate, is a symbol of their society getting over a horrible past.
I can understand a white person feeling pride that their country is passed the worst of their racist heritage.
Is a black person racist for feeling the same way about voting for Obama? I don't think so.
Also, those same white people who felt proud to vote for Obama, would probably laugh at the thought of voting for lots of other black people. This would be because they are evaluating the person, rather than the race.
You say that the idea of "hate speech" laws are a tool to take away our freedoms. What do you think of laws that use the word "terrorism" to do the same?
I'd say that both sets of laws are generally bad. I would think that a law against directly and effectively inciting violence would be better. If a person is just ranting, rather than actually trying to organise people to go hurt others, then as despicable as their speech may be, I'd prefer them to be able to say it.
My thoughts on the matter boil down to this: People have the right to be jerks, but we should be creating a world where people don't want to be jerks.
These neo-Nazis are exercising their rights, and society has failed because they have chosen to exercise them in this way.
These guys don't seem to have actually hurt anybody, so I'd prefer to see them get counselling to deal with the root cause of why they feel the way they do. A reformed neo-Nazi would be a better instrument against Nazism that someone who never thought about it one way or the other.
For you U.S. citizens out there, you should be opposed to these guys being jailed, because if they were jailed for the same act in the U.S., it would be unconstitutional, and by applauding it, you would be effectively saying that you are opposed to the first amendment. And if you believe that the constitution is so good for you, then you should be striving for others to have the freedoms that you have.
The reason why Republicans get the blame is because the current Republicans are the people who would have previously been the slave-driving Democrats from decades ago.
The parties are just names. Their ideologies change.
If you're Australian, getting a working holiday visa isn't too hard. You have to apply from Australia and it will take a month or two, and you have to be under 35 or so. It allows you to go to the U.K. for 2 years, and depending on the constant changes to policies, you can either work for the whole time, or only for 1 year of the time.
A working holiday visa doesn't contribute to the time requirements for getting a U.K. passport. Getting a visa to work for longer, that can lead to citizenship (eventually), can and does take 4 months or more. There is a crap load of paperwork, you have to earn at least GBP23k per year (or local equivalent (and earning a lot more helps heaps)), have a university degree and other requirements in order to meet their minimum points to get the visa.
Emigrating from Australia to the U.K. is, in short, a bitch.
I've got a Monroe calculating machine, which if it had the right cable (and a serious check-up) would be electrically powered, but still works with the hand crank.
As far as I can figure, it is from about 1941.
You may be ambassador to England or France. You may like to gamble, you might like to dance.
You might be the heavy weight champion of the world. You might be a socialite with a long string of pearls, but you're gonna have to serve somebody. Yes indeed, you're gonna have to serve somebody. Well it may be the devil, or it may be the lord, but you're gonna have to serve somebody.
-- Bob Dylan
It sounds like it is purely asexual reproduction with a single element per generation. There is no crossover operator and no fitness other than whether the product is closer to the known goal.
If a fix for a problem isn't extremely expensive and convoluted with contracts for politicians friends, there will likely be no mandate for it, so short of lawsuits that start quoting these findings, probably nothing will happen, because there will be no coordination, in which case it will cost considerably more than $3M nationally, and regions will not be able to justify it. I say this extremely long statement with a bit of experience. I created an application for exactly this purpose to be used by a major hospital in the UK. My point is that it was just for the one hospital. There was no standardisation across the industry. The company I worked for at the time made websites and intranets for lots of hospitals, all basically the same thing, and each one costed and sold entirely separately. The hospital system could have paid 5 times the cost of one site and gotten hundreds, but that just wasn't how they did things.
Born early 80s.
I agree. Buying second hand books still has an effect on the market. The better the second hand price is, the more can be charged for new books.
If you want it in a format that isn't legally available, at least buy it in a format that is legally available as well. This is my conclusion to the situation that has been presented of someone who wants to act ethically.
Britannica is so crap compared to Wikipedia.
The article on Linux seems to have been written in 1999, and the description of Linux as an operating system would not make Stallman happy.
Yeah, but ethnicist or ethnicicist or ethnicisicist is just too damned hard to say. You'll just provoke a whole lot of stutterisists into bashing stutterererers.
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In Australia, you aren't allowed to limit the sale of something because a person doesn't also buy something from a different provider.
The ACCC will rip shit into Apple over this if it is true.
They'll probably also lay into the retailers that are performing the actual transactions. Any clause like that in an Apple agreement is illegal and therefore void, so the retailers shouldn't be enforcing it.
Firstly, I didn't do that much iPhone development, partially because I disliked it so much. I admit that I am not educated enough about the language to speak authoritatively. I'm just giving my impression. If Apple doesn't like it, there are several options. One of them is to improve the experience for developers like me. Another is to ignore me, because I'm just one developer.
1. You're right. Syntax is subjective, and I personally think that Objective C's syntax is horrible. It's just my opinion.
2. Part of the reason I don't like it admittedly comes down to the fact that I jumped into some iPhone programming without actually learning the language properly. With that in mind (my lack of understanding), I find the way modifiers are specified to be strange, such as the - for instance methods.
3. XCode is primitive. It only seems modern until you use VS.Net 2008 or later. Visual Studio blows it away. I'm happy to be shown to be an idiot in most of the other points, but until you have used Visual Studio, you can't really talk about what makes a modern IDE.
4. I understand, but I just don't like the amount of modifiers involved in declarations, and it feels like a step back. I learned about memory management back at university. I always give thought to what data structures I use for an given purpose, but I have grown beyond actually wanting to manage the memory of objects myself. I acknowledge that when there are experts writing software specifically to manage memory, they are probably going to do a better job than me. And I could be contributing value to the business by writing software that does stuff, rather than managing the memory of the software that does stuff. I've done assembler, but I'd like to work at a higher level of abstraction now that I understand how the fundamentals work.
5. I can't remember is that much detail, but I remember having to write the signature, then the autoproperty, and I think there was something else that needed to be written to get them to work.
6. It felt more like a few applications loosely tied together. They are all separate apps that are called from each other, but that is only integrated for low values of integrated. Once again, try VS.NET 2008/2010 and get back to me.
I wasn't trying to troll. I just gave my opinion on not liking the language and tools. I feel dirty when I say that MS has done something well, but I have to give credit where credit is due.
What will hinder development of the platform is the god-awful language Objective C and the associated framework.
It's horrible. I'd like my framework methods to b less than 30 characters long, please. Sorry to promote MS here, but I happen to like method names like OnInit and OnLoad.
And somebody please give them decent Intellisense. ReSharper, I'm looking at you! Get on it, please.
Also, MVC is a pattern. It's not the be-all and end-all. What if I want MVP? Or something entirely different? It's so locked down, that it is infuriating to work with.
PureCause.com is a site set up for exactly this reason.
I heard about them on the This Week in Startups podcast with Jason Calacanis.
They're U.K. based and still in beta, but maybe you could be some of their first volunteer.
Or join Pirate Party Australia.
I used to have some Simpsons trading cards that were like that. There was what looked like static on a TV screen, which, when another plastic panel was put in front of it, would show a de-scrambled image. I can't see how it is secure though, because the plastic descramblers are all the same. Someone could still take a photo and use a similar plastic window elsewhere.
This is a U.K. case. RTFA and don't assume that everyone lives around the corner from you.
Or the white person feels proud because they are taking part in voting for someone who, other than being a reasonable candidate, is a symbol of their society getting over a horrible past.
I can understand a white person feeling pride that their country is passed the worst of their racist heritage.
Is a black person racist for feeling the same way about voting for Obama? I don't think so.
Also, those same white people who felt proud to vote for Obama, would probably laugh at the thought of voting for lots of other black people. This would be because they are evaluating the person, rather than the race.
All your examples were actual, physical violence.
That is not what is being discussed.
I'd say that both sets of laws are generally bad. I would think that a law against directly and effectively inciting violence would be better. If a person is just ranting, rather than actually trying to organise people to go hurt others, then as despicable as their speech may be, I'd prefer them to be able to say it.
My thoughts on the matter boil down to this: People have the right to be jerks, but we should be creating a world where people don't want to be jerks.
These neo-Nazis are exercising their rights, and society has failed because they have chosen to exercise them in this way.
These guys don't seem to have actually hurt anybody, so I'd prefer to see them get counselling to deal with the root cause of why they feel the way they do. A reformed neo-Nazi would be a better instrument against Nazism that someone who never thought about it one way or the other.
For you U.S. citizens out there, you should be opposed to these guys being jailed, because if they were jailed for the same act in the U.S., it would be unconstitutional, and by applauding it, you would be effectively saying that you are opposed to the first amendment. And if you believe that the constitution is so good for you, then you should be striving for others to have the freedoms that you have.
The reason why Republicans get the blame is because the current Republicans are the people who would have previously been the slave-driving Democrats from decades ago.
The parties are just names. Their ideologies change.
If you're Australian, getting a working holiday visa isn't too hard. You have to apply from Australia and it will take a month or two, and you have to be under 35 or so. It allows you to go to the U.K. for 2 years, and depending on the constant changes to policies, you can either work for the whole time, or only for 1 year of the time.
A working holiday visa doesn't contribute to the time requirements for getting a U.K. passport. Getting a visa to work for longer, that can lead to citizenship (eventually), can and does take 4 months or more. There is a crap load of paperwork, you have to earn at least GBP23k per year (or local equivalent (and earning a lot more helps heaps)), have a university degree and other requirements in order to meet their minimum points to get the visa.
Emigrating from Australia to the U.K. is, in short, a bitch.
I've got a Monroe calculating machine, which if it had the right cable (and a serious check-up) would be electrically powered, but still works with the hand crank.
As far as I can figure, it is from about 1941.
What? Like Kamchatka and Pevek?
You may be ambassador to England or France. You may like to gamble, you might like to dance. You might be the heavy weight champion of the world. You might be a socialite with a long string of pearls, but you're gonna have to serve somebody. Yes indeed, you're gonna have to serve somebody. Well it may be the devil, or it may be the lord, but you're gonna have to serve somebody.
-- Bob Dylan
No he didn't. You just don't know who he is talking about.
It sounds like it is purely asexual reproduction with a single element per generation. There is no crossover operator and no fitness other than whether the product is closer to the known goal.
Sure thing, Malthus.
I agree that the earth cannot possibly support more than a few million people, a hundred million absolute tops.
If a fix for a problem isn't extremely expensive and convoluted with contracts for politicians friends, there will likely be no mandate for it, so short of lawsuits that start quoting these findings, probably nothing will happen, because there will be no coordination, in which case it will cost considerably more than $3M nationally, and regions will not be able to justify it.
I say this extremely long statement with a bit of experience.
I created an application for exactly this purpose to be used by a major hospital in the UK. My point is that it was just for the one hospital. There was no standardisation across the industry. The company I worked for at the time made websites and intranets for lots of hospitals, all basically the same thing, and each one costed and sold entirely separately. The hospital system could have paid 5 times the cost of one site and gotten hundreds, but that just wasn't how they did things.
Born early 80s. I agree. Buying second hand books still has an effect on the market. The better the second hand price is, the more can be charged for new books. If you want it in a format that isn't legally available, at least buy it in a format that is legally available as well. This is my conclusion to the situation that has been presented of someone who wants to act ethically.
Don't judge all youth because you went to a crap university.
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Britannica is so crap compared to Wikipedia. The article on Linux seems to have been written in 1999, and the description of Linux as an operating system would not make Stallman happy.
Yeah, but ethnicist or ethnicicist or ethnicisicist is just too damned hard to say. You'll just provoke a whole lot of stutterisists into bashing stutterererers.
There, fixed that for you.