I fail to see how an industry with a business model becoming out of date equates to the failure of the entire economic model.
The invisible hand notion might be crap, and a totally free market may not achive the objectives we want it to, but that doesn't mean the entire concept is wrong. For sure it needs some tweaking, but to call it a failure is to ignore all the progress made over the past 200+ years.
I think a better solution would be for everyone to realize that something that can be copied an infinite number of times with almost no cost also has no value, because said 'item' is not scarce anymore. Then figure out another way to encourage artists to create thier content.
I'm sorry, but the C# language takes Java and adds a bunch of shit to make it unnecessarily complicated.
Like what? I've found C# to be closer to C++ than Java is. To me, Java is the one with some unnecessary complexity.
Why should I have to deal with both structs and classes (and the annoyances thereof, like not being able to pass a null to a struct parameter)?
I've been doing C# development for about 3 years now, and not once have I (or my co-workers) had a need to use a struct.
What efficiency does having a seperate structure type add if a JIT compiler can, under the hood, generate class code as it would for a structure when it would be more efficient to do so?
Because it won't when it would not be more efficient. Think of it as a compiler hint. Or would you rather it always generate the struct under the hood even if that would result in poorer performance? Actually, why do you care at all what it does when it compiles it, as long as it does what you want it to?
Not saying it wasn't possible, but supporting a bill to keep them funded AND over there doesn't seem to be supporting them by wanting to bring them home.
No, its circular, and you just repeated the problem. You assume God is the answer to everything, and then you say 'well this is unexplained, so god must be the answer.' Thus you say, god exists.
Whats wrong with saying we just don't know the answer yet, why make up something else we don't have any proof of?
Which is why I perfer logic to some brain dead ideas pushed by the richest organization in the world. Worst of all, what they preach many times doesn't even match whats in the book that supposedly governs them!
Heh, b/c some other MS shill just happened to have mod points that makes me a troll.
Your problem is command line programs, its that you have a piss poor memory (or are lazy) and are ill-suited to your profession. I suggest you find another line of work that requires less thinking if you can't handle remembering how to do your job (which is really what you're saying, if it takes you DAYS to remember how to use a language your supposedly proficient in).
You should likely be fired, and they should replace you with someone competent. It certainly doesn't take me days to relearn everything.
If you can't see that, you're way more than just a fool.
Replace "copyright infringment" with "outsourcing" and "sale" with "job," it doesn't sound like junk science and fabricated statistics anymore. The ability to measure potential is a difficult, even if 1% of the people who download a song or movie would have purchased it, it is still a large amount of money lost.
Bull. People currently employeed are laid off to be replaced by workers oversees. A lost 'sale' might never have been a sale, you can't honestly know for sure. There's a huge difference.
Replace "copyright infringment" with "outsourcing" and "sale" with "job," it doesn't sound like junk science and fabricated statistics anymore. The ability to measure potential is a difficult, even if 1% of the people who download a song or movie would have purchased it, it is still a large amount of money lost.
You mean as long as the system is currently rigged to elect a caniditate that really is the same as his oponent? There really are much fewer differences between the Ds and Rs than people would like to believe.
Call it a fallacy if you will, but I'm not going to cry for a theif that is later robbed. Sorry, I don't believe you can really argue that its wrong to do so.
To me rebooting is wasting time. Ideally I'd install something and start using it right away. Instead I have to sit there and wait for the machine to come back up.
Kinda like how traffic lights, while they may be necessary, still slow down your trip. Its time wasted I'll never see again.
I'm not going to start a flame war by arguing that this is right or wrong. It just is. I need to be able to create a single binary and installer that I can release to the linux world and expect it to work across (at least) most distros and recent versions. Thats commercial reality.
This is what NVIDIA has done; I haven't heard it not working with the current distros.
The same installer has been working on 2.4 and 2.6.. I dont think the driver API is as unstable as you think.. although I"m sure it does change more frequently than Windows. That would be a valid complaint.
A few simple command line programs you can't figure out, and yet you claim to have been programming for 20 years? I"d think that someone programming since before Windows 3.11 would have been able to figure out command line apps.. either you're lying or incredibly stupid.
you have to restart X to use it, which is equivalent to a reboot in Windows).
I'm sorry, they're no where near close. Logging out of X and logging back in is usually all you need to do...and thats MUCH quicker the powering down the machine and starting it again.
I'm not sure what MS promised in the past regarding reboots, but you seem to be more than willing to apologize for them.
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I fail to see how an industry with a business model becoming out of date equates to the failure of the entire economic model.
The invisible hand notion might be crap, and a totally free market may not achive the objectives we want it to, but that doesn't mean the entire concept is wrong. For sure it needs some tweaking, but to call it a failure is to ignore all the progress made over the past 200+ years.
Sorry, didn't think I had to, since there WAS are before copyrights..
My wife used to work in banking. Merchants never send those slips you sign back to the banks, they simply keep them.
Your bank knows you bought something because of the electronic transmission when the card was swiped.
I think a better solution would be for everyone to realize that something that can be copied an infinite number of times with almost no cost also has no value, because said 'item' is not scarce anymore. Then figure out another way to encourage artists to create thier content.
But parking your car over there costs as much as renting an apartment here!
While I agree with your post, I have to ask, why would you even WANT a car in NYC?
Or when you get their page saying it won't work, just scrool to the bottom and click Home, and it will load just fine..
I've got the same specs, and it did in fact crash on me. The feedback agent sent the report.
Sorry if I missed something here, but aren't ALL businesses market driven?
.net framework is really nice to build applications with, an VS.net is a really good IDE.
The fact is that the
I'm sorry, but the C# language takes Java and adds a bunch of shit to make it unnecessarily complicated.
Like what? I've found C# to be closer to C++ than Java is. To me, Java is the one with some unnecessary complexity.
Why should I have to deal with both structs and classes (and the annoyances thereof, like not being able to pass a null to a struct parameter)?
I've been doing C# development for about 3 years now, and not once have I (or my co-workers) had a need to use a struct.
What efficiency does having a seperate structure type add if a JIT compiler can, under the hood, generate class code as it would for a structure when it would be more efficient to do so?
Because it won't when it would not be more efficient. Think of it as a compiler hint. Or would you rather it always generate the struct under the hood even if that would result in poorer performance? Actually, why do you care at all what it does when it compiles it, as long as it does what you want it to?
I wouldn't say most; there are also alot of states that requires BOTH parties to concent, not just one of the parties.
Not saying it wasn't possible, but supporting a bill to keep them funded AND over there doesn't seem to be supporting them by wanting to bring them home.
Heh...oh, sorry :-)
It's great that the spending part of this bill passed - I'm all for keeping our troops as safe as possible.
So you are for bringing them home then?
I think the problem is not drinking age, its having to hand over an ID to do something for which you should not have to hand over an ID.
No, its circular, and you just repeated the problem. You assume God is the answer to everything, and then you say 'well this is unexplained, so god must be the answer.' Thus you say, god exists.
Whats wrong with saying we just don't know the answer yet, why make up something else we don't have any proof of?
Which is why I perfer logic to some brain dead ideas pushed by the richest organization in the world. Worst of all, what they preach many times doesn't even match whats in the book that supposedly governs them!
You are indeed a Troll, but I'll feed anyway.
Heh, b/c some other MS shill just happened to have mod points that makes me a troll.
Your problem is command line programs, its that you have a piss poor memory (or are lazy) and are ill-suited to your profession. I suggest you find another line of work that requires less thinking if you can't handle remembering how to do your job (which is really what you're saying, if it takes you DAYS to remember how to use a language your supposedly proficient in).
You should likely be fired, and they should replace you with someone competent. It certainly doesn't take me days to relearn everything.
If you can't see that, you're way more than just a fool.
That's some nice circular logic you have there.
Replace "copyright infringment" with "outsourcing" and "sale" with "job," it doesn't sound like junk science and fabricated statistics anymore. The ability to measure potential is a difficult, even if 1% of the people who download a song or movie would have purchased it, it is still a large amount of money lost.
Bull. People currently employeed are laid off to be replaced by workers oversees. A lost 'sale' might never have been a sale, you can't honestly know for sure. There's a huge difference.
Replace "copyright infringment" with "outsourcing" and "sale" with "job," it doesn't sound like junk science and fabricated statistics anymore. The ability to measure potential is a difficult, even if 1% of the people who download a song or movie would have purchased it, it is still a large amount of money lost.
You mean as long as the system is currently rigged to elect a caniditate that really is the same as his oponent? There really are much fewer differences between the Ds and Rs than people would like to believe.
Call it a fallacy if you will, but I'm not going to cry for a theif that is later robbed. Sorry, I don't believe you can really argue that its wrong to do so.
To me rebooting is wasting time. Ideally I'd install something and start using it right away. Instead I have to sit there and wait for the machine to come back up.
Kinda like how traffic lights, while they may be necessary, still slow down your trip. Its time wasted I'll never see again.
McAfee certainly don't.
McAfee requires a reboot at least once a week. At least with version 6 or 7 it does.
I'm not going to start a flame war by arguing that this is right or wrong. It just is. I need to be able to create a single binary and installer that I can release to the linux world and expect it to work across (at least) most distros and recent versions. Thats commercial reality.
This is what NVIDIA has done; I haven't heard it not working with the current distros.
The same installer has been working on 2.4 and 2.6.. I dont think the driver API is as unstable as you think.. although I"m sure it does change more frequently than Windows. That would be a valid complaint.
A few simple command line programs you can't figure out, and yet you claim to have been programming for 20 years? I"d think that someone programming since before Windows 3.11 would have been able to figure out command line apps.. either you're lying or incredibly stupid.
you have to restart X to use it, which is equivalent to a reboot in Windows).
I'm sorry, they're no where near close. Logging out of X and logging back in is usually all you need to do...and thats MUCH quicker the powering down the machine and starting it again.
I'm not sure what MS promised in the past regarding reboots, but you seem to be more than willing to apologize for them.