My problem is that king of the hill is so unfunny and painful to watch. So i watch Futurama (which i think is pretty good), then i have to sit through that bore of a show KotH to get to the simpsons. If it was right before (or after) the simpsons, i'd defaintly watch it more. But i usually would rather miss it and KotH and get into something good.
Sounds liek they should have said that the pictures were for personal use. Which i think is pretty easy to prove since they were actually takign pics of each other. You ARE allowed to copy things for personal use (that is, not distribute it publicly).
Are you talking about late fees? I did work in a video store for 6 months, and i don't recall most of the money being made on late fees (most people returned them ontime). But then that was only a small store in a small town, so i don't know if thats normally the case.
If you want to pay everytime you see the movie, thats EXACTLY what rental stores are for. If you don't like the movie enough to watch it more then a few times, you don't buy it.
So what exactly does DivX or similar tech offer thats not already out there??
I doubt this will compete with rental/PPV. PPV where i live (i have comcast) is 3.95/movie. Its almost exactly the same to rent from my local video store. Are these movies going to cost less then that? Would i care if they did? I don't think video stores would carry them, since they'dhave to get new shipments of the movies every week, and i certainly don't want to throw away more then i already do..
I didn't mean to imply that the availiblity of libraries made the languages cleaner. I meant that as a counter to your point that the languages might not be worse off, but they might not be any better either.
It could be a failing of my colleges program. On the other hand, i've found my colleges CS profs (http://www.rit.edu/) to be very knowledgable and well thought out. Most were doing CS when i was in elementry school (or earlier). I didn't mean to imply that functional programming had no use, just that its use is very limited. One thing i did like about the profs was they tried to instill in us to use the best tool for the job when choosing languages and such. For the most part, OO seems to be the right tool. As far as MS deciding that you can't use Multi-inheritance...well you could say the same thing about Java not letting you use pointers. Choices had to be made, and they made the ones they felt were best. In C# code you lose pointers, but gain security and a common source of GPFs. (Yes, there's an article about unmanaged code in.net and security;.net security can't hanlde unmanaged code, b/c its unmanaged. I imagine this means using COM thru interop decreases security as well).
I imagine if your fav language is made.net compliant then it won't allow multiple inheritance then. If you don't mean.net compliant, the only way to use your object would be via the COM interop.
Not get any better? You don't think the sudden availibility of a huge (standard) library would improve the language? Instead of trying to figure out which library tied to your language supports some feature, you know there is one library to look in no matter what language you use. Don't you think something like that could make Eiffel more popular? A lot of people were I work are looking forward to.net, so that we can go back to C (well, C#). We'll have a choice of our favorite language now, instead of being forced into VB. I think that in itself is worth it.
As far as functional programming goes. Since at my college they didn't bother with it until the last years, i get the impression that it's pretty much dead. To me, objects seem a cleaner way to think about things, and except for a few cases, you're better off doing OOP. Multiple inheritance? How often do you actually use that properly (and not just b/c you can)? In fact, there are quite a few people that believe if you need multiple inheritance, you're doing something wrong.
You're absolutely certain of that? Maybe it wouldn't take much to change those languages to work with the CLS. At any rate, i guess we wouldn't know until someone tried it. I'm not going to claim to have read the CLS, but unless you have and took a serious look at what it would take to make these languages CLS compliant, i wouldn't go around saying you're absolutely certain.
Besides, I don't know many people that use any of those 3 languages (and having used Eiffel in college, i don't know why anyone would want to).
Which was exactly why MS 'broke' VB6. Some parts of the language needed overhaul to be CLS compliant. I imagine other languages will need the same kind of overhaul. And that might not be such a bad thing. VB is a much cleaner and nicer language thanks to the overhaul (although there are still things i don't like, and i would still stick with C).
Actually, MONO just may allow windows programs to run natively on.net. Its possible to distribute your application (assembly) as IL code, and have it compiled at run time or install time. So as long as the MONO IL provides the same functionality as the windows version, it might be possible. Wow, sounds alot like java.
Actually no, if you're following the HTML standards, it should work in all browsers without extra work. Assuming of course the browsers follow the standards, which of course none of them do 100%.
Well what i got from the article was that they wouldn't spam you unless you asked for it. I think thats a good thing, and a step in the right direction. Also, the article has a link to a site where you can get your email removed from all DMA members spam lists (like they do for your phone # and address now). The only thing i don't like about that is that it expires, and requires effort on my part to get my name back on to their exclude list. Ideally, i wouldn't have any effort to keep my name on such a list.
My last name is scottish, so obviously i can't be an american. Um, wake up dude. You might be right, b/c you can't assume by someones last name where they live.
Actually people didn't want to, and thus it was made illegal for cable companies to charge cable per tv. What you're paying to get digital cable on each tv is for the rental of a digital converter. Thats why for one tv is more, and each additional tv is less.
Well if you were older then 10, you would know that he was refering to the time before the Berlin wall fell, when the Soviet Union controled part of germany.
Obviously you have no concept of rights or the thought that lead to the creation of the constitution. Read on on the philosophical works of Locke and Keyes, as this is what our forefathers did. The idea behind rights is that EVERYONE has them...some were just put on paper to emphisis thier importance.
Well thats great news. So if i slap a license agreement in with a TV i sell, and someone buys it, they automattically agree to the contract? Cool, they don't even have to see it!
You pay for a license and agree to the terms.
I didn't see any such nonsense about paying for a license when i bought an expansion pack to a game that i got for xmas. In fact i don't remeber seeing any such license on any of the software when i bought it. Yet i'm somehow bound to something i was NOT able to examine. Why not just start mailing letters that contain 'by openning this letter you agree to pay me $500.'
Your car lease analogy fails on two counts in my opinion.
First, when i lease a car, i go to a dealer, negotiate some terms which we both agree on, then we BOTH sign a lease. I didn't sign jack shit when i bought or used software. That 'by clicking here' or 'by using the software' doesn't cut it for me to constitute an agreement. If it does, i'm gonna post a sign outside my house to get your attention, and in the small print i will write 'by reading this sign you agree to pay me.'
Second, cars aren't governed by copyright law. You can't copyright a car. Software however is copyrighted. Music, movies, and books do not come with license agreements. I think if anyone tried that, they would quickly be laughed at and raise public outrage. Copyright forbids public performances, making a profit from selling copies, and puts restrictions on derivitive (sp?) works. I buy a book, i am allowed to do anything i want with it as long as i don't violate the restrictions copyright puts on it. Same with music, same with movies. If you're going to compare software with other classes of objects in the market, pick something closer. Software is not at all like a car, its content, which means its very close to books music and movies, and therefore should be governed under the same laws.
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My problem is that king of the hill is so unfunny and painful to watch. So i watch Futurama (which i think is pretty good), then i have to sit through that bore of a show KotH to get to the simpsons. If it was right before (or after) the simpsons, i'd defaintly watch it more. But i usually would rather miss it and KotH and get into something good.
Odd, my transfer rates have remained unaffected since the transition.
Their problem is that the primary source of revenue is being threatened.
How does recording based on actor alone threaten that revenue though? (ignoring the commercial removal)
Sounds liek they should have said that the pictures were for personal use. Which i think is pretty easy to prove since they were actually takign pics of each other. You ARE allowed to copy things for personal use (that is, not distribute it publicly).
Are you talking about late fees? I did work in a video store for 6 months, and i don't recall most of the money being made on late fees (most people returned them ontime). But then that was only a small store in a small town, so i don't know if thats normally the case.
Right, i forgot how lazy some people are...
People who typically fail to vote because they don't feel like going out and waiting in line can do it in minutes from the comfort of their own home.
Could probably change that to 'from the confort of thier own cube' since i'm betting alot of people work on election day...
If you want to pay everytime you see the movie, thats EXACTLY what rental stores are for. If you don't like the movie enough to watch it more then a few times, you don't buy it.
So what exactly does DivX or similar tech offer thats not already out there??
I doubt this will compete with rental/PPV. PPV where i live (i have comcast) is 3.95/movie. Its almost exactly the same to rent from my local video store. Are these movies going to cost less then that? Would i care if they did? I don't think video stores would carry them, since they'dhave to get new shipments of the movies every week, and i certainly don't want to throw away more then i already do..
I don't recall seeing anything in the article that said it didn't apply to snail mail.
I didn't mean to imply that the availiblity of libraries made the languages cleaner. I meant that as a counter to your point that the languages might not be worse off, but they might not be any better either.
.net and security; .net security can't hanlde unmanaged code, b/c its unmanaged. I imagine this means using COM thru interop decreases security as well).
.net compliant then it won't allow multiple inheritance then. If you don't mean .net compliant, the only way to use your object would be via the COM interop.
It could be a failing of my colleges program. On the other hand, i've found my colleges CS profs (http://www.rit.edu/) to be very knowledgable and well thought out. Most were doing CS when i was in elementry school (or earlier). I didn't mean to imply that functional programming had no use, just that its use is very limited. One thing i did like about the profs was they tried to instill in us to use the best tool for the job when choosing languages and such. For the most part, OO seems to be the right tool. As far as MS deciding that you can't use Multi-inheritance...well you could say the same thing about Java not letting you use pointers. Choices had to be made, and they made the ones they felt were best. In C# code you lose pointers, but gain security and a common source of GPFs. (Yes, there's an article about unmanaged code in
I imagine if your fav language is made
Not get any better? You don't think the sudden availibility of a huge (standard) library would improve the language? Instead of trying to figure out which library tied to your language supports some feature, you know there is one library to look in no matter what language you use. Don't you think something like that could make Eiffel more popular? A lot of people were I work are looking forward to .net, so that we can go back to C (well, C#). We'll have a choice of our favorite language now, instead of being forced into VB. I think that in itself is worth it.
As far as functional programming goes. Since at my college they didn't bother with it until the last years, i get the impression that it's pretty much dead. To me, objects seem a cleaner way to think about things, and except for a few cases, you're better off doing OOP. Multiple inheritance? How often do you actually use that properly (and not just b/c you can)? In fact, there are quite a few people that believe if you need multiple inheritance, you're doing something wrong.
You're absolutely certain of that? Maybe it wouldn't take much to change those languages to work with the CLS. At any rate, i guess we wouldn't know until someone tried it. I'm not going to claim to have read the CLS, but unless you have and took a serious look at what it would take to make these languages CLS compliant, i wouldn't go around saying you're absolutely certain.
Besides, I don't know many people that use any of those 3 languages (and having used Eiffel in college, i don't know why anyone would want to).
Which was exactly why MS 'broke' VB6. Some parts of the language needed overhaul to be CLS compliant. I imagine other languages will need the same kind of overhaul. And that might not be such a bad thing. VB is a much cleaner and nicer language thanks to the overhaul (although there are still things i don't like, and i would still stick with C).
Actually, MONO just may allow windows programs to run natively on .net. Its possible to distribute your application (assembly) as IL code, and have it compiled at run time or install time. So as long as the MONO IL provides the same functionality as the windows version, it might be possible. Wow, sounds alot like java.
I don'tk now wher eyou live, but PPV movies for me cost 3.99...only a few cents more then renting them.
Actually no, the USPS is self sufficient.
I would think non-geeks taht are smart enough to get trillian in the first place are smart enoug to check for updates...
Actually no, if you're following the HTML standards, it should work in all browsers without extra work. Assuming of course the browsers follow the standards, which of course none of them do 100%.
Well what i got from the article was that they wouldn't spam you unless you asked for it. I think thats a good thing, and a step in the right direction. Also, the article has a link to a site where you can get your email removed from all DMA members spam lists (like they do for your phone # and address now). The only thing i don't like about that is that it expires, and requires effort on my part to get my name back on to their exclude list. Ideally, i wouldn't have any effort to keep my name on such a list.
My last name is scottish, so obviously i can't be an american. Um, wake up dude. You might be right, b/c you can't assume by someones last name where they live.
Actually people didn't want to, and thus it was made illegal for cable companies to charge cable per tv. What you're paying to get digital cable on each tv is for the rental of a digital converter. Thats why for one tv is more, and each additional tv is less.
Well if you were older then 10, you would know that he was refering to the time before the Berlin wall fell, when the Soviet Union controled part of germany.
Try reading Locke or Keyes. You basically have the right to do what you wish, so long as it does not interefer with others.
Obviously you have no concept of rights or the thought that lead to the creation of the constitution. Read on on the philosophical works of Locke and Keyes, as this is what our forefathers did. The idea behind rights is that EVERYONE has them...some were just put on paper to emphisis thier importance.
Well thats great news. So if i slap a license agreement in with a TV i sell, and someone buys it, they automattically agree to the contract? Cool, they don't even have to see it!
You pay for a license and agree to the terms.
I didn't see any such nonsense about paying for a license when i bought an expansion pack to a game that i got for xmas. In fact i don't remeber seeing any such license on any of the software when i bought it. Yet i'm somehow bound to something i was NOT able to examine. Why not just start mailing letters that contain 'by openning this letter you agree to pay me $500.'
Your car lease analogy fails on two counts in my opinion.
First, when i lease a car, i go to a dealer, negotiate some terms which we both agree on, then we BOTH sign a lease. I didn't sign jack shit when i bought or used software. That 'by clicking here' or 'by using the software' doesn't cut it for me to constitute an agreement. If it does, i'm gonna post a sign outside my house to get your attention, and in the small print i will write 'by reading this sign you agree to pay me.'
Second, cars aren't governed by copyright law. You can't copyright a car. Software however is copyrighted. Music, movies, and books do not come with license agreements. I think if anyone tried that, they would quickly be laughed at and raise public outrage. Copyright forbids public performances, making a profit from selling copies, and puts restrictions on derivitive (sp?) works. I buy a book, i am allowed to do anything i want with it as long as i don't violate the restrictions copyright puts on it. Same with music, same with movies. If you're going to compare software with other classes of objects in the market, pick something closer. Software is not at all like a car, its content, which means its very close to books music and movies, and therefore should be governed under the same laws.