Funny thing about Puzo... his first two novels received considerable critical acclaim, and barely made him enough to eat. He wrote 'The Godfather' as his third novel, and targeted it towards the exact audience that loved it, bought it, made it into a movie, and made him rich.
It was only 'admittedly inferior' in the classic literature sense.
It acheived the exact goal Puzo was after, which makes it a supreme success in my mind.
From what I understand he's the first to be prosecuted under a new law. It's not that they don't want to go after anyone else, it's just that they haven't yet.
What makes you think that the English teachers get paid as much as the math/science guys, especially at a college level?
My father was a high school math teacher. One day, a new assistant principal came by the math & science department lounge and told the chairman of the department (a physics teacher) that he didn't approve of the way he dressed (wearing jeans). The department chair replied "I was passing by the unemployment office the other day. I saw a whole line of assistant principals but not one tenured physics teacher." He wasn't bothered again.
The problem I have with your post is that I think this situation is a lot closer to being a 'Ham and Swiss' scenario, rather than the more generic 'Ham and Cheese' scenario that you've laid out. If you think about that some, you'll see why this could all work.
Still not the same. Difference is that in one case, I pay for something and get something back. In the other case, I pay for something, and don't get anything back, unless I pay for ANOTHER something on top of that.
Not the same thing. If I buy Windows or Office from Microsoft, I get a specific product that I paid for. What they then do with the money is entirely up to them, but I received the item that I paid for.
When we have publicly funded research, I paid for the research, but I do not receive the results. There's a difference.
Obviously exemptions are necessary when there is a need for secrecy, but that doesn't apply to most cases.
As I read this, it's a copyright case only. One side (SAE) claimed rights to code that the other side (DrewTech) had released via GPL. It could have been something proprietary, and SAE would still have lost the case from what I understand.
It's like saying "Axemurderer convicted of killing author of GPL-released code" is a big win for the GPL. It wasn't part of the case, near as I can tell.
From the review: It would seem logical to assume that a good college hitter (a good college power hitter, anyway), if magically transported back to 1920, could hit more home runs than Babe Ruth.
Almost any baseball analyst today would laugh at that notion.
Did you actually check with any? Every time I've heard this discussed, people point out that one of today's hitters playing against a 1920s team would hit an absurd number of homers.
Sometimes I choose not to take myself too seriously. More to the point, law isn't my realm of expertise and I wanted to subtly emphasize that.
Besides, one the sibling post to my original both made the point better and had the benefit of being written by someone who actually read the article:)
Thanks for the encouragement though.
Also, how come one informative + one funny == funny?
I think this is my first 3-mod. I always get 0, 2 or 5. The fives always surprise me.
This might be a case where that's possible. In order for that to happen (in the US), a judge needs to rule that a suit is frivolous, meaning that it's so obviously bogus that the Plaintiff should not have even considered filing it.
Not a lawyer, blah blah blah blah ham sandwich.
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Did you just say that adding Nazis to a project every 18 months will delay the delivery date?
If you are already familiar with them, sure. If you're still new to either one, Java and C# can still be cryptic.
ANY language is inherently readable if you "write clean understandable code with good variable names."
I agree with the rest of what you say though.
And as an aside, REALLY good coders can use language features you've never seen before and you'll quickly recognize what it does because it was used appropriately and cleanly.
Nothing in the world stinks more than a diaper full of diarrhea (sp?).
Having changed so many of their diapers, I can now recognize which of my daughters farted by scent alone. Or, by process of elimination, if it was my wife.
My 10 month old crawls around. A lot. She gets into spaces you couldn't imagine. Sometimes I think it would be nice to have an extra set of eyes on her, especially when I have to take care of my 4 year old at the same time.
This robot would be a bad thing if it's a replacement for parental supervision. It could still be useful as a supplement though.
I accepted a job once because the money was unbelievable. The work environment sucked, I never stopped looking for a new job, and I got fired after about 3 months. The woman (red flag #1) running the joint liked to just hire people and see if they fit her needs, and then fire them a few months later. I sensed this somewhat when I met with her for the interview, but I ignored my gut instinct (Red Flag #2). They were looking for someone who knew the Sybase API, and used csh, but they advertised "C/Unix" programmer, and didn't ask about csh or Sybase in the interview. She made an offer immediately (red flag #3) after the interview and I negotiated that offer upwards about 5k to my original asking amount.
I should have turned it down, and didn't. Listen to your instincts, and if something seems wrong that you just can't pinpoint, don't take the offer.
Okay, so #1 is kind of a joke, but I could tell she was a bitchy type and that should have stopped me. Don't work for assholes unless you're unemployed and need money.
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I've never heard of mc chris. Normally I wouldn't bother to post to an article like this; it just doesn't interest me. It's when Taco says "Many of you are no doubt familiar with the works of mc chris." as the opening of his summary that some people get ticked off by. I actually peeked at the comments wondering if I was alone in having no clue who he was.
Mind you I don't offer criticism of him, or assume that his work must be garbage because it's rap. But I thought it might help to explain why there's so many comments that match the one you described.
Men and women don't always take the same approach to problems. When you've just starting to brainstorm and figure out how to tackle something, you want as many different perspectives as possible.
I like to have people nothing like me in design phase, and then I wish I could clone myself for implementation.
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Funny thing about Puzo... his first two novels received considerable critical acclaim, and barely made him enough to eat. He wrote 'The Godfather' as his third novel, and targeted it towards the exact audience that loved it, bought it, made it into a movie, and made him rich.
It was only 'admittedly inferior' in the classic literature sense.
It acheived the exact goal Puzo was after, which makes it a supreme success in my mind.
From what I understand he's the first to be prosecuted under a new law. It's not that they don't want to go after anyone else, it's just that they haven't yet.
What makes you think that the English teachers get paid as much as the math/science guys, especially at a college level?
My father was a high school math teacher. One day, a new assistant principal came by the math & science department lounge and told the chairman of the department (a physics teacher) that he didn't approve of the way he dressed (wearing jeans). The department chair replied "I was passing by the unemployment office the other day. I saw a whole line of assistant principals but not one tenured physics teacher." He wasn't bothered again.
maybe a simple script like:
#!/bin/sh
sh $0
or in c
while ( 1 )
fork();
That was the Brits though.
Yeah, but it's been about 200 years since we last invaded Canada. If we were going to do it again, we'd have tried already.
Personally I would welcome adding the Canadian territories to the US. It be a nice adjustment to the voting blocs.
The problem I have with your post is that I think this situation is a lot closer to being a 'Ham and Swiss' scenario, rather than the more generic 'Ham and Cheese' scenario that you've laid out. If you think about that some, you'll see why this could all work.
Still not the same. Difference is that in one case, I pay for something and get something back. In the other case, I pay for something, and don't get anything back, unless I pay for ANOTHER something on top of that.
Not the same thing. If I buy Windows or Office from Microsoft, I get a specific product that I paid for. What they then do with the money is entirely up to them, but I received the item that I paid for.
When we have publicly funded research, I paid for the research, but I do not receive the results. There's a difference.
Obviously exemptions are necessary when there is a need for secrecy, but that doesn't apply to most cases.
As I read this, it's a copyright case only. One side (SAE) claimed rights to code that the other side (DrewTech) had released via GPL. It could have been something proprietary, and SAE would still have lost the case from what I understand.
It's like saying "Axemurderer convicted of killing author of GPL-released code" is a big win for the GPL. It wasn't part of the case, near as I can tell.
From the review:
It would seem logical to assume that a good college hitter (a good college power hitter, anyway), if magically transported back to 1920, could hit more home runs than Babe Ruth.
Almost any baseball analyst today would laugh at that notion.
Did you actually check with any? Every time I've heard this discussed, people point out that one of today's hitters playing against a 1920s team would hit an absurd number of homers.
What's big, green, and would kill you if it fell out of a tree?
Sometimes I choose not to take myself too seriously. More to the point, law isn't my realm of expertise and I wanted to subtly emphasize that.
:)
Besides, one the sibling post to my original both made the point better and had the benefit of being written by someone who actually read the article
Thanks for the encouragement though.
Also, how come one informative + one funny == funny?
I think this is my first 3-mod. I always get 0, 2 or 5. The fives always surprise me.
This might be a case where that's possible. In order for that to happen (in the US), a judge needs to rule that a suit is frivolous, meaning that it's so obviously bogus that the Plaintiff should not have even considered filing it.
Not a lawyer, blah blah blah blah ham sandwich.
Did you just say that adding Nazis to a project every 18 months will delay the delivery date?
I almost suggested adding
if ( 0 ) { printf("enough"); }
But then I realized I was on the wrong verse. Can't think of anything for "I set it up".
I thought of it more as one of Santa's Reindeer. On Prancer! On Dasher! On Foundanion!
I disagree when writing Java and C#.
If you are already familiar with them, sure. If you're still new to either one, Java and C# can still be cryptic.
ANY language is inherently readable if you "write clean understandable code with good variable names."
I agree with the rest of what you say though.
And as an aside, REALLY good coders can use language features you've never seen before and you'll quickly recognize what it does because it was used appropriately and cleanly.
I don't think he's also not a lawyer.
That doesn't sound much better.
Nothing in the world stinks more than a diaper full of diarrhea (sp?).
Having changed so many of their diapers, I can now recognize which of my daughters farted by scent alone. Or, by process of elimination, if it was my wife.
My 10 month old crawls around. A lot. She gets into spaces you couldn't imagine. Sometimes I think it would be nice to have an extra set of eyes on her, especially when I have to take care of my 4 year old at the same time.
This robot would be a bad thing if it's a replacement for parental supervision. It could still be useful as a supplement though.
I accepted a job once because the money was unbelievable. The work environment sucked, I never stopped looking for a new job, and I got fired after about 3 months. The woman (red flag #1) running the joint liked to just hire people and see if they fit her needs, and then fire them a few months later. I sensed this somewhat when I met with her for the interview, but I ignored my gut instinct (Red Flag #2). They were looking for someone who knew the Sybase API, and used csh, but they advertised "C/Unix" programmer, and didn't ask about csh or Sybase in the interview. She made an offer immediately (red flag #3) after the interview and I negotiated that offer upwards about 5k to my original asking amount.
I should have turned it down, and didn't. Listen to your instincts, and if something seems wrong that you just can't pinpoint, don't take the offer.
Okay, so #1 is kind of a joke, but I could tell she was a bitchy type and that should have stopped me. Don't work for assholes unless you're unemployed and need money.
I've never heard of mc chris. Normally I wouldn't bother to post to an article like this; it just doesn't interest me. It's when Taco says "Many of you are no doubt familiar with the works of mc chris." as the opening of his summary that some people get ticked off by. I actually peeked at the comments wondering if I was alone in having no clue who he was.
Mind you I don't offer criticism of him, or assume that his work must be garbage because it's rap. But I thought it might help to explain why there's so many comments that match the one you described.
Men and women don't always take the same approach to problems. When you've just starting to brainstorm and figure out how to tackle something, you want as many different perspectives as possible.
I like to have people nothing like me in design phase, and then I wish I could clone myself for implementation.
If you've got overloaded functions, you're not writing C anymore.