The only reason that publishers of stuff bother with it is because they are trying to keep the intellectual rights they have loosed within the bounds they defined for that loosing in the face of a society that, by and large, winks at the thieves that bedevil them.
The real reason that publishers "bother" is because they make their living distributing the works of others.
I don't want to steal from any artist I'm a fan of. Yet I'm also very well aware that for every AUS$30 I spend on a new CD, the artist will see at best AUS$1.
And yet I'm expected to swallow that they're more concerned with the artist getting that single dollar than they are their share? To me, it seems they're more stringantly defending their current distribution monopoly despite the growing evolution of a cheaper medium.
The article's example about null is stupid. Null = "I don't know". In that context, how could you include values of " 47" if you don't know what the value should be for a particular record?
The actual example was "all entries where field X is not equal to 47", so in SQL that would be "SELECT * FROM Table WHERE X 47".
The argument is that because null values aren't considered to be comparable to non-null values, no record where the field X is null would be returned. For those records, X isn't 47...which is why the current syntax is considered to be imprecise.
Basically, if you have to mentally add an implicit "AND X IS NOT NULL" to every condition, wouldn't it be better to make everything explicit and clear instead?
(And yeah, this was a lousy article and thread...the last time Tutorial D was covered here - all of, what, a month ago? - I was a lot more inclined to read up on it... The snide editorials in the article summaries ("although we think it would be like pushing water uphill though") certainly don't help.)
Actually, going on the discussion regarding the differences in the two major chip sets and how this would impact on any such emulation, most of these people do seem to be talking about all they know.
Yet you somehow think that recourse to some mythical team of Indian emulator developers is excuse enough to label them the crack abusers?
Not disclosing your relationship to a product you are promoting, however, is extremely low
Something the IT retail industry really needs to learn, and fast.
If you're wearing a freebie polo shirt from AMD and you try to convince me to change my order from Intel chips to AMD, well, I'm going to treat you with the sort of contempt our society normally reserves for used-car salesmen.
Unfortunately, this approach seems to be the norm...
Gnome and KDE are going to co-exist for some time. Get used to it.
I really wish everyone would. I cannot understand the approval here for restricting focus to one desktop implementation...are monopolies only negative when they're Microsoft imposed?
Similarly, the efforts of groups like freedesktop.org should encourage the development of new UI metaphors.
When our Prime Minister can legally pay his son's business to spam self-promoting political crap to his electorate, I'd have to question your use of the word "effective".
Sure they were 'transferred'. Right along with the black list as to who to fire when they get there. Isn't that the same thing as being laid off or should I pick on semantics more?
Unless there were 1400 names on that 'black list' then yes, you do need to "pick on semantics" some more. If you're going to make ridiculous "but what about the children?!"-type posts, you'd better have something other than rhetoric to defend it.
Whenever anyone from the recording industry talks about the best interests of "music", I just mentally substitute that word with "parasites profitting off the creativity of others" and it all makes a lot more sense...
Which, ironically, is exactly what they're accusing everyone else of being.
When you're talking about human events, there's no way to remove bias.
This, I think, is the real issue at stake here. It reminds me of the criticisms leveled at WikiPedia, that it somehow isn't an "authoritative" text in the way that a print encyclopedia is...
People should never have been relying upon single points of access for information. The freedom with which subjective views can be expressed on the internet has only underscored this.
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Still, going from nothing to proof-of-concept in 2 days does say a lot about the usefulness of the language, IMO:) Whether that's due to the accessiblity of the language, comprehensive libraries or the convergence of both isn't as important, to me, as the fact that it's possible.
You'd get a lot more credibility as something other than a troll if you considered explaining what that "good stuff" was as equally important as criticising what everyone else found of interest.
In other words, put up or shut up.
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Like ot or not, it would be hard to argue that any single company has invested more heavily in usability than Microsoft.
Hard? Not at all. Apple have clearly devoted more resources to usability than Microsoft. It's really, really obvious to anyone who's actually used one.
In a country where political campaigning is explicitly excluded from the truth in advertising legal requirements, double standards are the name of the game...
I'd sure be "proud" of my son's own business if I had to foot the bill for it too...
You know, maybe other people posting here actually spent some time researching what WinFS is allegedly able to do...god knows there have been enough articles detailing it.
You, on the other hand, seem to prefer wasting your time on being an opinionated asshole. Good luck with that.
Really? That's funny, I don't recall it being the media offering Free Trade agreements with Australia in exchange for the dismissal of local media content restrictions...
When US President George W Bush addressed the Australian Parliament, 18-year old Ahmed Habib and his mother Maha, were the invited guests of Greens Senators Nettle and Brown. During Mr Bush's speech, Ahmed stood up in the public gallery and asked about this father, who has been held without charge for nearly two years.
As Ahmed was removed from the gallery by security officers, he called "what about my father's rights?"
And it certainly wasn't the media that answered with smarmy remarks about loving free speech...
Of course, if you took the Whitehouse' version of events as being gospel, it's no wonder you're confused...the official record doesn't manage to record exactly what was said in protest yet somehow they transcribed every pathetic laugh:
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The real reason that publishers "bother" is because they make their living distributing the works of others.
I don't want to steal from any artist I'm a fan of. Yet I'm also very well aware that for every AUS$30 I spend on a new CD, the artist will see at best AUS$1.
And yet I'm expected to swallow that they're more concerned with the artist getting that single dollar than they are their share? To me, it seems they're more stringantly defending their current distribution monopoly despite the growing evolution of a cheaper medium.
What makes your reference any more trustworthy?
Honestly, the combo of a modchip, XBMC and a HDD full of Adult Swim has sold more of my friends on the Xbox than anything commercially offered.
The actual example was "all entries where field X is not equal to 47", so in SQL that would be "SELECT * FROM Table WHERE X 47".
The argument is that because null values aren't considered to be comparable to non-null values, no record where the field X is null would be returned. For those records, X isn't 47...which is why the current syntax is considered to be imprecise.
Basically, if you have to mentally add an implicit "AND X IS NOT NULL" to every condition, wouldn't it be better to make everything explicit and clear instead?
(And yeah, this was a lousy article and thread...the last time Tutorial D was covered here - all of, what, a month ago? - I was a lot more inclined to read up on it... The snide editorials in the article summaries ("although we think it would be like pushing water uphill though") certainly don't help.)
Actually, going on the discussion regarding the differences in the two major chip sets and how this would impact on any such emulation, most of these people do seem to be talking about all they know.
Yet you somehow think that recourse to some mythical team of Indian emulator developers is excuse enough to label them the crack abusers?
Seriously, put down the pipe.
Even better, they've (and we've!) got two whole unchallenged years to make the linux desktop competitive with Windows.
Let's get cracking!
Something the IT retail industry really needs to learn, and fast.
If you're wearing a freebie polo shirt from AMD and you try to convince me to change my order from Intel chips to AMD, well, I'm going to treat you with the sort of contempt our society normally reserves for used-car salesmen.
Unfortunately, this approach seems to be the norm...
I really wish everyone would. I cannot understand the approval here for restricting focus to one desktop implementation...are monopolies only negative when they're Microsoft imposed?
Similarly, the efforts of groups like freedesktop.org should encourage the development of new UI metaphors.
When our Prime Minister can legally pay his son's business to spam self-promoting political crap to his electorate, I'd have to question your use of the word "effective".
Unless there were 1400 names on that 'black list' then yes, you do need to "pick on semantics" some more. If you're going to make ridiculous "but what about the children?!"-type posts, you'd better have something other than rhetoric to defend it.
Which, ironically, is exactly what they're accusing everyone else of being.
I dunno, $75 billion profit buys a hell of a lot of weather control R&D...
This, I think, is the real issue at stake here. It reminds me of the criticisms leveled at WikiPedia, that it somehow isn't an "authoritative" text in the way that a print encyclopedia is...
People should never have been relying upon single points of access for information. The freedom with which subjective views can be expressed on the internet has only underscored this.
Still, going from nothing to proof-of-concept in 2 days does say a lot about the usefulness of the language, IMO :) Whether that's due to the accessiblity of the language, comprehensive libraries or the convergence of both isn't as important, to me, as the fact that it's possible.
Are you referring to the repeatedly delayed now-late-2006 launch of Longhorn (sans WinFS)?
Or did you perhaps mean the Pay-For-A-Service-Pack approach to feature extension that is OS X.etc?
Yep, I've definitely found the OSS community terribly lacking in those regards...must be my idealogical blahblahblah-ing, I guess.
You'd get a lot more credibility as something other than a troll if you considered explaining what that "good stuff" was as equally important as criticising what everyone else found of interest.
In other words, put up or shut up.
Like ot or not, it would be hard to argue that any single company has invested more heavily in usability than Microsoft.
Hard? Not at all. Apple have clearly devoted more resources to usability than Microsoft. It's really, really obvious to anyone who's actually used one.
I'd sure be "proud" of my son's own business if I had to foot the bill for it too...
You, on the other hand, seem to prefer wasting your time on being an opinionated asshole. Good luck with that.
Never had an actual relationship between equals, have you?
However, one important thing AI researchers have learned already is that natural intelligence is a lot more limited than we used to think.
You mean they've been reading slashdot interpretations of their research?
It amazes me the sheer level of pedantry that goes on here...and how quickly being right stops being important as soon as you're wrong...
I kind of like this idea. But why bother rescanning the ballot?
You cast your vote and your given a printed receipt to verify which way voted, which you then drop into an old fashioned ballot box.
Instant recording of votes, confirmation of how you've voted, plus a paper trail which can be manually or OCR counted after the fact....
Because you sound like a paranoid moron if you continue to use "communist".
(http://www.kerrynettle.org.au/300_campaigns_sub .php?&deptItemID=1)
And it certainly wasn't the media that answered with smarmy remarks about loving free speech...
Of course, if you took the Whitehouse' version of events as being gospel, it's no wonder you're confused...the official record doesn't manage to record exactly what was said in protest yet somehow they transcribed every pathetic laugh:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/10/20 031022-12.html