That is the worst argument I've ever heard in my life.
the DMCA makes it a crime to break copy protection. you might not like it, and you may think it is a lesser crime than murder (like most sane people would) but the fact that murder is a greater crime does not make a lesser crime not a crime.
If you were to physically steal 99c from someone, it would be a crime, even though it is far less a crime than murder.
Note, I'm not trying to state a view as to whether or not copying music is a crime, only that it is possible for petty crimes to exist.
Linux is a bad example...the GPL exists and works BECAUSE of IP Law, the license gets it's strength from the fact that the only leagal way to copy or derive from a GPL'd work is by accepting the license.
If it were not for copyright law, you could just ignore the license and take the code anyway.
Now for the musician point of view, whilst those musician friends of yours might be happy having people listen to their music, whether they payed for it or not, how would they feel if the next mass produced plastic pop star made some record company millions by singing one of their songs without permission, accreditation or compensation?
IP and copyright are about more than some 15 year old kid downloading songs with Kazaa.
I can accept that there are problems with some aspects of current law (duration being the bigest one), but the original intent of the laws are sound. If an artist or coder wants to give away their work they can. Those that don't want to, shouldn't have to.
1) will modding my case make my computer fast, more capable, or "better" in any way?
No, probably not 2) will it get me all the hot computer groupie chicks?
Again, no, unlikely
3) if i cared about esthetics so much, wouldn't it have been more cost-effective to buy a mac?
I don't know, unless you can point me to an x86 machine made by Apple? 4) can my quasi-artistic needs be channeled into better projects?
Almost certainly 5) will other people think about me the same as they do when they see a guy driving a civic with a huge wing and fartcan exhaust?
Maybe they will, maybe they won't, but that's more of a problem for them 6) is modding my case really just a desparate cry for attention?
No. No it isn't 7) ??? 8) profit!
Yes, that's exactly the point -
An advantageous gain or return; benefit.
It's a J2EE container / application server, which means that yes it'll host EJBs but EJB is not it's sole purpose.
J2EE application servers provide EJB, JMS, Servlet/JSP, Web Services, JNDI for service and resource location, and a whole heap of other standard APIs.
Geronimo takes the approach of integrating a whole heap of existing apache licensed components into the one cohesive server.
A lot of people think that EJB is all there is to J2EE, but it's not - in fact it's the least important component, the one that should be avoided completely unless you really know you need it.
Or rather, find out about it, and understand that you don't have to use it, and that even when you think you have to use it, you don't have to use it. There is far more to J2EE than EJB, and most of it is all actually very useful, and easy to use.
The only thing moore's law considers is the number of transistors in a CPU - architecture / clock speed and even actual performance are not considered at all.
The fact that this typicaly corresponds in some way with the power of of the CPU is what leads to the common misconception (and misuse) that Moore's law is talking about power - or even worse, clock speed.
It's a C++ development toolkit - the users of this software are by definition developers. Also, the article is posted in the "Developers" section of slashdot, it was never intended to interest you. If it bothers you so much, turn off the Developers section in your preferences.
You didn't read the post did you?
Leave aside for the moment the question of whether employees should do personal surfing on company time or what type of material is appropriate to view from work. Please answer these questions: How can content creators prevent their entire domain from being blacklisted because of a small amount of controversial content?
what makes you think this is an open source product?
It looks commercial and proprietry to me...
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Good site, thanks!
I love the bowling ball idea for Armageddon...heh
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Um no...he means loose.
loose ( P ) Pronunciation Key (ls) adj. looser, loosest
1. Not fastened, restrained, or contained: loose bricks.
2. Not taut, fixed, or rigid: a loose anchor line; a loose chair leg.
3. Free from confinement or imprisonment; unfettered: criminals loose in the neighborhood; dogs that are loose on the streets.
4. Not tight-fitting or tightly fitted: loose shoes.
5. Not bound, bundled, stapled, or gathered together: loose papers.
6. Not compact or dense in arrangement or structure: loose gravel.
7. Lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility; idle: loose talk.
8. Not formal; relaxed: a loose atmosphere at the club.
9. Lacking conventional moral restraint in sexual behavior.
10. Not literal or exact: a loose translation.
11. Characterized by a free movement of fluids in the body: a loose cough; loose bowels.
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Actually, that makes me wonder if he was actually too close to the mark for the scientists to handle...
You don't see scientists getting up in arms about movies like The Core, or Armageddon so why are they all defensive about this one?
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So they cant change a horrible dialogue box that the sort of users that cant cope with change would never even see, but they're free to suddenly decide in one version that 80% of the menu items will mysteriously disapear unless you know to click the bottom of the menu?
No. C Macros are simply replaced and become real code - whatever that code is - during the pre processing stage (cpp for CGG) and before the compiler goes near it. The fact of something being a macro does not increase the size of the executable by itself.
_IF_ you represent more than one expression as a macro, and _IF_ those expressions could be split out into a function, then you would get a space saving (at the expense of speed, as you said) if that macro / function was used more than once (maybe more than twice, I'm not sure what overhead a function adds to a binary). But there's nothing about macros that say you have to use them like functions. In fact, a lot of the time they're used to do things you cant do with functions.
But the macros in question here were making a shortcut for "for(i = a; i b; i++)" which you obviously can't turn into a function.
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That is the worst argument I've ever heard in my life.
the DMCA makes it a crime to break copy protection. you might not like it, and you may think it is a lesser crime than murder (like most sane people would) but the fact that murder is a greater crime does not make a lesser crime not a crime.
If you were to physically steal 99c from someone, it would be a crime, even though it is far less a crime than murder.
Note, I'm not trying to state a view as to whether or not copying music is a crime, only that it is possible for petty crimes to exist.
I think he was well aware of that....hence his tounge in cheek post.
Linux is a bad example...the GPL exists and works BECAUSE of IP Law, the license gets it's strength from the fact that the only leagal way to copy or derive from a GPL'd work is by accepting the license.
If it were not for copyright law, you could just ignore the license and take the code anyway.
Now for the musician point of view, whilst those musician friends of yours might be happy having people listen to their music, whether they payed for it or not, how would they feel if the next mass produced plastic pop star made some record company millions by singing one of their songs without permission, accreditation or compensation?
IP and copyright are about more than some 15 year old kid downloading songs with Kazaa.
I can accept that there are problems with some aspects of current law (duration being the bigest one), but the original intent of the laws are sound. If an artist or coder wants to give away their work they can. Those that don't want to, shouldn't have to.
1) will modding my case make my computer fast, more capable, or "better" in any way?
No, probably not
2) will it get me all the hot computer groupie chicks?
Again, no, unlikely
3) if i cared about esthetics so much, wouldn't it have been more cost-effective to buy a mac?
I don't know, unless you can point me to an x86 machine made by Apple?
4) can my quasi-artistic needs be channeled into better projects?
Almost certainly
5) will other people think about me the same as they do when they see a guy driving a civic with a huge wing and fartcan exhaust?
Maybe they will, maybe they won't, but that's more of a problem for them
6) is modding my case really just a desparate cry for attention?
No. No it isn't
7) ???
8) profit!
Yes, that's exactly the point -
An advantageous gain or return; benefit.
Where exactly is "strong proof" supposed to come from, if everyone wants to dismiss straight away the very people looking for that proof?
How about you wait until the guy has his proof and judge him on that. Until then you can say anything you like, but it doesn't mean anything.
try XScorch or Atomic Tanks
That's not really accurate.
It's a J2EE container / application server, which means that yes it'll host EJBs but EJB is not it's sole purpose.
J2EE application servers provide EJB, JMS, Servlet/JSP, Web Services, JNDI for service and resource location, and a whole heap of other standard APIs.
Geronimo takes the approach of integrating a whole heap of existing apache licensed components into the one cohesive server.
A lot of people think that EJB is all there is to J2EE, but it's not - in fact it's the least important component, the one that should be avoided completely unless you really know you need it.
Forget about EJB.
Or rather, find out about it, and understand that you don't have to use it, and that even when you think you have to use it, you don't have to use it.
There is far more to J2EE than EJB, and most of it is all actually very useful, and easy to use.
The only thing moore's law considers is the number of transistors in a CPU - architecture / clock speed and even actual performance are not considered at all.
The fact that this typicaly corresponds in some way with the power of of the CPU is what leads to the common misconception (and misuse) that Moore's law is talking about power - or even worse, clock speed.
It doesn't. But it does affect what they're gonna do about it.
exactly - so?
It's a C++ development toolkit - the users of this software are by definition developers.
Also, the article is posted in the "Developers" section of slashdot, it was never intended to interest you. If it bothers you so much, turn off the Developers section in your preferences.
Actually it was originaly a problem in Windows.
She used Knoppix to verify that it was not a problem with the operating system or drivers, and was instead a problem of the modem.
You didn't read the post did you? Leave aside for the moment the question of whether employees should do personal surfing on company time or what type of material is appropriate to view from work. Please answer these questions: How can content creators prevent their entire domain from being blacklisted because of a small amount of controversial content?
what makes you think this is an open source product?
It looks commercial and proprietry to me...
Good site, thanks!
I love the bowling ball idea for Armageddon...heh
Um no...he means loose.
loose ( P ) Pronunciation Key (ls)
adj. looser, loosest
1. Not fastened, restrained, or contained: loose bricks.
2. Not taut, fixed, or rigid: a loose anchor line; a loose chair leg.
3. Free from confinement or imprisonment; unfettered: criminals loose in the neighborhood; dogs that are loose on the streets.
4. Not tight-fitting or tightly fitted: loose shoes.
5. Not bound, bundled, stapled, or gathered together: loose papers.
6. Not compact or dense in arrangement or structure: loose gravel.
7. Lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility; idle: loose talk.
8. Not formal; relaxed: a loose atmosphere at the club.
9. Lacking conventional moral restraint in sexual behavior.
10. Not literal or exact: a loose translation.
11. Characterized by a free movement of fluids in the body: a loose cough; loose bowels.
Actually, that makes me wonder if he was actually too close to the mark for the scientists to handle...
You don't see scientists getting up in arms about movies like The Core, or Armageddon so why are they all defensive about this one?
You make the assumption that someone who dies doing something stupid always does stupid things.
That might have been the first (and last) stupid thing they ever did.
The next thing they were going to do could have been a cure for cancer.
Everyone does stupid things every now and then.
prose (P) Pronunciation Key (prz)
n.
1. Ordinary speech or writing, without metrical structure.
2. Commonplace expression or quality.
This sentence is prose, as it is an ordinary sentence.
Lyrics from a song, and a poem from LotR are not prose, they are verse.
take a wild guess
So they cant change a horrible dialogue box that the sort of users that cant cope with change would never even see, but they're free to suddenly decide in one version that 80% of the menu items will mysteriously disapear unless you know to click the bottom of the menu?
Actually, 2001 is the first year I can find a news article proclaiming it to be the "Year of the Linux Desktop".
1997 - 2000 were just the "Year of Linux" in general.
Who are you talking about?
Australia, or the USA?
argh...slashcode ate my less than sign!
and I meant GCC, not CGG obviously.
No.
C Macros are simply replaced and become real code - whatever that code is - during the pre processing stage (cpp for CGG) and before the compiler goes near it. The fact of something being a macro does not increase the size of the executable by itself.
_IF_ you represent more than one expression as a macro, and _IF_ those expressions could be split out into a function, then you would get a space saving (at the expense of speed, as you said) if that macro / function was used more than once (maybe more than twice, I'm not sure what overhead a function adds to a binary). But there's nothing about macros that say you have to use them like functions. In fact, a lot of the time they're used to do things you cant do with functions.
But the macros in question here were making a shortcut for "for(i = a; i b; i++)" which you obviously can't turn into a function.