Thanks for a perfect example of the type of thinking which will keep IIS and other Microsoft type stuff in the dust. Rather than just doing the job, software that checks for other versions of itself, because of programmers with attitudes like yours, inhibits the flexibility of people like me.
I'm not going to answer your question, because if you can't figure it out yourself, you are undeserving of enlightenment. Suffice to say that I do, I can, and I have good reasons.
Can you install two different versions of IIS and have them run on different ports and/or addresses? Install or uninstall without rebooting? Change or inspect the source code?
He contends that while there is no question that a few games have content that some audiences will find offensive, the same can be said for some content in TV,
Um, the V-Chip, Janet Jackson's nipple...
films,
It seems to me that the movie industry, haveing been made an offer it couldn't refuse (from the US gov't back in the '20s) set up self regulation: Films get rated, distributors won't screen X, unrated or (often) NC-17 films.
music,
Content labels, and the world's largest retailer won't carry potty-mouth stuff.
and books.
Well, they've certainly been banned in the US before. Ulysses, Lolita....
Since the government does not regulate the sales of those entertainment industries...
There are plenty of countries with more violence than the United States.
Yep. I specified developed, first world countries. Who cares if 10/100k are murdered if 100/100k starve?
For sexual immorality, IIRC, Great Britain has a much higher teen pregnancy rate than the United States.
Bzzzzzt. A quick Google suggest GB's rate is about 1/2 of that of the US, but thanks for playing. And you can keep your "Sexual Immorality," whatever that may be.
I do not think the level of violence in the US is acceptable. However, one thing to consider is that the US is extremely heterogenous...
Bzzzt. I live in the "most multicultural city" in the world, and our murder rate is significantly below Salt Lake City, to give an example of a US city which is quite (VERY?) homogenous and has a comparatively low murder rate.
No matter what the measure -- gun control, banning/regulating violent videogames/movies/TV/comic books, punitive sentencing laws etcetera -- there's always someone arguing passionately against it.
I firmly believe that there are some people whose morality and upbringing inoculates them against committing violent acts, some who would do it regardless, and some who are borderline cases, for whom the constant diet of violence on TV and in video games (and, who knows, in their real life surroundings) is just the push they need.
Do people who are against video game regulation consider the level of violence in the US acceptable? If not, what do they see as the causes of America's very high (relative to other "first world" or developed nations) rates of violence, and what do they propose to do about it?
I wasn't watching around the clock, but I saw no evidence of any science being done at all on this mission.
NASA uses the word 'science' as a figleaf. What they mainly do is engineering, and they badly do what they should have perfected 20 years ago.
Microchips have become routine, brain surgery has become routine, but in 'rocket science' there's been no progress. It's a process and internal culture issue, and it isn't being fixed.
Google's profit was recently reported as having quadrupled, compared to the year earlier quarter. W00t!
But if you compare it to the immediately preceeding calendar quarter, it was down. When you're big enough that seasonal trends are a bigger part of profit variability than growth, you're not a wild growth stock anymore.
Is this like groups.google.com, which automatically redirects to groups-beta...? If they don't feel they're ready for prime-time, why should anyone be shilling for them to become part of my workflow?
Back when *I* was a lad, betas were inflicted on small percentages of the final end-user market, not broadly marketed to everyone with 'beta' serving as a mere disclaimer and caveat. Google in particular, seems to have never ending betas of everything. If it's labelled untested, not to be relied upon and subject to change, just wake me when it's done, OK?
As such, I'd really like to see an actual lawsuit some time where the developers of the project that was ripped off seek (punitive) damages, and maybe, if the case allows for it, press criminal charges against the company executives, too. Violating a free software license is *no* small matter - it's just as illegal and immoral as it is to press and sell illegally-produced copies of Windows
Well, that's your theory. Have you got case law to back it up? I don't have much trouble imagining a judge, who's easily able to quantify Microsoft's $250 (e.g.) loss on a pirated copy of Windows, having real trouble quantifying the loss of a wronged GPL developer and calling it zero.
What if the Judge in the case you want to see litigated takes after Richard Posner?
Anyone who thinks its a hash collision problem, but that only people with 'weak' passwords will be affected doesn't understand hashing.
Anyone who, in this day and age, writes a system whereby two users assign themselves the same password and end up with the same hashed password ought to be shot. Add a little SALT!
I've wondered about the legality of such behaviour. At the point where a company knows its product has a vulnerability, has a fix for that vulnerability, and deliberately withholds the fix from customers, knowing that some of them are likely to be hacked and suffer losses, is it not negligent?
This would likely vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. Anyone got an amateur/professional legal opinion?
Whenever violence in games comes up here, there's a chorus of people who say that there's no causality between violence in videogames and violence in real life.
Similarly, gun nuts say "guns don't kill people, people kill people" and fans of violent movies deny their role.
Are Americans HAPPY with the level of violence in their society, or perhaps accepting of it because it is a necessary trade-off for some other desirable aspect of their culture? Because it's undeniable that compared to other civilized first world countries, the level of violence in America is very high. Yet every interest group insists that their pet recreation has nothing to do with it. If videogames don't contribute to violent behaviour, what IS causing America's disproportionately high levels of violence?
If you want to know how many idiots are out there, anounce that your RNG can predict the future and that the data file is "here," then wait to see how many download it. They're self selected idiots.
Really, who are we to say how Oracle should price its products?
Now Intel has a lot of nerve. Their architecture sucked so bad (due to register starvation) that they had to come up with this dual-core kludge to get past the brick wall that their performance hit. They market it to everyone as dual core, like two processors, twice the power etcetera, and then get all sanctimonious when companies that charge per CPU say "Well OK then, that's two CPUs!" Who didn't see that coming?
Methinks they're speaking out of both sides of their mouthpiece.
I have been playing 'violent' video games I was in 2-3rd grade. I'm 21 now, have a wife, a 8 month old dauther, stable job as a programmer for a very successful company. I am also, one of the most passive, non-violent people you'll ever meet.
Hopefully, that means Intel will actually start shipping the new technology instead of waiting four months after the announcement for retail products.
Want to change Intel's behaviour? Don't give them any press when they announce "real soon now" stuff, only when they actually ship. But if/. (and other media) print every press release, the press releases will keep coming.
Oh, you mean the company that forgot how to build airplanes in 1997?* The one that's losing their shirts to Airbus in the high stakes poker game that is large aircraft product development?
I felt better before I knew there were Boeing people involved. That company seems to think that, with enough lobbying muscle in Washington, they can paper over all sorts of engineering and management problems. Maybe they're right, but I'd rather fly with a product that got the engineering right in the first place.
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Thanks for a perfect example of the type of thinking which will keep IIS and other Microsoft type stuff in the dust. Rather than just doing the job, software that checks for other versions of itself, because of programmers with attitudes like yours, inhibits the flexibility of people like me.
I'm not going to answer your question, because if you can't figure it out yourself, you are undeserving of enlightenment. Suffice to say that I do, I can, and I have good reasons.
Can you install two different versions of IIS and have them run on different ports and/or addresses? Install or uninstall without rebooting? Change or inspect the source code?
Dunno. How long has Wal mart been running US foreign policy viz China?
Um, the V-Chip, Janet Jackson's nipple...
films,
It seems to me that the movie industry, haveing been made an offer it couldn't refuse (from the US gov't back in the '20s) set up self regulation: Films get rated, distributors won't screen X, unrated or (often) NC-17 films.
music,
Content labels, and the world's largest retailer won't carry potty-mouth stuff.
and books.
Well, they've certainly been banned in the US before. Ulysses, Lolita....
Since the government does not regulate the sales of those entertainment industries...
Bzzzzzt.
Of course, and if you cared to use Google, you could too. My post contained all the information you need, if you're competent.
Yep. I specified developed, first world countries. Who cares if 10/100k are murdered if 100/100k starve?
For sexual immorality, IIRC, Great Britain has a much higher teen pregnancy rate than the United States.
Bzzzzzt. A quick Google suggest GB's rate is about 1/2 of that of the US, but thanks for playing. And you can keep your "Sexual Immorality," whatever that may be.
Bzzzt. I live in the "most multicultural city" in the world, and our murder rate is significantly below Salt Lake City, to give an example of a US city which is quite (VERY?) homogenous and has a comparatively low murder rate.
I firmly believe that there are some people whose morality and upbringing inoculates them against committing violent acts, some who would do it regardless, and some who are borderline cases, for whom the constant diet of violence on TV and in video games (and, who knows, in their real life surroundings) is just the push they need.
Do people who are against video game regulation consider the level of violence in the US acceptable? If not, what do they see as the causes of America's very high (relative to other "first world" or developed nations) rates of violence, and what do they propose to do about it?
Car style 12V cigarette lighter
Where, oh where would it be more efficient to use this crazy scheme than to generate electricity by various conventional means, then make ice with it?
NASA uses the word 'science' as a figleaf. What they mainly do is engineering, and they badly do what they should have perfected 20 years ago.
Microchips have become routine, brain surgery has become routine, but in 'rocket science' there's been no progress. It's a process and internal culture issue, and it isn't being fixed.
But if you compare it to the immediately preceeding calendar quarter, it was down. When you're big enough that seasonal trends are a bigger part of profit variability than growth, you're not a wild growth stock anymore.
Back when *I* was a lad, betas were inflicted on small percentages of the final end-user market, not broadly marketed to everyone with 'beta' serving as a mere disclaimer and caveat. Google in particular, seems to have never ending betas of everything. If it's labelled untested, not to be relied upon and subject to change, just wake me when it's done, OK?
'nuff said
Well, that's your theory. Have you got case law to back it up? I don't have much trouble imagining a judge, who's easily able to quantify Microsoft's $250 (e.g.) loss on a pirated copy of Windows, having real trouble quantifying the loss of a wronged GPL developer and calling it zero.
What if the Judge in the case you want to see litigated takes after Richard Posner?
Anyone who, in this day and age, writes a system whereby two users assign themselves the same password and end up with the same hashed password ought to be shot. Add a little SALT!
This would likely vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. Anyone got an amateur/professional legal opinion?
Similarly, gun nuts say "guns don't kill people, people kill people" and fans of violent movies deny their role.
Are Americans HAPPY with the level of violence in their society, or perhaps accepting of it because it is a necessary trade-off for some other desirable aspect of their culture? Because it's undeniable that compared to other civilized first world countries, the level of violence in America is very high. Yet every interest group insists that their pet recreation has nothing to do with it. If videogames don't contribute to violent behaviour, what IS causing America's disproportionately high levels of violence?
If you want to know how many idiots are out there, anounce that your RNG can predict the future and that the data file is "here," then wait to see how many download it. They're self selected idiots.
Now Intel has a lot of nerve. Their architecture sucked so bad (due to register starvation) that they had to come up with this dual-core kludge to get past the brick wall that their performance hit. They market it to everyone as dual core, like two processors, twice the power etcetera, and then get all sanctimonious when companies that charge per CPU say "Well OK then, that's two CPUs!" Who didn't see that coming?
Methinks they're speaking out of both sides of their mouthpiece.
This is you, right? porn freak tells all on slashdot
Want to change Intel's behaviour? Don't give them any press when they announce "real soon now" stuff, only when they actually ship. But if /. (and other media) print every press release, the press releases will keep coming.
Oops, here's the link
I felt better before I knew there were Boeing people involved. That company seems to think that, with enough lobbying muscle in Washington, they can paper over all sorts of engineering and management problems. Maybe they're right, but I'd rather fly with a product that got the engineering right in the first place.
* - http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/02_20 /b3783001.htm
Haw Haw.
Man dreams of space, begins pouring concrete for launch pad. Big deal. Does he have a ship? A design? Anything?