Copyright holders already have legal processes to follow: DMCA takedown notices (sent under penalty of perjury) and civil lawsuits. If they don't choose to use them, tough.
They frequently bleat that it's expensive. It is, but mainly for the people they accuse, who can't afford to defend it.
They frequently bleat that it's difficult to prove. That's hardly an excuse to make accusation the only burden of proof required, is it?
They make it sound like freakin' M$ invented the technology... it was in Linux long before and other system even before that! M$ is just using other peoples' ideas, as usual.
I think it was with Tom Sellek - he was a cop that had the job of shutting down runaway robots. One of the calls he was on was rescuing Kirsty Alley from an office guard robot, that shot lightning bolts at what it thought were intruders.
Your employer can fire you anytime he wants to. Period.
As for this particular case, had the guy's name been John Smith, I f*cking guarantee he would have been fired and no worthless, piece of sh*t liberal judge would have interfered.
This is another attempt to bribe voters by the government.
Nothing the government does is free.
Add up all your taxes. Add up federal income taxes, local taxes, state income taxes, sales taxes, social security taxes, medicare taxes, gasoline taxes, property taxes, taxes on business passedon to consumers, taxes on phone, taxes on cable , taxes on utilities etc etc etc.
If you add up all the taxes you pay you will see that the government takes at least 50% of the money you make every year. So if you make $40,000 per year.then you the government steals $20,000 dollars per year. if you make $20,000 per year then the government steals $10,000 per year of your money. And all for many insane government projects, NPR, Public television, museums, Trips to Mars to collect rocks, insane studies, and millions of wasteful uneeded governmeng programs, medicaid for negros that don't want to work,public housing, public this , public that, welfare etc.
If you saved those $10,000 per year you would be rich in no time.
I would rather pay $20 to get great service than to have the government grow more and do more and to have the governmen justify taking even more of my paycheck than they already do. Socialism doesn't work. anything the gov. can do private companies like google can do better.
How can God build a brain with neurons that make faulty immoral choices and then send it to hell?? Huh? Is God a bad designer that he does not know in advance how his creatures will behave?
is that the timeframe calling for trial no earlier than 2 years from today is going to bore whichever audience this thing had to death. Such delays seem very anachronistic in a time where lots of people don't have the attention span to watch a 120-minute movie.
Once Linux distributors get their act together, it won't be long before semi-disposable laptop computers will become available. The Nick Negroponte hand-cranked, third-world computer will spawn a commercial version.
Linux as the OS, Open Office, Mozilla, a few other key apps, and with no "Microsoft Tax", and no headache in installing Linux on a used Win-Tel machine, plus a few "styling options," these machines will sell like hotcakes!
Then, of course, the virus writers will shift to more fertle grounds, and all the bad that goes with the good...
Much of the innovation and research that the private sector took credit for (and profits from) was done by the government. For example in bio-medical sciences, the majority of pharmaceutical products would not be around if it were not done for the foundational research done by groups like NIH. Big pharma takes credit for developing HIV cocktails and the recent HPV vaccine (sorry, NIH did all the important research for both of those, and pharma companies simply paid relatively tiny fees to then do clinical trials on the drugs and reap mega-profits).
The commentary is way out of line. The government did (and continues to do so) fund basic research that is used in many many consumer products, certainly including the iPod. Bush did not take credit for inventing it, nor did he give the government credit for inventing it, but simply pointed out that some of the core tech was funded by the government. AND that was long, long before MP3. He also did not say he did it at the behest of Mr. Jobs; hell, a lot of the core research done on compression was done when Jobs was a kid.
Let's convene a conference about birds being killed by paned glass.
Maybe the UN can get hold of the issue and negotiate a deal with glassmakers that would see them manage a fund dedicated to supporting the abandoned chicks of deceased winged parents cut-down by clear glass panes.
Then they could siphon a little off for themselves and their immediate relatives and remain beyond the reach of the law, even as they grandstand as the judges of right and wrong in the world.
Birds are also being killed by the avian flu. Those concerned should be developing and distributing an innoculation for birds everywhere, but they're not, are they?
Perhaps those claiming to be avian rights supporters should be placed on trial by the UN after the UN has first secured the aforementioned sweet deal over the glass panes, at which point it might accuse the world's chief bird rights organization of fraud, misrepresentation, malfeasance and the mismanagement of the public trust.
This organization might become the subject of various resolutions, after which it might be accused of developing weapons of mass destruction, preparing the way for sanctions, an economic embargo and eventual invasion.
If you're going to go around claiming to care for birds, you'd g*ddam*ed well better be caring for birds, and not just pretending to while you pursue your hidden, nefarious anti-windmill agenda.
I can see the point if offering widely different features (like home-edition with media-center capabilities, which are absent in the business-version). But I simply can't understand the crippling of the software. The limitations in the starter edition are completely artificial, and the whole idea is downright stupid. If they really wanted to, they could have three versions: basic home-versions, home-version with media-center and business-version.
And is it just me, or is Paul Thurrot the ultimate fanboi? He might be the only person on the planet who has fallen completely under the Redmond Reality Distortion Field:-).
Dude, they're not birds. They are pterosaurs, which means they were actually reptiles, with wings like those of bats. They technically aren't even the kinds of dinosaurs from which modern birds are descended.
As for stories that stimulate the visual imagination, try reading. "Jurassic Park," for example, in the original book has a fine scene in which some of the people get stuck in a gigantic dome containing pterasaurs; the scene, or a variation of it, was recycled for use in one of the later movies of the "Jurassic Park" saga, and it was decent, but I still thought that the books were far better -- precisely because of how they relied on descriptive stimulation of the imagination for effect, and did the job very well indeed. Michael Crichton doesn't hit one out of the park every time at bat, but "Jurassic Park" was a grand slam!
I like the idea of trying to push along basic research with incentives. The development of ion thrusters proceeded at a rapid pace, so thereis reason to be optimistic if antimatter can be trapped in large amounts in the near future as this article implies. But it isn't just propulsion that would benefit from matter-antimatter power. The applications for its use are enormous.
The discussion hints of technical problems in accumulating an appropriate quantity reminded me of another plan that also had superior energy exchange potential. If using hydrogen fuel and oxygen oxidizer, both are usually in the molecular form (H2 and O2). But supposedly if the atoms were separate when doing the fuel oxidizer union, then much more energy is realized in the burn. Then too unusual processes and storage conventions were required.
The article's opening description, however, complete with using gamma rays to impart power, reminded me of the Disney "Flubber" movies.
Frankly, whether antimatter or mono-molecular, I'm holding out for Flubber.
It's a shame that the pro Windoze + Micro$oft reports get aired across the web with reeding figures in the hundreds of thousands, while this well reserched quality article of pure uncomfortable truth sits here preaching to the choir.
While the US debates such idiot topics as "creationism" and "intelligent design" and argues over abortion, the rest of the world is racing ahead in areas like stem cell research, nuclear power and computer science.
Bush and his fundamentalist neocon sycophants are ruining this country faster than any terrorist group...
Today's Software and IT industries are plagued by programming errors. While some of these errors are the result of illegal use of non-Microsoft software on rogue networks, the majority of problems stem from difficulties in mingling code of different programming languages. Standarization on the best-of-breed programming language, C++, would undoubtedly reduce errors in software.
In this article, I seek to dispel the myth that non-C++ languages are beneficial in proper Software Engineering. I outline how standardization on the C++ language can strengthen your corporation's bottom line. And I describe how to contact the men in Congress to have C++ use finally made legally mandatory.
C++, a programming language invented by Lucent's Bjarney Strupstrup in 1995, has been hailed as a God-send to Computer Science since its creation. Based on Richie Kerninghan's language "C+", C++ brought several previously-theoretical programming languages features to the mainstream:
Church-Rosser Compliance Known as "multiple inheritance" in the programming world and as "being Church-Rosser" in academia, C++'s compliance to this IEEE standard immediately placed it head-and-shoulders above other languages. "Churrossity" allows programmers to use blocks of code, called "objects," in place of other blocks of code ("arrays".) The layman can think of this as "allowing 'new' code to 'run' old code." This advance has not been possible in previous logic-based languages such as Ada.
Multi-Byte Characters C++ allowed use of "Beaster," a subset of Microsoft's COM ("Common Object Model") windowing layer. The Beaster system allows non-English-speakers such as the Welsh to use computing technology, as it could redirect the signals used to display non-English characters on a computer's monitor screen or laser printer. It is also useful in helping the blind, who speak a specialized subset of English called "ALS."
Pass-By-Text A non-recursive pass-by-text mechanism existed in Kerninghan's C+, called "macro facility." But Strupstrup did Kerninghan one better with the "String Template Loader" variable passing mechanism, which allowed text to be passed to procedures at run-time. This sped up code execution times, as code could be compiled while the user was running the program. This eliminated speed loss caused by incompatibility from obselete computer chips (Motorola and ADM.)
The superiority of C++ over other languages should be obvious. But is switching to it from other languages possible in your corporation? Astute observers will note that the eco-terrorist group FSF produces a C++ compiler called "DJGPP." Under President Bush's War on Terror, any organization supporting a terrorist organization is recursively itself a terrorist organization.
Corporations needn't worry. Microsoft has its own C++ offering, "Visual Studio." As an added bonus, Microsoft Visual Studio is highly standards compliant. It features a visual programming interface, and several features not found elsewhere (such as a visual debugger and an AOL instant messanger client called "Windows Messaging".)
But these advantages can only be realized if code written in inferior languages can be kept from polluting the inter-web eco-space. When compilers for other languages are available, low-level managers are tempted to write code in them. Why? Often times, managers are brought up from the ranks of Software Engineers, and thus lack an Executive's sense for using the right tool for the job. When these managers write code in a jungled zoo of languages, code in one program is unable to interact with code from another program (churrossity.) Only by standardizing on C++ can all programs run together smoothly. Using C++ to eliminate software errors will jump-start the sagging technology industry. This will boost our economy as a whole, which in turn will help us to win the War on Terror.
The effort to legally mandate this has been going on for a while. But it needs your
David Gerber has received a lot of flack regarding the unfortunate MorphOS situation and IMO he now deserves a lot of credit and praise for giving something away he had anticipated to get paid for!
Good news for MorphOS fans and probably useful to the AROS team as well!
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Copyright holders already have legal processes to follow: DMCA takedown notices (sent under penalty of perjury) and civil lawsuits. If they don't choose to use them, tough.
They frequently bleat that it's expensive. It is, but mainly for the people they accuse, who can't afford to defend it.
They frequently bleat that it's difficult to prove. That's hardly an excuse to make accusation the only burden of proof required, is it?
They make it sound like freakin' M$ invented the technology... it was in Linux long before and other system even before that! M$ is just using other peoples' ideas, as usual.
See wiki:Address space layout randomization.
Now instead of enjoying the college years they'll be enjoying federal pound me in the ass prison.
to hack mySpace but not to devise a better way to transfer the pay-off?
We are far too paranoid and lawsuit happy to allow this kind of tech in the States. Domo Arigato, Mr. Roboto, Domo.. Domo!
I think it was with Tom Sellek - he was a cop that had the job of shutting down runaway robots. One of the calls he was on was rescuing Kirsty Alley from an office guard robot, that shot lightning bolts at what it thought were intruders.
Your employer can fire you anytime he wants to. Period.
As for this particular case, had the guy's name been John Smith, I f*cking guarantee he would have been fired and no worthless, piece of sh*t liberal judge would have interfered.
This is another attempt to bribe voters by the government.
.then you the government steals $20,000 dollars per year. if you make $20,000 per year then the government steals $10,000 per year of your money. And all for many insane government projects, NPR, Public television, museums, Trips to Mars to collect rocks, insane studies, and millions of wasteful uneeded governmeng programs, medicaid for negros that don't want to work,public housing, public this , public that, welfare etc.
Nothing the government does is free.
Add up all your taxes. Add up federal income taxes, local taxes, state income taxes, sales taxes, social security taxes, medicare taxes, gasoline taxes, property taxes, taxes on business passedon to consumers, taxes on phone, taxes on cable , taxes on utilities etc etc etc.
If you add up all the taxes you pay you will see that the government takes at least 50% of the money you make every year. So if you make $40,000 per year
If you saved those $10,000 per year you would be rich in no time.
I would rather pay $20 to get great service than to have the government grow more and do more and to have the governmen justify taking even more of my paycheck than they already do. Socialism doesn't work. anything the gov. can do private companies like google can do better.
How can God build a brain with neurons that make faulty immoral choices and then send it to hell?? Huh? Is God a bad designer that he does not know in advance how his creatures will behave?
With alcohol and cocaine, just like Bush tried to do. See? Drugs work!
is that the timeframe calling for trial no earlier than 2 years from today is going to bore whichever audience this thing had to death. Such delays seem very anachronistic in a time where lots of people don't have the attention span to watch a 120-minute movie.
Once Linux distributors get their act together, it won't be long before semi-disposable laptop computers will become available. The Nick Negroponte hand-cranked, third-world computer will spawn a commercial version.
Linux as the OS, Open Office, Mozilla, a few other key apps, and with no "Microsoft Tax", and no headache in installing Linux on a used Win-Tel machine, plus a few "styling options," these machines will sell like hotcakes!
Then, of course, the virus writers will shift to more fertle grounds, and all the bad that goes with the good...
Much of the innovation and research that the private sector took credit for (and profits from) was done by the government. For example in bio-medical sciences, the majority of pharmaceutical products would not be around if it were not done for the foundational research done by groups like NIH. Big pharma takes credit for developing HIV cocktails and the recent HPV vaccine (sorry, NIH did all the important research for both of those, and pharma companies simply paid relatively tiny fees to then do clinical trials on the drugs and reap mega-profits).
The commentary is way out of line. The government did (and continues to do so) fund basic research that is used in many many consumer products, certainly including the iPod. Bush did not take credit for inventing it, nor did he give the government credit for inventing it, but simply pointed out that some of the core tech was funded by the government. AND that was long, long before MP3. He also did not say he did it at the behest of Mr. Jobs; hell, a lot of the core research done on compression was done when Jobs was a kid.
You don't really think he was taking credit for inventing the iPod, do you? He was just trying to get a laugh from his audience.
Let's convene a conference about birds being killed by paned glass.
Maybe the UN can get hold of the issue and negotiate a deal with glassmakers that would see them manage a fund dedicated to supporting the abandoned chicks of deceased winged parents cut-down by clear glass panes.
Then they could siphon a little off for themselves and their immediate relatives and remain beyond the reach of the law, even as they grandstand as the judges of right and wrong in the world.
Birds are also being killed by the avian flu. Those concerned should be developing and distributing an innoculation for birds everywhere, but they're not, are they?
Perhaps those claiming to be avian rights supporters should be placed on trial by the UN after the UN has first secured the aforementioned sweet deal over the glass panes, at which point it might accuse the world's chief bird rights organization of fraud, misrepresentation, malfeasance and the mismanagement of the public trust.
This organization might become the subject of various resolutions, after which it might be accused of developing weapons of mass destruction, preparing the way for sanctions, an economic embargo and eventual invasion.
If you're going to go around claiming to care for birds, you'd g*ddam*ed well better be caring for birds, and not just pretending to while you pursue your hidden, nefarious anti-windmill agenda.
I can see the point if offering widely different features (like home-edition with media-center capabilities, which are absent in the business-version). But I simply can't understand the crippling of the software. The limitations in the starter edition are completely artificial, and the whole idea is downright stupid. If they really wanted to, they could have three versions: basic home-versions, home-version with media-center and business-version.
:-).
And is it just me, or is Paul Thurrot the ultimate fanboi? He might be the only person on the planet who has fallen completely under the Redmond Reality Distortion Field
Ah yes. Surprising that the bible thumpers hadn't been out in force decrying these Satan placed hoaxes. Idiots.
By the way, Noah used the wings of one of these beasts as a sail on the ark.
Dude, they're not birds. They are pterosaurs, which means they were actually reptiles, with wings like those of bats. They technically aren't even the kinds of dinosaurs from which modern birds are descended.
As for stories that stimulate the visual imagination, try reading. "Jurassic Park," for example, in the original book has a fine scene in which some of the people get stuck in a gigantic dome containing pterasaurs; the scene, or a variation of it, was recycled for use in one of the later movies of the "Jurassic Park" saga, and it was decent, but I still thought that the books were far better -- precisely because of how they relied on descriptive stimulation of the imagination for effect, and did the job very well indeed. Michael Crichton doesn't hit one out of the park every time at bat, but "Jurassic Park" was a grand slam!
I like the idea of trying to push along basic research with incentives. The development of ion thrusters proceeded at a rapid pace, so thereis reason to be optimistic if antimatter can be trapped in large amounts in the near future as this article implies. But it isn't just propulsion that would benefit from matter-antimatter power. The applications for its use are enormous.
The discussion hints of technical problems in accumulating an appropriate quantity reminded me of another plan that also had superior energy exchange potential. If using hydrogen fuel and oxygen oxidizer, both are usually in the molecular form (H2 and O2). But supposedly if the atoms were separate when doing the fuel oxidizer union, then much more energy is realized in the burn. Then too unusual processes and storage conventions were required.
The article's opening description, however, complete with using gamma rays to impart power, reminded me of the Disney "Flubber" movies.
Frankly, whether antimatter or mono-molecular, I'm holding out for Flubber.
It's a shame that the pro Windoze + Micro$oft reports get aired across the web with reeding figures in the hundreds of thousands, while this well reserched quality article of pure uncomfortable truth sits here preaching to the choir.
Times like this make me wish I owned a newspaper.
While the US debates such idiot topics as "creationism" and "intelligent design" and argues over abortion, the rest of the world is racing ahead in areas like stem cell research, nuclear power and computer science.
Bush and his fundamentalist neocon sycophants are ruining this country faster than any terrorist group...
In this article, I seek to dispel the myth that non-C++ languages are beneficial in proper Software Engineering. I outline how standardization on the C++ language can strengthen your corporation's bottom line. And I describe how to contact the men in Congress to have C++ use finally made legally mandatory.
C++, a programming language invented by Lucent's Bjarney Strupstrup in 1995, has been hailed as a God-send to Computer Science since its creation. Based on Richie Kerninghan's language "C+", C++ brought several previously-theoretical programming languages features to the mainstream:
Church-Rosser Compliance
Known as "multiple inheritance" in the programming world and as "being Church-Rosser" in academia, C++'s compliance to this IEEE standard immediately placed it head-and-shoulders above other languages. "Churrossity" allows programmers to use blocks of code, called "objects," in place of other blocks of code ("arrays".) The layman can think of this as "allowing 'new' code to 'run' old code." This advance has not been possible in previous logic-based languages such as Ada.
Multi-Byte Characters
C++ allowed use of "Beaster," a subset of Microsoft's COM ("Common Object Model") windowing layer. The Beaster system allows non-English-speakers such as the Welsh to use computing technology, as it could redirect the signals used to display non-English characters on a computer's monitor screen or laser printer. It is also useful in helping the blind, who speak a specialized subset of English called "ALS."
Pass-By-Text
A non-recursive pass-by-text mechanism existed in Kerninghan's C+, called "macro facility." But Strupstrup did Kerninghan one better with the "String Template Loader" variable passing mechanism, which allowed text to be passed to procedures at run-time. This sped up code execution times, as code could be compiled while the user was running the program. This eliminated speed loss caused by incompatibility from obselete computer chips (Motorola and ADM.)
The superiority of C++ over other languages should be obvious. But is switching to it from other languages possible in your corporation? Astute observers will note that the eco-terrorist group FSF produces a C++ compiler called "DJGPP." Under President Bush's War on Terror, any organization supporting a terrorist organization is recursively itself a terrorist organization.
Corporations needn't worry. Microsoft has its own C++ offering, "Visual Studio." As an added bonus, Microsoft Visual Studio is highly standards compliant. It features a visual programming interface, and several features not found elsewhere (such as a visual debugger and an AOL instant messanger client called "Windows Messaging".)
But these advantages can only be realized if code written in inferior languages can be kept from polluting the inter-web eco-space. When compilers for other languages are available, low-level managers are tempted to write code in them. Why? Often times, managers are brought up from the ranks of Software Engineers, and thus lack an Executive's sense for using the right tool for the job. When these managers write code in a jungled zoo of languages, code in one program is unable to interact with code from another program (churrossity.) Only by standardizing on C++ can all programs run together smoothly. Using C++ to eliminate software errors will jump-start the sagging technology industry. This will boost our economy as a whole, which in turn will help us to win the War on Terror.
The effort to legally mandate this has been going on for a while. But it needs your
David Gerber has received a lot of flack regarding the unfortunate MorphOS situation and IMO he now deserves a lot of credit and praise for giving something away he had anticipated to get paid for!
Good news for MorphOS fans and probably useful to the AROS team as well!