Interesting. So that brings up some questions: Are the plastics getting into the environment through sewage? What will we do with the filtered plastics?
The survey analysis seems to be written by people who don't understand programming at all. The conclusions are completely idiotic.
First complaint: JavaScript is not a darling language everyone loves. It's the only language that runs on a web browser (*). So stop acting impressed or surprised at it's popularity! Duhhh!
Check out some of these gems:
But enterprise-sized companies are now using multiple languages for their projects. That's new. Historically, larger companies have practiced tighter control over production projects.
Historically, we had the ability to use a single language. But we can't any more, because every project must be JavaScript + something + probably SQL. Yes, the "something" could be JavaScript, but that isn't usually the best choice on the server side. This isn't what we *want* it is what we are stuck with because of the browser. This conclusion would only seem meaningful if you were looking at the statistics over time, but had no idea what you were talking about.
For students and programmers looking for a corporate job, it's clear the older languages are the way to go. The future is in the cloud, but its languages are decades old. At the same time, they'd be wise to pick up containers, cloud, and container manager
I don't even know what this is saying. How can the future be old? Or the cloud, which is new, be using old languages? Then they confuse languages with containers. It almost looks like a Markov generator wrote this paragraph.
the larger the company, the more languages are used.
Wait, you mean having more projects means more languages? Well it cannot possibly mean LESS languages, so this conclusion is completely mindless!
(*) Even if a developer codes in TypeScript, they would still answer "JavaScript" for survey purposes since it is never totally hidden.
You mean the language that's open source, standard, works as a base logic language interpreted within all browsers on planet earth and runs the client side, server side and database all in a singular easy to use syntax is popular?
IBM's Watson had the same advantage on Jeopardy. It was instantly fed the entire question as soon as it was picked, while the humans had to read and/or listen to the question over an analog interface.
(Do the players see the animations the TV audience sees?)
Anecdote: I cannot read text if someone is reading it aloud. Even if I read faster than them, every word they say makes me "snap" back to that word even if I am ahead. Do other people have this issue? If I was on Jeopardy this would alow me down by a few seconds.
Clearly you don't understand the conversation. No one in this thread is arguing that gold farming bots or griefing should be permitted. The argument is that the courts are applying the wrong section of law (copyright, instead of terms-of-service contract violations), and the consequence is that they are taking away legitimate tools from the white hat hacking community and the broader software development community. The courts are broadening copyright to the point where fair use is being eluded. It is affecting young coders, filmmakers, and musicians. If you are interested in this, I recommend reading the EFF's amicus briefs on some of the cases above.
Let us be clear, it is not a TOS violation against the person who *made* the tool, but for the people *using* the tool. Now, if the person who made it also used it online, then they can get that one person for a TOS violation. But the only likely remedy the court can offer is to disconnect the person's GTA account, which Take Two can already do. So Take Two is going to argue that it is a copyright violation. Their hope will be to make him liable for everyone else's use of the tool. While you and I think this is absurd, Blizzard has succeeded using this exact same argument numerous times.
I hate cheaters too. But Blizzard and their lawyers are the biggest cheaters of all. They would happily take away rights from their own families if it meant they could make a buck.
Then the player doing the griefing is violating the terms of service of the online game, not the maker of tool. Online griefing is not within the scope of copyright law. The reality here is that it is easier for Take Two to go after one man that to go after the griefers. As always, one should fix the servers so that the hacks don't work, rather than sue the hacker.
part because the FDA requires each producer to re-test the proven design so much to prove it really is exactly like the already approved one that it's almost as expensive as introducing something new, but with a lot less potential for profit.
As someone who has done this repeatedly, I can tell you that proving equivalency is an order of magnitude cheaper than proving a new design.
I am confused. Google already has a censored search engine for China at http://www.google.cn/ that has been operating for over a decade. What new ethical question is being raised here? Why are these Google employees suddenly upset now but they weren't last week?
Or they need to learn from the music industry and just sell the ROMs. They should have gone to EmuParadise and said "You have 3 months to implement a billing system, pay us $2 per download, and lets make millions together."
I am beginning to think that the file permission system used by most desktop OS's is insufficient. It would be awesome if I could install an app onto Windows and know that it can't touch any files outside of it's own installed files, without my permission. So if I install a word processor or a graphics editor, I can be assured that out-of-the-box the only files it needs access to are the ones that I click on in the file-open dialog. That is an OS dialog and my clicking on a file gives consent for the app to access it. So a malicious application can't go browsing for my QuickBooks database and read it.
Require it be post marked from a location not less than 20 miles from your otherwise assigned polling place or accompanied by a written statement on pain of purgery that you were physically unable to travel to the polling place (hospitalized, deployed as a member of the armed forces etc).
Most absentee ballots are from people overseas on vacations, business, school, etc. Hardly anyone uses one within 20 miles from their polling place. FYI: Some states do require a written statement.
Charity Navigator rates the March of Dimes at 2 out of 5 stars, and 1 out of 5 on the financial scale. Their program expenses, administrative expenses, fundraising expenses, and fundraising efficiency are all pretty good. But they basically ran out of money. Liability to assets should be 10% but it is 113%!!! I can't tell what they did wrong, other than paying their CEO a half a million dollars a year. That wouldn't be unreasonable if that CEO brought in millions of more dollars than a CEO who made $100k/year, but clearly something was mismanaged if it got to this point.
Let us define that word "relaxing" before we continue our speculation. From the article:
rule that would instead freeze the standards at their 2020 levels for six years.
So they aren't lowering the standards (yet), they are freezing them at their current levels. So if they can offer more power at the current standards, and they can reprogram the cars to make the trade off, that actually doesn't sound too bad.
Which aspects of fuel efficiency was an executive order to the EPA, and which ones are backed by legislation? Yesterday NPR was talking how Trump will extend the short-term insurance rule 3 months to 3 years. Is that possible because the ACA grants the executive the ability to set the maximum length of a short-term health care plan? It's funny to me what they put in the statutes and what they grant to various committees and offices.
I doubt that any manufacturer would remove fuel efficiency improvements from an existing car model. It's not worth investing R&D time just to make a car worse. The most that could happen is it could slow the pace of fuel efficiency improvements, or maybe result in a few low-end cars that are slightly less efficient.
* until all the major browsers switch to something else, but they'll never agree to that.
They already did! It's called webassembly.:-) There's probably 10 languages that compile down to it now.
I'm being a bit tongue-in-cheek here. It will be a while before developers start switching and we will see what they move to. Probably decades before javascript seriously wanes. It could even get good in the mean time. But the path is open now.
something a lot of nerds are passionate about (movies).
Video games: yeah, but movies? Must not be my circle. I'm thinking that the AC who replied might be right on though: it's a stock market thing. Or maybe the "technology disrupting an industry" angle, although I'm not sure how they are disrupting anyone here. Maybe that is just wishful thinking? Either way, the post rate seems excessive.
Years ago you could disable stories on Slashdot by category, so I could have disabled "Movies" stories. But it looks like that feature has vanished. Oh well.:-(
Why does Slashdot have an article on this app every couple of days?. It's an app for buying movie tickets, who the heck cares? 1 article talking about their horrible security and privacy is enough, I don't need to know every time they add a new feature, every time a competitor makes yet another app like it, and every time the price changes.
I will agree that the first line doesn't work. The rhyme is wrong too. But the rest seems to fit to me. Having listened to a few versions online while composing this, there are plenty of such mispronunciations in the song itself. I kinda find it painful actually, and I may have cut some syllables out of the last few lines because I hate that method of forcing words to fit.
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Interesting. So that brings up some questions: Are the plastics getting into the environment through sewage? What will we do with the filtered plastics?
The survey analysis seems to be written by people who don't understand programming at all. The conclusions are completely idiotic.
First complaint: JavaScript is not a darling language everyone loves. It's the only language that runs on a web browser (*). So stop acting impressed or surprised at it's popularity! Duhhh!
Check out some of these gems:
But enterprise-sized companies are now using multiple languages for their projects. That's new. Historically, larger companies have practiced tighter control over production projects.
Historically, we had the ability to use a single language. But we can't any more, because every project must be JavaScript + something + probably SQL. Yes, the "something" could be JavaScript, but that isn't usually the best choice on the server side. This isn't what we *want* it is what we are stuck with because of the browser. This conclusion would only seem meaningful if you were looking at the statistics over time, but had no idea what you were talking about.
For students and programmers looking for a corporate job, it's clear the older languages are the way to go. The future is in the cloud, but its languages are decades old. At the same time, they'd be wise to pick up containers, cloud, and container manager
I don't even know what this is saying. How can the future be old? Or the cloud, which is new, be using old languages? Then they confuse languages with containers. It almost looks like a Markov generator wrote this paragraph.
the larger the company, the more languages are used.
Wait, you mean having more projects means more languages? Well it cannot possibly mean LESS languages, so this conclusion is completely mindless!
(*) Even if a developer codes in TypeScript, they would still answer "JavaScript" for survey purposes since it is never totally hidden.
You mean the language that's open source, standard, works as a base logic language interpreted within all browsers on planet earth and runs the client side, server side and database all in a singular easy to use syntax is popular?
Unfortunately no, the survey said JavaScript.
How dafriek did this get posted to this thread? *sigh* Too many browser windows open at once...
IBM's Watson had the same advantage on Jeopardy. It was instantly fed the entire question as soon as it was picked, while the humans had to read and/or listen to the question over an analog interface.
(Do the players see the animations the TV audience sees?)
Anecdote: I cannot read text if someone is reading it aloud. Even if I read faster than them, every word they say makes me "snap" back to that word even if I am ahead. Do other people have this issue? If I was on Jeopardy this would alow me down by a few seconds.
Clearly you don't understand the conversation. No one in this thread is arguing that gold farming bots or griefing should be permitted. The argument is that the courts are applying the wrong section of law (copyright, instead of terms-of-service contract violations), and the consequence is that they are taking away legitimate tools from the white hat hacking community and the broader software development community. The courts are broadening copyright to the point where fair use is being eluded. It is affecting young coders, filmmakers, and musicians. If you are interested in this, I recommend reading the EFF's amicus briefs on some of the cases above.
That's what I said.
Let us be clear, it is not a TOS violation against the person who *made* the tool, but for the people *using* the tool. Now, if the person who made it also used it online, then they can get that one person for a TOS violation. But the only likely remedy the court can offer is to disconnect the person's GTA account, which Take Two can already do. So Take Two is going to argue that it is a copyright violation. Their hope will be to make him liable for everyone else's use of the tool. While you and I think this is absurd, Blizzard has succeeded using this exact same argument numerous times.
You should be right, except a combination of the DMCA + EULAs completely reversed all that. You can thank Blizzard over and over again for their part of it:
Blizzard -vs- Glider
Blizzard -vs- Ceiling software
Blizzard again
Blizzard again, this time it's Overwatch
I hate cheaters too. But Blizzard and their lawyers are the biggest cheaters of all. They would happily take away rights from their own families if it meant they could make a buck.
Then the player doing the griefing is violating the terms of service of the online game, not the maker of tool. Online griefing is not within the scope of copyright law. The reality here is that it is easier for Take Two to go after one man that to go after the griefers. As always, one should fix the servers so that the hacks don't work, rather than sue the hacker.
part because the FDA requires each producer to re-test the proven design so much to prove it really is exactly like the already approved one that it's almost as expensive as introducing something new, but with a lot less potential for profit.
As someone who has done this repeatedly, I can tell you that proving equivalency is an order of magnitude cheaper than proving a new design.
I am confused. Google already has a censored search engine for China at http://www.google.cn/ that has been operating for over a decade. What new ethical question is being raised here? Why are these Google employees suddenly upset now but they weren't last week?
Or they need to learn from the music industry and just sell the ROMs. They should have gone to EmuParadise and said "You have 3 months to implement a billing system, pay us $2 per download, and lets make millions together."
Yikes! So does Oregon! And a few others aren't far behind!. Someone needs to teach these people the terms "secret ballot" "voter coercion" and give them a history book.
I am beginning to think that the file permission system used by most desktop OS's is insufficient. It would be awesome if I could install an app onto Windows and know that it can't touch any files outside of it's own installed files, without my permission. So if I install a word processor or a graphics editor, I can be assured that out-of-the-box the only files it needs access to are the ones that I click on in the file-open dialog. That is an OS dialog and my clicking on a file gives consent for the app to access it. So a malicious application can't go browsing for my QuickBooks database and read it.
Require it be post marked from a location not less than 20 miles from your otherwise assigned polling place or accompanied by a written statement on pain of purgery that you were physically unable to travel to the polling place (hospitalized, deployed as a member of the armed forces etc).
Most absentee ballots are from people overseas on vacations, business, school, etc. Hardly anyone uses one within 20 miles from their polling place. FYI: Some states do require a written statement.
Then use the search bar not the URL bar.
How about Typescript? Besides, there is webassembly so really Typescript can just compile down to that.
Charity Navigator rates the March of Dimes at 2 out of 5 stars, and 1 out of 5 on the financial scale.
Their program expenses, administrative expenses, fundraising expenses, and fundraising efficiency are all pretty good. But they basically ran out of money. Liability to assets should be 10% but it is 113%!!! I can't tell what they did wrong, other than paying their CEO a half a million dollars a year. That wouldn't be unreasonable if that CEO brought in millions of more dollars than a CEO who made $100k/year, but clearly something was mismanaged if it got to this point.
relaxing fuel efficiency standards
Let us define that word "relaxing" before we continue our speculation. From the article:
rule that would instead freeze the standards at their 2020 levels for six years.
So they aren't lowering the standards (yet), they are freezing them at their current levels. So if they can offer more power at the current standards, and they can reprogram the cars to make the trade off, that actually doesn't sound too bad.
Which aspects of fuel efficiency was an executive order to the EPA, and which ones are backed by legislation? Yesterday NPR was talking how Trump will extend the short-term insurance rule 3 months to 3 years. Is that possible because the ACA grants the executive the ability to set the maximum length of a short-term health care plan? It's funny to me what they put in the statutes and what they grant to various committees and offices.
I doubt that any manufacturer would remove fuel efficiency improvements from an existing car model. It's not worth investing R&D time just to make a car worse. The most that could happen is it could slow the pace of fuel efficiency improvements, or maybe result in a few low-end cars that are slightly less efficient.
* until all the major browsers switch to something else, but they'll never agree to that.
They already did! It's called webassembly. :-) There's probably 10 languages that compile down to it now.
I'm being a bit tongue-in-cheek here. It will be a while before developers start switching and we will see what they move to. Probably decades before javascript seriously wanes. It could even get good in the mean time. But the path is open now.
something a lot of nerds are passionate about (movies).
Video games: yeah, but movies? Must not be my circle. I'm thinking that the AC who replied might be right on though: it's a stock market thing. Or maybe the "technology disrupting an industry" angle, although I'm not sure how they are disrupting anyone here. Maybe that is just wishful thinking? Either way, the post rate seems excessive.
Years ago you could disable stories on Slashdot by category, so I could have disabled "Movies" stories. But it looks like that feature has vanished. Oh well. :-(
Why does Slashdot have an article on this app every couple of days?. It's an app for buying movie tickets, who the heck cares? 1 article talking about their horrible security and privacy is enough, I don't need to know every time they add a new feature, every time a competitor makes yet another app like it, and every time the price changes.
I will agree that the first line doesn't work. The rhyme is wrong too. But the rest seems to fit to me. Having listened to a few versions online while composing this, there are plenty of such mispronunciations in the song itself. I kinda find it painful actually, and I may have cut some syllables out of the last few lines because I hate that method of forcing words to fit.
I'd love to see a competing version in a reply...