Thing is, these are really hard problem to solve, since they are essentially all about moral values, which are always subjective in nature. The technical bit is just about the least significant; you could probably make a really accurate dog vs. human detector, but -like all software- it won't ever be 100% free of bugs. This is why lawyers keep bringing up the problem of who is responsible in a self-driving car.
How about choosing whether to run over a toddler or a baby? You really can't blame cars for not being able to make value judgements like that as no sane human could.
No it is NOT a selling point, because NO ONE is selling these cars yet.
You may not be able to buy them yet, but they're certainly already selling you on the concept of it. The fact that we're talking about it here demonstrates that the marketing department for these cars is already in full swing.
This. I do both open source and some small commercial software on the side. I always make sure my contract includes terms that allow me to continue doing that as long as it doesn't compete with my employer. Despite some of the feelings here, employers are generally nice people like other humans.
"Fair" is just a matter of asking the employer. If they say yes, then selling the code is okay, if they say no, it isn't. It's that simple. If you don't want to ask, consider a "no" by default, because that's probably what your contract says.
Because not all websites are personal blogs. The modern web is a dynamic and interactive thing. Imagine how badly even something as trivial as a webbased game could be backed up as a static backup.
Not quite the point you're trying to make here, but why not just print out the website and patent it? Doesn't need to be an invention or novel or anything; modern patent offices will rubberstamp anything, and it'll be available for atleast several decades after you die or until Disney goes bankrupt and can't bribe politicians for extensions any more.
Or maybe they're simply aware of what is ugly and what is not.
I develop PHP for a living and a while back I encountered a styleguide which said you should give function arguments. Code like 'function f($a, $a, $a) actually works in PHP. This in itself this as insane enough, but... some developers are retarded enough to require a styleguide to tell them not to do that. You think any of those developers will be able to tell the difference between an ugly hack and good, clean code?
My guess is that most of this is just down to C developers generally having a better understanding of what is and is not ugly code.
No offense to the awesomeness that is Hubble, but isn't it logical for it to break distance records on a regular basis as more "old" light reaches it simply as a function of time?
These IP trolls usually calculate how much it would cost for their victims to fight the patent, win or lose, then make a settlement offer slightly below that.
IMHO, the patent system isn't flawed, it's the lackluster way patent offices grant new patents. They should be held accountable for bad patents.
Grooveshark let users to listen to the music the users payed for. When you pay for music, you neither own the music, the media, the files or even the right to listen to it where you want. You should have known it was too good to be true.
As noted by others (just copying the link); https://support.apple.com/en-u... Just a case of uninformed, self-entitled hipsters (is there any other kind of hipster?).
Just watched the promo video. It looks f**king awesome!
Away with consumption (according to the video; writing HTML) and towards creating (according to the video; drawing a smiley face)!
The "drawing mustaches on marsupials" feating is the killer feature of a new generation of browsers. Can your Chrome or Firefix draw mustaches on marsupials? Does it even HAVE mustaches? Do you want to be a slave to consumption? Making webpages? While you can be the god of your own highlighted-random-text creations?
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Serves you right for deliberately making incompatible apps. .NET existed.
The world has known about the evil of IE-only apps well before
Thing is, these are really hard problem to solve, since they are essentially all about moral values, which are always subjective in nature.
The technical bit is just about the least significant; you could probably make a really accurate dog vs. human detector, but -like all software- it won't ever be 100% free of bugs.
This is why lawyers keep bringing up the problem of who is responsible in a self-driving car.
If you can legally get content for free, you'd be stupid to pay.
If you can't, you'd be a asshole to take it for free anyway.
It also means that the cars aren't driving autonomously at all times.
To me this implies that there simply isn't any comparable data yet.
How about choosing whether to run over a toddler or a baby?
You really can't blame cars for not being able to make value judgements like that as no sane human could.
No it is NOT a selling point, because NO ONE is selling these cars yet.
You may not be able to buy them yet, but they're certainly already selling you on the concept of it.
The fact that we're talking about it here demonstrates that the marketing department for these cars is already in full swing.
This. I do both open source and some small commercial software on the side. I always make sure my contract includes terms that allow me to continue doing that as long as it doesn't compete with my employer. Despite some of the feelings here, employers are generally nice people like other humans.
"Fair" is just a matter of asking the employer. If they say yes, then selling the code is okay, if they say no, it isn't. It's that simple.
If you don't want to ask, consider a "no" by default, because that's probably what your contract says.
Because not all websites are personal blogs. The modern web is a dynamic and interactive thing.
Imagine how badly even something as trivial as a webbased game could be backed up as a static backup.
Not quite the point you're trying to make here, but why not just print out the website and patent it?
Doesn't need to be an invention or novel or anything; modern patent offices will rubberstamp anything, and it'll be available for atleast several decades after you die or until Disney goes bankrupt and can't bribe politicians for extensions any more.
The return of WAP sites.
Are any of them still around?
Why do sororities even exist?
They seem like an utterly retarded idea.
https://github.com/search?utf8...
Javascript wins.
PHP developers prefer murdering kittens: https://github.com/search?utf8...
Some other fun facts:
C developers are most ashamed of their code: https://github.com/search?utf8...
PHP coder don't fix bugs: https://github.com/search?utf8...
C developers' code actually get worse as it ages: https://github.com/search?utf8...
Java developers seem to have the most trouble getting their code to work: https://github.com/search?utf8...
Not surprising: https://github.com/search?utf8...
Disclaimer; not corrected for any type of bias or error, of which there are many.
Or maybe they're simply aware of what is ugly and what is not.
I develop PHP for a living and a while back I encountered a styleguide which said you should give function arguments. Code like 'function f($a, $a, $a) actually works in PHP. This in itself this as insane enough, but... some developers are retarded enough to require a styleguide to tell them not to do that. You think any of those developers will be able to tell the difference between an ugly hack and good, clean code?
My guess is that most of this is just down to C developers generally having a better understanding of what is and is not ugly code.
Achieving 99.99% bug-free is infinitely more expensive than just 99.98%.
No offense to the awesomeness that is Hubble, but isn't it logical for it to break distance records on a regular basis as more "old" light reaches it simply as a function of time?
Despite of the Charlie Hebdo massacre, the French legislature has voted 438 to 86 in favor of the "Intelligence Service Bill"
Yes there is, if you're EXACTLY 49 years old.
While an undeniably praise-worthy venture, it came in for criticism [...]
I don't think "undeniably" means what you think it means.
These IP trolls usually calculate how much it would cost for their victims to fight the patent, win or lose, then make a settlement offer slightly below that.
IMHO, the patent system isn't flawed, it's the lackluster way patent offices grant new patents.
They should be held accountable for bad patents.
Grooveshark let users to listen to the music the users payed for.
When you pay for music, you neither own the music, the media, the files or even the right to listen to it where you want.
You should have known it was too good to be true.
As noted by others (just copying the link);
https://support.apple.com/en-u...
Just a case of uninformed, self-entitled hipsters (is there any other kind of hipster?).
This.
"Free market" means no copyrights and patents too.
Free?
Free as in beer?
Free as in speech?
Free as in a kick in the nuts?
It's not just the best things in live that are free.
The worst things in live are free too.
Just watched the promo video. It looks f**king awesome!
Away with consumption (according to the video; writing HTML) and towards creating (according to the video; drawing a smiley face)!
The "drawing mustaches on marsupials" feating is the killer feature of a new generation of browsers.
Can your Chrome or Firefix draw mustaches on marsupials? Does it even HAVE mustaches?
Do you want to be a slave to consumption? Making webpages? While you can be the god of your own highlighted-random-text creations?