you obviously don't know what you are talking about. there are many cases where this is true, but it is not always. for a lawyer, this is true. a lawyer's job is to win, not to question his or her client. for a judge, this is not. a judge needs evidence to be provided to him or her both to persuade him or her as well as to base his or her written decision on. a jury is given even more leeway because a jury does not have to write as formal a declaration of reasons.
If the MPAA follows that strategy, and it can be shown that they are doing so, it is far from legal. The legal term is "barratry," and it is illegal under the RICO act. An easy counter-claim could be made for barratry. Possibly even a class-action lawsuit, if the precedant was set. Also, note that, since the precedent would have been set by this case, such a long trial would not be necessary. A novice lawyer, or even just a person who has basic knowledge of the legal system, could make claims based on the precedent and barratry. If the person did this on their own, they would only lose the hours spent sitting in court.
Google is certainly not without its philanthropist activities!! Ever heard of Summer of Code? I have two friends that went there, and it was far from inexpensive for Google to pay for that. Those students learned quite a lot and had the "time of their lives." If preparing aspiring and hard-working young men for the rigors of an industry is not considered philanthropy, then I don't know what is!!
As for Red Hat, they're not exactly rich. I won't say their poor -- they're definitely well off. However, they do not have the resources to spend huge amounts of money on charities.
Steve Jobs -- I have to disagree here too. Apple donates a LOT of money to education in the form of discounts, free computers and software, grants, scholarships, invitations to events (such as WWDC), and educational competitions. My last school received a grant of more than $150,000 for computers and other hardware, not all of which was made by Apple (there was a mixture of macs and x86 linux computers). Also, my local library received 5-10 computers for free. I think Apple has proven to be a good community player as well.
Other companies, such as IBM, Cisco, Oracle, and GE all donate large amounts of money to charity.
It is important to note that these companies have done these things for years, without any need to improve their image or impress the public in any way, unlike Microsoft, which is often disliked.
Not true. MacOS X can use any of the following to decide how to open a file: Extension MIME Type Creator An option to store in the metadata a default program to open that specific file with.
Any of those will work, not just extensions. If you open a file in "vi", write a little to it, save it to the desktop without an extension, quit "vi", and double-click on the file, it will automatically open in "TextEdit.app".
I looked into it a bit. It seems as though Ruby is sortof a new and emerging language with a very small community. What I am looking for is a good language to start with that has a decent community and is rather well-known so that I can ask questions and not have to search hard for my answers. Python, as I have often heard, is a good option for this.
I'm a high school student in a small boarding school. They don't offer any courses in computer science at my school. I want to learn a programming language, but I have no clue where to start. In my old school, we had toyed around with NetLogo, Scheme, and Python. We only got a small amount of each.
Also, in my space time, I have done a lot of fooling around with BASH scripting. I believe I have gotten pretty good with this.
Anyway, I have no real foundation in any formal languages, and I wanted to get started (even if you all think I should start with something a little more basic than C, C++, C#, or Java).
So, what does everyone recommend as a FIRST (at least, formal) language? Also, can any of you recommend any really good books? PS: If you don't know what you're talking about, please don't speak. I'd rather not get confused.
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For a Bachelors degree in CS or Engineering, would you recommend a BS or a BA?
you obviously don't know what you are talking about. there are many cases where this is true, but it is not always.
for a lawyer, this is true. a lawyer's job is to win, not to question his or her client.
for a judge, this is not. a judge needs evidence to be provided to him or her both to persuade him or her as well as to base his or her written decision on.
a jury is given even more leeway because a jury does not have to write as formal a declaration of reasons.
~Matt
If the MPAA follows that strategy, and it can be shown that they are doing so, it is far from legal.
The legal term is "barratry," and it is illegal under the RICO act. An easy counter-claim could be made for barratry. Possibly even a class-action lawsuit, if the precedant was set.
Also, note that, since the precedent would have been set by this case, such a long trial would not be necessary. A novice lawyer, or even just a person who has basic knowledge of the legal system, could make claims based on the precedent and barratry. If the person did this on their own, they would only lose the hours spent sitting in court.
~Matt
Payment of legal costs is different in every state.
Google is certainly not without its philanthropist activities!! Ever heard of Summer of Code? I have two friends that went there, and it was far from inexpensive for Google to pay for that. Those students learned quite a lot and had the "time of their lives." If preparing aspiring and hard-working young men for the rigors of an industry is not considered philanthropy, then I don't know what is!!
As for Red Hat, they're not exactly rich. I won't say their poor -- they're definitely well off. However, they do not have the resources to spend huge amounts of money on charities.
Steve Jobs -- I have to disagree here too. Apple donates a LOT of money to education in the form of discounts, free computers and software, grants, scholarships, invitations to events (such as WWDC), and educational competitions. My last school received a grant of more than $150,000 for computers and other hardware, not all of which was made by Apple (there was a mixture of macs and x86 linux computers). Also, my local library received 5-10 computers for free. I think Apple has proven to be a good community player as well.
Other companies, such as IBM, Cisco, Oracle, and GE all donate large amounts of money to charity.
It is important to note that these companies have done these things for years, without any need to improve their image or impress the public in any way, unlike Microsoft, which is often disliked.
~Matt
Not true. MacOS X can use any of the following to decide how to open a file:
Extension
MIME Type
Creator
An option to store in the metadata a default program to open that specific file with.
Any of those will work, not just extensions. If you open a file in "vi", write a little to it, save it to the desktop without an extension, quit "vi", and double-click on the file, it will automatically open in "TextEdit.app".
So where is the actual site?
Does anyone have a link?
I looked into it a bit. It seems as though Ruby is sortof a new and emerging language with a very small community. What I am looking for is a good language to start with that has a decent community and is rather well-known so that I can ask questions and not have to search hard for my answers.
Python, as I have often heard, is a good option for this.
I'm a high school student in a small boarding school. They don't offer any courses in computer science at my school.
I want to learn a programming language, but I have no clue where to start.
In my old school, we had toyed around with NetLogo, Scheme, and Python. We only got a small amount of each.
Also, in my space time, I have done a lot of fooling around with BASH scripting. I believe I have gotten pretty good with this.
Anyway, I have no real foundation in any formal languages, and I wanted to get started (even if you all think I should start with something a little more basic than C, C++, C#, or Java).
So, what does everyone recommend as a FIRST (at least, formal) language? Also, can any of you recommend any really good books?
PS: If you don't know what you're talking about, please don't speak. I'd rather not get confused.
Can I get an invite? My e-mail address is mathbymath@aol.com . PLEASE ??? :) :) :) :)