Thanks, that's pretty much exactly what I meant. Plus:
1) "We added 200 new keywords to the language which will nameclash with your code".
2) "We added 400 new classes to the library which will nameclash with your code".
3) "That function/class no longer does what it used to do".
4) "That function/class is no longer available".
5) "That function/class has been replaced by X".
6) "That function/class has been renamed to X".
7) "That function/class now takes a different number of parameters".
8) "That function/class is no longer compatible with that other function/class".
9) "We changed that parameter datatype to X".
10) "The new tool won't import your projects properly, so you have to recreate them from scratch (with absolute pathnames) (tied to the user login who created them) (and cryptically stored in the registry) (and you can't run the old tool to see what it looked like)".
11) "You can only do that with our new brain-dead wizard".
12) "The tool is smarter than you are, do it the tools way".
Because they don't want to suddenly have a broken codebase and have to re-write the entire app when the next version of.NET and its development tools come out?
You're confusing petty corruption by local individuals as income enhancement in depressed economies and the grand idealogical corruption of the entire lawmaking process to which the GP was referring.
>...Bill Gates just (apparently) getting sick of the day to day...
Naaah. Gates just turned fifty and he's starting to feel his mortality. He's working on his historical legacy, a la John D. Rockefeller. Meanwhile, Balmer (who also just turned fifty) has no historical legacy outside Microsoft, so expect him to stay.
As a UNIX admin, I was saddled with one of these kinds of things years ago, a DEC-BASIC to C compiler for UNIX. The output code quality was incredibly bad: machine generated variable and function names, bizarro nested struct/union/struct data structures, 400-line functions peppered with calls to 1-line functions. Completely unreadable. Thank $DEITY that project died quickly.
James Boyle is William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law at Duke Law School, co-founder of the Center for the Study of the Public Domain and the author of "A Manifesto on WIPO". His most recent work is Bound By Law, a "graphic novel" on the effects of intellectual property on documentary film.
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BWA HA HAHA
It's on the Inquirer, but they have a picture. Who do I believe, my eyes or my head?
Thanks, that's pretty much exactly what I meant. Plus:
1) "We added 200 new keywords to the language which will nameclash with your code".
2) "We added 400 new classes to the library which will nameclash with your code".
3) "That function/class no longer does what it used to do".
4) "That function/class is no longer available".
5) "That function/class has been replaced by X".
6) "That function/class has been renamed to X".
7) "That function/class now takes a different number of parameters".
8) "That function/class is no longer compatible with that other function/class".
9) "We changed that parameter datatype to X".
10) "The new tool won't import your projects properly, so you have to recreate them from scratch (with absolute pathnames) (tied to the user login who created them) (and cryptically stored in the registry) (and you can't run the old tool to see what it looked like)".
11) "You can only do that with our new brain-dead wizard".
12) "The tool is smarter than you are, do it the tools way".
They've been doing this crap since the early 80s.
Yeah, I can see that dialog box now:
"This website wants to take advantage of an unpatched buffer overflow in the browser itself, an Active-X component, or an underlying DLL. Is that OK?"
Because they don't want to suddenly have a broken codebase and have to re-write the entire app when the next version of .NET and its development tools come out?
Why is the first (top) choice on right-click-on-a-link "open" - if I wanted to do that I'd left click?
> However, I know many business people that prefer to talk rather than write
You misspelled "think".
The "Far Side" cartoon where the guy is wearing the Dog Translation Helmet, and all the dogs are saying "Hey!" "Hey!" "Hey!".
RESISTANCE IS FUTILE.
But you already knew that.
> Why do breast implants have to be faster?
So we can build a Beowulf clusters of breast implants!
You're used to waiting for Windows to shut down, which is enough time to play Beethoven's Fifth Symphony.
They could've saved time and simply set fire to their server themselves.
You're confusing petty corruption by local individuals as income enhancement in depressed economies and the grand idealogical corruption of the entire lawmaking process to which the GP was referring.
> ...Bill Gates just (apparently) getting sick of the day to day...
Naaah. Gates just turned fifty and he's starting to feel his mortality. He's working on his historical legacy, a la John D. Rockefeller. Meanwhile, Balmer (who also just turned fifty) has no historical legacy outside Microsoft, so expect him to stay.
As a UNIX admin, I was saddled with one of these kinds of things years ago, a DEC-BASIC to C compiler for UNIX. The output code quality was incredibly bad: machine generated variable and function names, bizarro nested struct/union/struct data structures, 400-line functions peppered with calls to 1-line functions. Completely unreadable. Thank $DEITY that project died quickly.
> Hawking is an American.
Um, no. He's British. Born, raised and lives there. See here
Come to one of my code reviews.
And the sad thing is, you've probably got alias cp='cp -p' somewhere in your environment and aren't even aware of it.
That's /.ers, not ./ers, n00b!
We'll just order it from your kickback link. No reason you shouldn't make a buck off it, too. Thanks AC!
What was "computationally impractical" in 1980 is no longer so.
Black and white.
...as early approaches infinity.
Dear Rest of World,
Be careful we don't liberate you, too.
Yours Sincerely,
The US Government
From TFA:
James Boyle is William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law at Duke Law School, co-founder of the Center for the Study of the Public Domain and the author of "A Manifesto on WIPO". His most recent work is Bound By Law, a "graphic novel" on the effects of intellectual property on documentary film.
Sounds reliable to me.