The problem is that the.NET framework or the J2EE class library is not adding 3,000 pages of documented or undocumented features per week, unlike the judicial system. From statutory law at the state level, the federal level, and municipal bylaws to judicial decisions at the local, circuit, and Supreme Court level there's an immense amount of material to wade through.
You have much faith in the development teams of such packages:). Seriously though, I explicitly didn't compare the professions in absolute terms. My point was more that, even if being a lawyer involves knowing a lot of stuff, that's not fundamentally different from other jobs like being a programmer, even if they might differ in scale. Much in the same way that being a physician isn't fundamentally different from being a physiotherapist, they just differ on matters of scale.
However, you seemed to miss one important detail: Just the same as you'll find Java programmers, and.NET programmers, and SAP programmers, you'll find divorce lawyers, IP lawyers, criminal lawyers (aren't they all, though?;), etc. Those aren't so much hard divisions (which is the case for medical specialties) as they denote areas of expertise within a single profession, because of breadth -- Just the same as I'd prefer Johnnie Cochran over NYCL as my murder lawyer, I prefer my operating system kernels written by Linus Torvalds rather than John Carmack.
Well, I hate lawyers more than the next guy but they do more than that. I mean, do you know your state's law code (those books are huge)? Do you know all case histories on a particular subject? Do you have access to every single one of these cases? Do you spend 40+ hours a week reading this stuff? Is being misinformed dangerous when you're talking about the law?
See it this way: how much studying does it take to have a really good grasp of the.NET framework, or the J2EE class library, or whatever other big programming environment you care to mention? A programmer's work is, in its fundamentals, much the same as a lawyer's: spend all week applying researching how to achieve your goals or minimize your losses, writing up your results, and they both heavily favour a mixture of experience (or knowledge) and talent expressing yourself -- be it in code or in speech. Both juries and compilers can be tricked into accepting things that are really really wrong, at times. There's nothing special about a lawyer's work in and of itself, the importance is the subject matter.
Should a lawyer or judge really be held accountable for not taking every average citizen's two cents into account for a case? I think not. I am arguing for the "do nothing, ex parte blogging is fine the way it is" scenario presented in the paper. I am definitely against people being unable to discuss cases and pro-free speech but we are almost always massively uninformed so leave it as nothing more than blogging.
The biggest virtue of this stance (and why I also favour it) is that I'm free to make up my own mind about who to read and who to ignore.
True, and if you're actually infringing for commercial purposes, you're also screwed. I only meant to make a weaker point (saying something's illegal is a strictly weaker statement than saying something's criminal), but you can cross the line into fully qualified criminal behaviour quite easily.
He's absolutely correct, provided we're talking about regular hashes, like md5, sha, etc etc. However, such an approach doesn't even begin to make sense once you consider that, for every song pirated, there are dozens of different rips at different settings, with different encoders, etc, spread around. The RIAA's methods are on of the few real cases where you should "assume malice, rather than stupidity", so I seriously doubt they do things this way.
TFA, in all its incredibly biased glory (Dr Centeno this, Dr Centeno that, FDA is in Big Pharma's pocket, stem cells are a panacea, end of article) only implied that the protocol itself would be treated like a drug (requiring their standard for clinical trials), and disingenuously compares stem cell treatments to fertility treatments. 'cause implanting an embryo in an uterus, essentially mimicking a natural process and with a "safe" mechanism for rejection, is exactly the same as using stem cells to produce stuff that has no clear parallel -- or maybe not.
Besides, we're talking about implanting engineered tissues based on highly plastic and division-propensic cells. Really, it barely requires long-term testing. I mean, what could possibly go wrong?
Why don't they just make an operating system that is nothing more than a browser? No command line, traditional kernel, file system just a browser written in assembly and a SQLite database that stores all the browser settings and maybe a few small files like your credit card details on a small SSD.
Let's see... No traditional kernel, so you'll have to move concurrency support (multiple tabs, right?) and memory management into the browser. You'll rewrite all your screen subsystem to just render HTML/CSS. Replace the file system with an SQL implementation? Microsoft called, they want their WinFS back. Assuming you want this to run in more than one netbook model, you'll still have to plug some sort of drivers into that "browser". All of this done in assembly, so it's not even in the same universe as portability.
While I'm aware that the scale isn't even remotely close to the same, outlawing the pirate party over pirate bay's actions is, conceptually, much the same as what happened with Batasuna in Spain.
Actually, Apple would sooner come up with an Emacs clone, seeing as there are plenty of Emacs shortcuts already in place (go ahead and try emacs-style Select All and Kill Line in Safari's address bar)
The court wants/demands/expects technical terms and ideology laid out in a way than 9 out of 10 people would understand.
When practising your profession, you produce documents in that profession's jargon. As a Judge/Lawyer, your work yields legal jargon. Big surprise. Even if public, they're technical documents aimed at a trained audience. It's expected that a lawyer communicates with the judge in a way that's clear and unambiguous for them, and then the lawyer "translates" the jargon to his client. When something technical is required from another field altogether, someone (like Bruce) is called up to translate the technical stuff for the court, in the same way that it is part of the lawyer's job to make the judicial process understandable for his client. I fail to see the duality of standards.
Yes, the "correct" word for a person who does what they're doing is cracker, not hacker. Usage changes over time, and it's not as though hacker in the classical sense actually existed for that long.
Still, creating and managing a 180k node botnet strikes me more as the work of a hacker than that of a script kiddie, so even if you're right about the incorrect usage, your coat tails comment is really off-base. To ride the coat tails of your metaphor, just because you happen to be stealing a car, that doesn't make hotwiring it (and understanding wtf you're doing) stop counting as hacking.
When I had an OOP course in university, we had a programming project, then a practical test that involved making a number of changes to our project. The changes were quite simple, though, and the test was more of a "did you really participate in the writing on this project enough to know the codebase?" thing.
Sadly, the biggest deterrent of them all -- locking the culprit out of doing business in the European market -- would only tip the scales so far towards AMD that it's not even funny. Which is why even two competitors is not nearly enough for a healthy market.
At the end of the day, if you do not want to get fined for this crap, either do not do it, or do not be the market leader.
It's not even about being the market leader. It's about being dominant. For example, you can be the market leader in a segment of the automotive industry, or toilet paper, or the detergent industry, or but that means jack diddly squat, because there are enough competitors in any of those markets that the market leader still won't have enough clout to pull off most of these stunts.
I wouldn't concern myself with how this replaces the keyboard. In practical terms, it won't, any more than the mouse did. But a good controller scheme for 3D space is practical, and a gesture system is more or less necessary to make it all work.
What's the resolution you run that 19" screen at? Personally I play on a 22" screen (1680x1050), and I find that much depends on the game I'm playing. Unlike you, I find that WoW does really gain a fair bit by having some AA on, because the slightly cartoonish graphics with very high color contrast really makes the jaggies pop out. I was playing Bioshock the other day, and couldn't really notice that many artifacts, simply because the game is overall darker, so the jaggies get lost in the shadows a bit.
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Education for hedonism is called "education for its own reward". Think about it.
The problem is that the .NET framework or the J2EE class library is not adding 3,000 pages of documented or undocumented features per week, unlike the judicial system. From statutory law at the state level, the federal level, and municipal bylaws to judicial decisions at the local, circuit, and Supreme Court level there's an immense amount of material to wade through.
You have much faith in the development teams of such packages :). Seriously though, I explicitly didn't compare the professions in absolute terms. My point was more that, even if being a lawyer involves knowing a lot of stuff, that's not fundamentally different from other jobs like being a programmer, even if they might differ in scale. Much in the same way that being a physician isn't fundamentally different from being a physiotherapist, they just differ on matters of scale.
However, you seemed to miss one important detail: Just the same as you'll find Java programmers, and .NET programmers, and SAP programmers, you'll find divorce lawyers, IP lawyers, criminal lawyers (aren't they all, though? ;), etc. Those aren't so much hard divisions (which is the case for medical specialties) as they denote areas of expertise within a single profession, because of breadth -- Just the same as I'd prefer Johnnie Cochran over NYCL as my murder lawyer, I prefer my operating system kernels written by Linus Torvalds rather than John Carmack.
Well, I hate lawyers more than the next guy but they do more than that. I mean, do you know your state's law code (those books are huge)? Do you know all case histories on a particular subject? Do you have access to every single one of these cases? Do you spend 40+ hours a week reading this stuff? Is being misinformed dangerous when you're talking about the law?
See it this way: how much studying does it take to have a really good grasp of the .NET framework, or the J2EE class library, or whatever other big programming environment you care to mention? A programmer's work is, in its fundamentals, much the same as a lawyer's: spend all week applying researching how to achieve your goals or minimize your losses, writing up your results, and they both heavily favour a mixture of experience (or knowledge) and talent expressing yourself -- be it in code or in speech. Both juries and compilers can be tricked into accepting things that are really really wrong, at times. There's nothing special about a lawyer's work in and of itself, the importance is the subject matter.
Should a lawyer or judge really be held accountable for not taking every average citizen's two cents into account for a case? I think not. I am arguing for the "do nothing, ex parte blogging is fine the way it is" scenario presented in the paper. I am definitely against people being unable to discuss cases and pro-free speech but we are almost always massively uninformed so leave it as nothing more than blogging.
The biggest virtue of this stance (and why I also favour it) is that I'm free to make up my own mind about who to read and who to ignore.
If the picture is to scale(...)
No need to guess, TFA actually states that the size of the body is about 6 cm (sans legs).
Ask the misguided minds behind Aero Glass.
This is something I find hilarious, actually. You look at the low end, and Apple has plain white plastic chassis, whereas several (if not most) brands will sell you a plastic chassis painted to look like metal. Which one strikes you as more style conscious?
As soon as you step into the higher end, if we're to believe the "Apple is all about style" crowd, this laptop's design is purely utilitarian, whereas this one is all about looking flashy. And I'm not even going to start a rant about the Dell Adamo. Leather? Really?
(Full disclaimer: I am an Apple user, but I also rather like the nice, simple lines of the Thinkpads. I don't like excessive flashiness.)
The printer needs vector objects such as fonts to be rasterized at some point, and I don't think the Window Manager is involved in that.
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True, and if you're actually infringing for commercial purposes, you're also screwed. I only meant to make a weaker point (saying something's illegal is a strictly weaker statement than saying something's criminal), but you can cross the line into fully qualified criminal behaviour quite easily.
He's absolutely correct, provided we're talking about regular hashes, like md5, sha, etc etc. However, such an approach doesn't even begin to make sense once you consider that, for every song pirated, there are dozens of different rips at different settings, with different encoders, etc, spread around. The RIAA's methods are on of the few real cases where you should "assume malice, rather than stupidity", so I seriously doubt they do things this way.
It's illegal because it's against the law. What it isn't is criminal.
TFA, in all its incredibly biased glory (Dr Centeno this, Dr Centeno that, FDA is in Big Pharma's pocket, stem cells are a panacea, end of article) only implied that the protocol itself would be treated like a drug (requiring their standard for clinical trials), and disingenuously compares stem cell treatments to fertility treatments. 'cause implanting an embryo in an uterus, essentially mimicking a natural process and with a "safe" mechanism for rejection, is exactly the same as using stem cells to produce stuff that has no clear parallel -- or maybe not.
Besides, we're talking about implanting engineered tissues based on highly plastic and division-propensic cells. Really, it barely requires long-term testing. I mean, what could possibly go wrong?
Did anyone else read "both of those viable options" as being the dog food and glue?
Why don't they just make an operating system that is nothing more than a browser? No command line, traditional kernel, file system just a browser written in assembly and a SQLite database that stores all the browser settings and maybe a few small files like your credit card details on a small SSD.
Let's see... No traditional kernel, so you'll have to move concurrency support (multiple tabs, right?) and memory management into the browser. You'll rewrite all your screen subsystem to just render HTML/CSS. Replace the file system with an SQL implementation? Microsoft called, they want their WinFS back. Assuming you want this to run in more than one netbook model, you'll still have to plug some sort of drivers into that "browser". All of this done in assembly, so it's not even in the same universe as portability.
Have you ever written a single line of code?
Seems the pigs took a trip to the airport, but then failed to achieve take off
While I'm aware that the scale isn't even remotely close to the same, outlawing the pirate party over pirate bay's actions is, conceptually, much the same as what happened with Batasuna in Spain.
Actually, Apple would sooner come up with an Emacs clone, seeing as there are plenty of Emacs shortcuts already in place (go ahead and try emacs-style Select All and Kill Line in Safari's address bar)
The court wants/demands/expects technical terms and ideology laid out in a way than 9 out of 10 people would understand.
When practising your profession, you produce documents in that profession's jargon. As a Judge/Lawyer, your work yields legal jargon. Big surprise. Even if public, they're technical documents aimed at a trained audience. It's expected that a lawyer communicates with the judge in a way that's clear and unambiguous for them, and then the lawyer "translates" the jargon to his client. When something technical is required from another field altogether, someone (like Bruce) is called up to translate the technical stuff for the court, in the same way that it is part of the lawyer's job to make the judicial process understandable for his client. I fail to see the duality of standards.
Ok, I'll bite.
Yes, the "correct" word for a person who does what they're doing is cracker, not hacker. Usage changes over time, and it's not as though hacker in the classical sense actually existed for that long.
Still, creating and managing a 180k node botnet strikes me more as the work of a hacker than that of a script kiddie, so even if you're right about the incorrect usage, your coat tails comment is really off-base. To ride the coat tails of your metaphor, just because you happen to be stealing a car, that doesn't make hotwiring it (and understanding wtf you're doing) stop counting as hacking.
When I had an OOP course in university, we had a programming project, then a practical test that involved making a number of changes to our project. The changes were quite simple, though, and the test was more of a "did you really participate in the writing on this project enough to know the codebase?" thing.
Split infinitives and ending sentences in prepositions may be crimes in Latin but are perfectly fine in English.
"This is the sort of English up with which I will not put"
Sadly, the biggest deterrent of them all -- locking the culprit out of doing business in the European market -- would only tip the scales so far towards AMD that it's not even funny. Which is why even two competitors is not nearly enough for a healthy market.
At the end of the day, if you do not want to get fined for this crap, either do not do it, or do not be the market leader.
It's not even about being the market leader. It's about being dominant. For example, you can be the market leader in a segment of the automotive industry, or toilet paper, or the detergent industry, or but that means jack diddly squat, because there are enough competitors in any of those markets that the market leader still won't have enough clout to pull off most of these stunts.
If midori was a bleeding edge version, it's not surprising: it's a webkit-based browser, and webkit is what's scoring highest anyway.
Linux device drivers are written in C, and one mistake can either crash your system or allow it to be exploited.
I thought we were talking about microkernel designs which typically entail userspace drivers.
I wouldn't concern myself with how this replaces the keyboard. In practical terms, it won't, any more than the mouse did. But a good controller scheme for 3D space is practical, and a gesture system is more or less necessary to make it all work.
What's the resolution you run that 19" screen at? Personally I play on a 22" screen (1680x1050), and I find that much depends on the game I'm playing. Unlike you, I find that WoW does really gain a fair bit by having some AA on, because the slightly cartoonish graphics with very high color contrast really makes the jaggies pop out. I was playing Bioshock the other day, and couldn't really notice that many artifacts, simply because the game is overall darker, so the jaggies get lost in the shadows a bit.