Well, I'd call it convenience instead of opinion. If you find a proof that works when 1 isn't prime, would you really start over to find a proof that works regardless, or would you just publish and call it a day? Or vice versa.
I don't know if it's possible that something that can be proven one way can't be proven the other way, but I'm sure there's a proof for that.
Don't get me wrong, copyright infringement is unlawful, and rightly so (within reason). But claiming that copying a piece of software impedes some sort of cost to the maker of that software is hard to argue. Even when everybody pirates, the problem would be elsewhere. E.g. the set price of the software, its availability, the company's public image, etc. So even then, it would come down to a miscalculation by the company's number crunchers.
Saying people pirate merely out of spite or because they lack any feeling of morality is too simple, imho.
So you're saying because the suits based their calculations on erroneous data, by not taking into account the people that rather make the extra effort to avoid paying the USD 2.10, there is extra cost that those people are to be blamed for?
Sounds like virtual money to me, and also the suit's fault.
How's "theft" and "stealing" technically correct? They're using your service without your consent, which is against the law. But to claim they took something material from you really is stretching it.
When someone's talking about applying a tool to solve a problem, as opposed to coming up with new ways to solve problems, she's not talking about computer _science_. It's closer to carpentry or, depending on the scale, engineering.
A movement calling for the abolishment of nuclear weapons is of course to be expected in a nation that has been hit by such weapons. But such a movement does not necessarily have a problem with civil use of nuclear energy.
The Wikipedia article is lacking in detail concerning those cancellations, but it does say:
Through the same time period there were also some new plants connected to the grid, and as of 2007, construction is in progress on several other plants. Japan has thus yet to see a complete break in the construction of new nuclear plants, which has happened in the United States and France.
According to that source, the anti (civil use of) nuclear movement is by no means strong enough to prevent new plants, and those plants that were canceled cannot be fully attributed to the movement.
The point is not valid because the Japanese supported nuclear energy, building a new reactor, if affordable to the state, would have been politically supported. There was no anti nuke hysteria, the reactor's modernization was prevented by other factors. Blaming the green movement thus has no supporting evidence.
And no, I don't need evidence to disprove a claim that is based on false premises.
You should be aware that the anti nuclear movement in Japan wasn't what you're used to in the west. Society knowingly took the risk because they did not see an alternative given their space challenged island nation. So, not only is your argument invalid, you're disproved entirely.
Everything related to nuclear power makes people resort to ad hominem, preventing sensible discussion. The tsunami and the earthquake caused a lot of destruction, if it was more than the worst possible nuclear event could cause is not decided and hopefully will not be shown.
The difference is that both natural disasters were just that, natural. Outside of people's control. A meltdown in a facility which lifetime was just extended is a whole other thing, it's man made and people will naturally want to reevaluate the decisions that led up to the incident. That is a good thing. And of course they start with the decision to build nuclear power plants in the first place.
I hate to be Captain Hindsight, but the reactors could not withstand a natural catastrophe that was not unheard of in Japan. That means that reactors build elsewhere might also not be able to withstand the worst possible event in their respective local area.
How, exactly, would that calm anyone? Just the opposite, it shows that a highly developed nation cannot prevent the worst case scenario even though they are fully aware of the impending meltdown. If they can't do it, what chance does, for example, China have?
That wasn't always the case. At Chernobyl, people were remarkably oblivious to the dangers of radiation and did some in hindsight incredibly stupid things. And that's a good thing, because their drive for self preservation would likely have prevented them to do what was necessary and a much worse second explosion would not have prevented. As an European, I'm grateful for those people's self sacrifice.
Nowadays, people are fully, maybe overly aware of the dangers of nuclear radiation. There won't be enough people willing to sacrifice themselves to prevent an worse outcome of a possible meltdown.
Nobody's claiming the situation isn't already extremely bad. But a meltdown would still make it so much worse - it is not within the capacity of the world's economy to clean up the fallout of such an event, and Japan sure can't afford to have a large part of its land be useless wasteland.
Yes, people are misusing that event to further their own anti nuclear agenda. Distasteful, definitely, but that doesn't mean that the news' focus on the situation is out of proportion.
Microsoft never had a positive image?
In these circles, perhaps. But the world is larger than that, and the opinion of a few geeks, even of a hundred thousand geeks, doesn't carry as much weight as aforementioned geeks like to think.
That'is not limited to geeks, probably every self contained social group over exaggerates its effect on society.
Interesting. My next guess then would be that the extra MIDI data the game requires can be safely ignored by sequencers.
Do you think pro mode will be different with that guitar than it is now? Because the way it is now, I don't see much room for that kind of thing. But of course, we'll just have to wait and see.
Wow. You sure are a malware magnet. Luckily it seems to fit your hobby.
Please be aware not everyone gets attacked as much as you do and the kind of organization you wield to protect yourself would be overkill for most people.
I thinks it's sadder when an ATM runs XP. Those things handle sensitive data and should be kept as simple as possible, as more code always implies more bugs, no matter who's code it is.
An ATM running DOS would generally feel more trustworthy to me than one running XP.
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Well, I'd call it convenience instead of opinion. If you find a proof that works when 1 isn't prime, would you really start over to find a proof that works regardless, or would you just publish and call it a day? Or vice versa.
I don't know if it's possible that something that can be proven one way can't be proven the other way, but I'm sure there's a proof for that.
Don't get me wrong, copyright infringement is unlawful, and rightly so (within reason). But claiming that copying a piece of software impedes some sort of cost to the maker of that software is hard to argue. Even when everybody pirates, the problem would be elsewhere. E.g. the set price of the software, its availability, the company's public image, etc. So even then, it would come down to a miscalculation by the company's number crunchers.
Saying people pirate merely out of spite or because they lack any feeling of morality is too simple, imho.
So you're saying because the suits based their calculations on erroneous data, by not taking into account the people that rather make the extra effort to avoid paying the USD 2.10, there is extra cost that those people are to be blamed for?
Sounds like virtual money to me, and also the suit's fault.
How's "theft" and "stealing" technically correct? They're using your service without your consent, which is against the law. But to claim they took something material from you really is stretching it.
When someone's talking about applying a tool to solve a problem, as opposed to coming up with new ways to solve problems, she's not talking about computer _science_. It's closer to carpentry or, depending on the scale, engineering.
If you are going into a programming course in univ you probably already know at least the basics of programming.
You'd be surprised. But that is not a bad thing. Ideally, CS should be to programming as physics is to engineering. It's called a science after all.
Why the warning? People need to be educated about clicking shortened urls, and it could be worse than goatse..
A movement calling for the abolishment of nuclear weapons is of course to be expected in a nation that has been hit by such weapons. But such a movement does not necessarily have a problem with civil use of nuclear energy.
The Wikipedia article is lacking in detail concerning those cancellations, but it does say:
Through the same time period there were also some new plants connected to the grid, and as of 2007, construction is in progress on several other plants. Japan has thus yet to see a complete break in the construction of new nuclear plants, which has happened in the United States and France.
According to that source, the anti (civil use of) nuclear movement is by no means strong enough to prevent new plants, and those plants that were canceled cannot be fully attributed to the movement.
The point is not valid because the Japanese supported nuclear energy, building a new reactor, if affordable to the state, would have been politically supported. There was no anti nuke hysteria, the reactor's modernization was prevented by other factors. Blaming the green movement thus has no supporting evidence.
And no, I don't need evidence to disprove a claim that is based on false premises.
If you can call abandoning the area "cleaned up", sure. Shame the Japanese don't really have the land to spare.
You should be aware that the anti nuclear movement in Japan wasn't what you're used to in the west. Society knowingly took the risk because they did not see an alternative given their space challenged island nation. So, not only is your argument invalid, you're disproved entirely.
the scientific and engineering ignorance
, it's also their elitism, often shown in this discussion.
Everything related to nuclear power makes people resort to ad hominem, preventing sensible discussion. The tsunami and the earthquake caused a lot of destruction, if it was more than the worst possible nuclear event could cause is not decided and hopefully will not be shown.
The difference is that both natural disasters were just that, natural. Outside of people's control. A meltdown in a facility which lifetime was just extended is a whole other thing, it's man made and people will naturally want to reevaluate the decisions that led up to the incident. That is a good thing. And of course they start with the decision to build nuclear power plants in the first place.
I hate to be Captain Hindsight, but the reactors could not withstand a natural catastrophe that was not unheard of in Japan. That means that reactors build elsewhere might also not be able to withstand the worst possible event in their respective local area.
How, exactly, would that calm anyone? Just the opposite, it shows that a highly developed nation cannot prevent the worst case scenario even though they are fully aware of the impending meltdown. If they can't do it, what chance does, for example, China have?
That wasn't always the case. At Chernobyl, people were remarkably oblivious to the dangers of radiation and did some in hindsight incredibly stupid things. And that's a good thing, because their drive for self preservation would likely have prevented them to do what was necessary and a much worse second explosion would not have prevented. As an European, I'm grateful for those people's self sacrifice.
Nowadays, people are fully, maybe overly aware of the dangers of nuclear radiation. There won't be enough people willing to sacrifice themselves to prevent an worse outcome of a possible meltdown.
Nobody's claiming the situation isn't already extremely bad. But a meltdown would still make it so much worse - it is not within the capacity of the world's economy to clean up the fallout of such an event, and Japan sure can't afford to have a large part of its land be useless wasteland.
Yes, people are misusing that event to further their own anti nuclear agenda. Distasteful, definitely, but that doesn't mean that the news' focus on the situation is out of proportion.
Microsoft never had a positive image?
In these circles, perhaps. But the world is larger than that, and the opinion of a few geeks, even of a hundred thousand geeks, doesn't carry as much weight as aforementioned geeks like to think.
That'is not limited to geeks, probably every self contained social group over exaggerates its effect on society.
Oh, he was doing quite well then. Played a lot of MGS I suppose.
Also, targeting GameStop earns him some sympathy.. Shame he was in it for reselling.
To be fair, there aren't many sources for that story. It's some regional news with only coincidental relevance for some fringe group of society after all..
http://news.google.de/news/story?pz=1&cf=all&ned=us&hl=en&q=Greeneville,+Tennessee&ncl=dm5qbkfTcoN9UCMSJMUI6rFVH6iCM&channel=suggest
Why wouldn't it be? The application takes only very well defined input and the hardware is known. I don't see any problems.
Interesting. My next guess then would be that the extra MIDI data the game requires can be safely ignored by sequencers.
Do you think pro mode will be different with that guitar than it is now? Because the way it is now, I don't see much room for that kind of thing. But of course, we'll just have to wait and see.
Wow. You sure are a malware magnet. Luckily it seems to fit your hobby.
Please be aware not everyone gets attacked as much as you do and the kind of organization you wield to protect yourself would be overkill for most people.
I thinks it's sadder when an ATM runs XP. Those things handle sensitive data and should be kept as simple as possible, as more code always implies more bugs, no matter who's code it is.
An ATM running DOS would generally feel more trustworthy to me than one running XP.
It's an open source product? Okay, then I guess I see the relevance. Sorry, my bad.
They could have mentioned that in the summary though..
Sure, it's something to make fun of, Windows 3.0 and all that. But advertising an anti virus product beta on Slashdot's main page? C'mon.