I assume they're in a 'nursing home' for a reason.
All all for the right for people to choose to die.
We're gonna die anyway and old people know enough to make that choice for themselves. There should be a suitable machine in all nursing homes (eg. a hypoxia booth).
If it was really dangerous the 'terrorists' would be using it as a weapon.
I'd be OK with it if they blocked voice calls and allowed texting/data. There's not many things worse than being sat 18 inches from some idiot yakking on a phone for a few hours.
As a creator, I want the strongest protection, whatever is applicable.
Neither copyright nor patent gives you that at the moment.
Could you mount a lawsuit against a big company? Protecting yourself requires money and time. The government isn't watching your back and sending the police around to arrest violators, you have to do all that yourself.
Patents mean you can stop me from distributing software that's completely my own design and work, even if I never knew your software existed, or even if you never wrote any software at all, just because it uses ideas that you also had, and managed to get accepted by the patent office.
That's true.
OK, it's a huge difference if this becomes accepted as law.
It's very unlikely that an independent developer would write exactly the same code or create exactly the same API as something else that already exists.
I prefer home movie watching for the convenience and savings. I'm more comfortable. But when I do go the theaters I rarely see the bad behavior that some here (that say they don't go) describe.
That's mostly at weekends. It's a lot quieter if you go to late night sessions on Monday/Tuesday.
...and that's why I got a 65" high definition television - so I can have all of the "big screen" with none of the dipshits ruining the experience. If you're seeing 10 movies a year in theaters, that's $300+ you could use to invest in a decent home theater experience.
I hate theaters. The people who have to use their phones, the ones chatting, the children jumping around and making noise, or the laser pointers. Haven't set foot in a theater since 98
You can go back now. The laser pointer craze died out in about the year 2000.
"We have never engaged in the secret scanning of email traffic like what has been reported today about Yahoo. I want to be absolutely clear that we have never worked with any government agency from any country to create a backdoor in any of our products or services. We have also never allowed access to our servers. And we never will."
ie. Your system is so insecure that the government didn't need your help to get in.
That equates to enough energy to melt 300 grams of ice - which is approx 1 cm of fresh uncompacted powder snow, or about 5 mm of settled snow, or about 0.6 mm of ice.
What if it snows at night and covers them up so the sunlight can't get through?
Slashdot Mirror
Google "0.3mm O-ring" and get back to me, will you?
(0.3mm is what my 200m water-resistant watch uses to keep water out...)
It's almost as if you believe that Apple just invented waterproofing.
False argument. The fact that it doesn't exist yet doesn't mean it can't be built.
Many things like waterproof watches are sealed using 0.5mm O-rings. Google "0.5mm O-ring" if you don't believe me.
Would a 0.5mm O-ring add too much bulk to an iPhone? Don't be an idiot.
Plus: How exactly do you think the iPhone 7 is sealed? Unicorns and rainbows, or ... a rubber gasket and silicone gunk just like everything else?
Could people mess up the waterproof seal if they were allowed to take the back off? Sure, but that's their problem, not Apple's.
I assume they're in a 'nursing home' for a reason.
All all for the right for people to choose to die.
We're gonna die anyway and old people know enough to make that choice for themselves. There should be a suitable machine in all nursing homes (eg. a hypoxia booth).
I own plenty of waterproof gadgets that have removable batteries.
If it was really dangerous the 'terrorists' would be using it as a weapon.
I'd be OK with it if they blocked voice calls and allowed texting/data. There's not many things worse than being sat 18 inches from some idiot yakking on a phone for a few hours.
As a user, I'd much prefer the water proofing, smaller overall size / greater capacity, and other benefits that come from an integrated battery.
Stop believing the Apple sales pitches. None of those things is incompatible with a removable battery.
As a creator, I want the strongest protection, whatever is applicable.
Neither copyright nor patent gives you that at the moment.
Could you mount a lawsuit against a big company? Protecting yourself requires money and time. The government isn't watching your back and sending the police around to arrest violators, you have to do all that yourself.
>
Patents mean you can stop me from distributing software that's completely my own design and work, even if I never knew your software existed, or even if you never wrote any software at all, just because it uses ideas that you also had, and managed to get accepted by the patent office.
That's true.
OK, it's a huge difference if this becomes accepted as law.
It's very unlikely that an independent developer would write exactly the same code or create exactly the same API as something else that already exists.
Have you seen the wars between Sun/Oracle over the Java API? Not even Java code, the Java API.
Bottom line: Copyright still involves lawyers and lawyers can think up reasons to make you miserable no matter what common sense says.
b) Usually the lawyers with most funding will win.
"software is "a form of language," which we don't patent: "
No, we copyright it. And copyrights last forever...
(so long as Disney has nickel to bribe congress to extend copyright laws)
Good thing too. Can you imagine how bad tempered and cantankerous they'd be if they lived to be 200 years old.
I prefer home movie watching for the convenience and savings. I'm more comfortable. But when I do go the theaters I rarely see the bad behavior that some here (that say they don't go) describe.
That's mostly at weekends. It's a lot quieter if you go to late night sessions on Monday/Tuesday.
...and that's why I got a 65" high definition television - so I can have all of the "big screen" with none of the dipshits ruining the experience. If you're seeing 10 movies a year in theaters, that's $300+ you could use to invest in a decent home theater experience.
And if you invite a friend over it's $600+.
I hate theaters. The people who have to use their phones, the ones chatting, the children jumping around and making noise, or the laser pointers. Haven't set foot in a theater since 98
You can go back now. The laser pointer craze died out in about the year 2000.
C++ lets you choose much more easily than C.
Plus: std::vector is simply safer than C array. eg. It has a size so you don't need to pass the size of the array around separately.
Yes, you could make a struct in C that has the array pointer and the size but you're just making life complicated for yourself.
C++ exists! Use it! Use it even if all you do is write C code with std::vector and std::string instead of malloc/free.
So you don't think that just perhaps the officers wearing cameras were behaving better knowing they were being recorded?
It seems to me that to place all of the blame on one side is rather narrow minded of you.
Perhaps the public were better behaved, too. Knowing they were on camera.
"We have never engaged in the secret scanning of email traffic like what has been reported today about Yahoo. I want to be absolutely clear that we have never worked with any government agency from any country to create a backdoor in any of our products or services. We have also never allowed access to our servers. And we never will."
ie. Your system is so insecure that the government didn't need your help to get in.
C++ allows you to choose.
That equates to enough energy to melt 300 grams of ice - which is approx 1 cm of fresh uncompacted powder snow, or about 5 mm of settled snow, or about 0.6 mm of ice.
What if it snows at night and covers them up so the sunlight can't get through?
Problem: We know exactly how much energy is in sunlight.
Clue: Not enough!
Intellectual exchanges like this^ need to be preserved that for posterity.
Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1683/
Or you have your own string functions (or use any of the ones from a shared library) which provides the same thing.
You mean you reproduce C++ functionality in C? Wouldn't it make sense to just use C++?
I hope you meant strlcpy. The strncpy function is actually quite dangerous because it doesn't guarantee that the result will be null-terminated.
...another example of why C++ is a much safer language than C.
(No, I haven't used C or low level string functions seriously since ... about when Visual C++ 6.0 was introduced).
C++ allows you to choose.
You can turn off the constraints on std::vector if you want to (and people frequently do in a "release" build).