IMHO, this law has nothing to do with the environment. Most likely, its a corporate lobby to give them an excuse to raise the price of incandescent bulbs. In other words, legalized price fixing.
Furthermore, with the amount of money those foreign governments hold, it's the US that owns them, not the other way around. The same way that if I owe a bank 100 grand, the bank owns me, but if I owe the bank 50 billion, I own the bank.
That's not the case here. U.S. has acquired both debts and assets. If you want a bank analogy, here it is: you buy a nice car. You spent all your money on the car. Now you have to take a loan from the bank to buy food, but you are not willing to give up your comfortable car. Since the car depreciates over time, the bank owns you and your car.
I do.NET development for a living, and I have to say that I do not enjoy it. Microsoft does things in such a way that it makes easy for stupid people to write stupid programs. My coworkers love the whole drag and drop controls stuff, but honestly, when you look at the codebehind it becomes a spaghetti mess. We have files that are 2000 lines long that could be written in 15 if we used django, for example.
That said, the whole drag-and-drop culture has generated (.NET) developers that do not understand the best practices of writing maintainable code. Whenever I use something more "advanced" such as nHibernate, people start to get lost. Of course there are always those people that actually know what they are doing, but, amazingly enough, they use.NET + VS only at work and would prefer other environments if they got to pick.
Don't get me wrong: as a language, I have to say that C# is quite remarkable. It has features that many of other languages don't. The framework where it sits, on the other hand, only makes sense to the developers who wrote it. If you are making forms, its nice, for anything else, it will start to get on your way.
Got a better one?
In fact, I do. I feel much more productive writing Python in Gedit than writing C#/.NET in VS. If you want a full ide, PyDev works beautifully. Most of my django development I don't even have to do any SQL or use any SQL client: I just manipulate models directly on the Python shell. However, if all you know is to drag and drop and click on shiny things, then that might be over your head. I have heard wonders about Ruby as well, even though I have played with it very little.
Next time you are going to criticize other environments by using a vocabulary that matches the IQ of monkeys, at least have the guts to not to post as AC.
The main difference of netflix and DirecTV is that DirecTV might as well use your ISPs internet for upload only. They already have an entire satellite system, and I wouldn't be surprised if they used that to stream their movies to a receiver, instead of using crowded ISP pipes, bypassing ISPs stupid caps. If that indeed happens, it will be definitely a game changer.
I wonder why companies that strongly support open source software are being bought by other companies - is there any correlation?. First Sun, now Novell. I sure hope that doesn't happen to IBM...
Opportunity cost. There is a threshold of how much people are willing to give up to acquire a certain product. If we are talking about buying a $40 DVD, that means that one will have to forgo everything else that that $40 might buy, and spend it on a DVD. For many people, that is a high price to pay, especially when it will provide only a limited amount of entertainment that might not be worth the $40 in the first place.
Piracy offers products that people want at a lower opportunity cost. Many countries sell pirated content (shoes, purses, software), and suing those people for buying that would have no effect on the original product sales. It would only mean that people would get the money and spend on things they find are more important.
Essentially, piracy exists because prices are set above the consumer valuation of the product. If that generates greater profit for companies, good for them, but suing people and expect people buy their products out of fear will get them nowhere.
it can prove that you are who you say you are when online in some verifiable and prohibitively difficult to steal kind of way (at least it terms of the minimalistic rewards such theft grants). When you read a review on an apartment or a product or a service... when someone trolls you on a forum... etc... you can know first that it's not a machine and second that that person will be accountable for any false information they give.
Do you really think people would be honest about a review if they weren't anonymous? I think anonymity has contributed enormously towards honest comments on the internet, since people are less likely to be scared of being persecuted due to their thoughts.
This is not news. Pat Metheny has been doing this for the last two years, except with a full band of robots. I have been to his concert and I can attest it works very well. Here is an example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsYEOUKS4Yk&feature=related
I accidentally left a silver knife and a silver fork that I use to lunch at work in my backpack when I made a trip to Brazil. Passed through 4 domestic flights and 2 international ones and none of the security check points noticed a thing. I was surprised when I got home and found those in my bag.
IMHO, it would be better to start defining media protocols to stream hi def audio through TCP/IP.
This way we would get rid of cable standards, and be able to tune in different devices on the tv just by changing which server it connects to (goodbye A/V switchers and the like).
Of course, giving an IP address to your TV may cause people to go nuts about security issues, but in a world where your printer, your router, and your computer are constantly on-line, this could be worked out.
Capitalism can't produce common goods. Internet would've never had existed if it weren't for the US government. It was created in an academic environment, by passionate people that cared about the advance of technolog (indirectly: of mankind).
No. The internet was a result from a military project that aimed to create a computer network safe enough to withstand a nuclear attack. Therefore, the internet was the by product of the cold war. Google "arpanet" if you are in doubt.
people 'feel entitled' to have what they want when they want it, and if they can't get it for free, 'they'll steal it.'
companies 'feel entitled" to have profit with what they want when they want it, and if they can't get it, 'they'll sue poor grandmas and whine like babies'
Indeed it would be more beneficial to OSS as a whole to have native apps running on linux instead of just running what another OS can run.
However, in order for people to be willing to ditch windows for linux, a heck of a lot of apps have to be improved. Let's be real now: most linux alternatives do not compare to what professional apps can do on windows (gimp/photoshop, audacity/sonar, flash, and the list goes on...).
If wine is not to be used, then the only other option is to make OSS be comparable to its alternatives in a way that its not only fairly similar, but exceeds its closed source counterparts in capacity and features. In other words, OSS not only needs to copy, but make it better.
IMHO, the mistake of both Microsoft and Yahoo is to think that this is merely a war for market share, and that they can win by simply duplicating whatever google does.
In fact, this is more of an innovation war: users won't switch to whatever microsoft/yahoo partnership offers unless it does something that people find useful AND that google has not implemented yet.
Just make every tab a separate sandboxed process that can emulate x86, so you can install windows inside IE, and therefore run IE inside your windows that you installed on your IE...
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IMHO, this law has nothing to do with the environment. Most likely, its a corporate lobby to give them an excuse to raise the price of incandescent bulbs. In other words, legalized price fixing.
Furthermore, with the amount of money those foreign governments hold, it's the US that owns them, not the other way around. The same way that if I owe a bank 100 grand, the bank owns me, but if I owe the bank 50 billion, I own the bank.
That's not the case here. U.S. has acquired both debts and assets. If you want a bank analogy, here it is: you buy a nice car. You spent all your money on the car. Now you have to take a loan from the bank to buy food, but you are not willing to give up your comfortable car. Since the car depreciates over time, the bank owns you and your car.
I do .NET development for a living, and I have to say that I do not enjoy it. Microsoft does things in such a way that it makes easy for stupid people to write stupid programs. My coworkers love the whole drag and drop controls stuff, but honestly, when you look at the codebehind it becomes a spaghetti mess. We have files that are 2000 lines long that could be written in 15 if we used django, for example.
That said, the whole drag-and-drop culture has generated (.NET) developers that do not understand the best practices of writing maintainable code. Whenever I use something more "advanced" such as nHibernate, people start to get lost. Of course there are always those people that actually know what they are doing, but, amazingly enough, they use .NET + VS only at work and would prefer other environments if they got to pick.
Don't get me wrong: as a language, I have to say that C# is quite remarkable. It has features that many of other languages don't. The framework where it sits, on the other hand, only makes sense to the developers who wrote it. If you are making forms, its nice, for anything else, it will start to get on your way.
Got a better one?
In fact, I do. I feel much more productive writing Python in Gedit than writing C#/.NET in VS. If you want a full ide, PyDev works beautifully. Most of my django development I don't even have to do any SQL or use any SQL client: I just manipulate models directly on the Python shell. However, if all you know is to drag and drop and click on shiny things, then that might be over your head. I have heard wonders about Ruby as well, even though I have played with it very little.
Next time you are going to criticize other environments by using a vocabulary that matches the IQ of monkeys, at least have the guts to not to post as AC.
The main difference of netflix and DirecTV is that DirecTV might as well use your ISPs internet for upload only. They already have an entire satellite system, and I wouldn't be surprised if they used that to stream their movies to a receiver, instead of using crowded ISP pipes, bypassing ISPs stupid caps. If that indeed happens, it will be definitely a game changer.
I wonder why companies that strongly support open source software are being bought by other companies - is there any correlation?. First Sun, now Novell. I sure hope that doesn't happen to IBM...
Now I wanna see a dance of bits being changed in an ALU. That should be entertaining.
Heck, we could even write an asm program and have it ran by a dance processor...
Opportunity cost. There is a threshold of how much people are willing to give up to acquire a certain product. If we are talking about buying a $40 DVD, that means that one will have to forgo everything else that that $40 might buy, and spend it on a DVD. For many people, that is a high price to pay, especially when it will provide only a limited amount of entertainment that might not be worth the $40 in the first place.
Piracy offers products that people want at a lower opportunity cost. Many countries sell pirated content (shoes, purses, software), and suing those people for buying that would have no effect on the original product sales. It would only mean that people would get the money and spend on things they find are more important.
Essentially, piracy exists because prices are set above the consumer valuation of the product. If that generates greater profit for companies, good for them, but suing people and expect people buy their products out of fear will get them nowhere.
it can prove that you are who you say you are when online in some verifiable and prohibitively difficult to steal kind of way (at least it terms of the minimalistic rewards such theft grants). When you read a review on an apartment or a product or a service... when someone trolls you on a forum... etc... you can know first that it's not a machine and second that that person will be accountable for any false information they give.
Do you really think people would be honest about a review if they weren't anonymous? I think anonymity has contributed enormously towards honest comments on the internet, since people are less likely to be scared of being persecuted due to their thoughts.
Raise your hand if when you first read the article title, you thought that "Hard Disk Sector" was a literal, physical, hard disk sector.
This is not news. Pat Metheny has been doing this for the last two years, except with a full band of robots. I have been to his concert and I can attest it works very well. Here is an example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsYEOUKS4Yk&feature=related
Offtopic, but important: can someone flag parent as a spam, if that is even possible? This is obviously a misuse of slashdot for link building.
I accidentally left a silver knife and a silver fork that I use to lunch at work in my backpack when I made a trip to Brazil. Passed through 4 domestic flights and 2 international ones and none of the security check points noticed a thing. I was surprised when I got home and found those in my bag.
Maybe the mayan word for "world" was translated incorrectly. It actually meant "IPv4 address space".
Sorry: read hi def audio *and* video
IMHO, it would be better to start defining media protocols to stream hi def audio through TCP/IP. This way we would get rid of cable standards, and be able to tune in different devices on the tv just by changing which server it connects to (goodbye A/V switchers and the like).
Of course, giving an IP address to your TV may cause people to go nuts about security issues, but in a world where your printer, your router, and your computer are constantly on-line, this could be worked out.
Just put an @ sign after it: Go@ (goat)
the system makes every possible effort to interpret the code in such a way so that it doesn't have to do what you instructed it to do.
So law is interpreted. Wonder why our justice system is so slow...
Capitalism can't produce common goods. Internet would've never had existed if it weren't for the US government. It was created in an academic environment, by passionate people that cared about the advance of technolog (indirectly: of mankind).
No. The internet was a result from a military project that aimed to create a computer network safe enough to withstand a nuclear attack. Therefore, the internet was the by product of the cold war. Google "arpanet" if you are in doubt.
people 'feel entitled' to have what they want when they want it, and if they can't get it for free, 'they'll steal it.'
companies 'feel entitled" to have profit with what they want when they want it, and if they can't get it, 'they'll sue poor grandmas and whine like babies'
Indeed it would be more beneficial to OSS as a whole to have native apps running on linux instead of just running what another OS can run. However, in order for people to be willing to ditch windows for linux, a heck of a lot of apps have to be improved. Let's be real now: most linux alternatives do not compare to what professional apps can do on windows (gimp/photoshop, audacity/sonar, flash, and the list goes on...).
If wine is not to be used, then the only other option is to make OSS be comparable to its alternatives in a way that its not only fairly similar, but exceeds its closed source counterparts in capacity and features. In other words, OSS not only needs to copy, but make it better.
IMHO, the mistake of both Microsoft and Yahoo is to think that this is merely a war for market share, and that they can win by simply duplicating whatever google does.
In fact, this is more of an innovation war: users won't switch to whatever microsoft/yahoo partnership offers unless it does something that people find useful AND that google has not implemented yet.
ActiveX security problems? Easy.
Just make every tab a separate sandboxed process that can emulate x86, so you can install windows inside IE, and therefore run IE inside your windows that you installed on your IE...
(starts getting dizy)
It seems someone needs to add backslashes to their SQL statements...
What the fuck is authentic these days?
According to dictionary.com:
au-then-tic
-adjective
1. not false or copied; genuine; real: an authentic antique.
Its hard to have something authentic these days when the same technique is copied over and over, giving us songs that are much alike to each other.
Computer, end program.