Since you specifically asked about what I said above, I'll repeat it here. An alternative to breaks and gotos in C, which gets you functionality more like exceptions, is the setjmp.h header's setjmp (equivalent to except) and longjmp (equivalent to raise or throw).
I realise it's unfashionable to actually contradict someone with facts rather than emotional outbursts, but you might want to try it some time. That way, when you're bitching about flawed posts, you won't look like you're just fighting your inner demons in public;)
Indeed. Not only that, you get to play a static, old version of Linux, on static, old hardware, with static, old games designed for that system. Hardware devices are one place I'd like to see Linux and other trademarks enforced, so that their name doesn't get associated with upgraded wristwatches.
Shove it. I got "rich" from working my ass off in college, earning three fucking degrees, working my ass off at work, and most importantly saving every penny I earn until I had a million dollars. So shove your "you must be a crook" attitude up your shit-filled ass.
And that makes you better than everyone else who stuggles to survive how, exactly?
The fact is, human work is human work, and money is nothing but token for that work. Excluding a few immature people who still have to realise the economic pressures they're under, most people work pretty hard. For the same hours, we should all earn the same. If you earn much more than someone else for an hours' work, then yes, you're stealing it, even if you don't realise that. That's exactly why the world is in financial melt-down right now: because people have been imagining that they've made money, when in fact, they've made shit up.
Don't want to have people seeing your private shit? Don't keep it out in the open, in public view.
Yep. You'd think "affluent" people would have availed themselves of the opportunity to learn some old chinese wisdom, considering it's been available and respected for ~2500 years now:
"...If you do not value rare treasures, you will stop others from stealing.... Get rid of cleverness and abandon profit, and thieves and gangsters will not exist..."
So far, they've succeed in having articles published saying that their town is an affluent area with lots of stuff worth stealing. Good job, rich dudes.
Yep, I thought the same at first. Now though, I'm thinking there are probably a ton of possibilities: other chicks in an earlier, botched, non-double-blind experiment went that way, and left some kind of trail, the researchers laid out the experiment in some way that gave the chicks a clue...
I don't doubt for a second that most animals can count small numbers, although birdwatchers have been known to run in and out of hides to confuse birds about how many people are left inside. But I'm really sick of seeing all these flawed experiments that jump to flawed conclusions. Most of these "scientists" probably get into science because they're too proud to be the hairdresser they always wanted to be.
"Shame on the faulty system with such a stupid loophole." Did they subvert the democratic process? Kinda. But did they do things within the boundries of their law? Apparently so.
Pretty much all laws will eventually be found to have loopholes, much like almost no software is bug-free.
That's not the problem though. The problem with law is that the system doesn't often enough remember that the spirit of the law is much more important than the letter of the law, nor does it remember often enough what the spirit of each law was. This is akin to not having a specification for software, so you can't even tell if an aspect of the implementation is intentional, accidental, or malicious.
Ah, but see, you're implying that, if THEIR beliefs don't fit YOUR criterion (logic), then they must be wrong. Believe it or not, there are things to base decisions on, other than mathematical logic. Only one half of our brains deals with simple deterministic logic (like a deterministic program); the other deals in intuition, like fuzzy logic, genetic algorithms, etc. Just because you can't explain logically why a choice was made, doesn't mean it was the wrong choice. Everyone knows this, when it comes to things like love, but some crazy people reject it when it comes to reasons for living, lifestyle that helps them get on with the people around them, philosophy of the world around them, etc., which is all religion really is anyway.
Yes. Vista is rock solid on solid hardware. Seriously. Vista is as reliable as Linux. Some people wreck their vista installation, some people wreck their Linux installation.
Ever tried a Marvell NIC on a 64-bit vista system? It works fine, as long as you don't have more than 4GB installed. That's some 64-bit architecture there.
Anyway, hardware crippled with DRM is not solid hardware.
On the level of philosophy and principles, I tend to agree: more and more, I'm seeing what amount to thought crimes being enacted in law. You're not allowed to write this, you're not allowed to look at that, you're not allowed to copy this with your own computer, your own electricity, and your own blank media... all of this is a violation of fundamental laws of supply and demand, natural rights, civil liberties, and the basic principle that adults don't need to be hand-held by other adults. I can only hope that one day, the powers that be will go too far, and citizens will wake up. Chances are it won't happen until the vast majority of citizens are online, and some simple mechanism allows easily whipping up that backlash under the right circumstances.
However, all that said... it's not really about that, when it comes to Joe Citizen being in court for something. Principles don't matter; legal precedent matters little. Rights? Most everyday judges probably don't even grasp the concepts well enough to consider them properly. Basically, if you piss them off, you're screwed. And trust me, arguing that downloading Metallica-St_CrapRIAALovingBand.torrent is the same as downloading an integer, however right you may be, is going to land you in some shit.
Facebook has never given a crap about which apps run on it. They allow all sorts of apps on there that are nothing more than viral scams designed to steal user data. And, as a corporate machine, why wouldn't they? Every time one of those apps sends a message to a user, that user comes back to their site, might click on the invite friends link, and expand the facebook empire further.
Anyway... there's one good side to all this. Facebook is HUGE. Quite a big portion of the whole internet is using it, and if more of that portion starts using P2P, it pushes momentum in P2P users' favor, and away from big media's interests.
Yes, downloading a.torrent is not a big deal. You could simply argue that you clicked the.torrent link, had not client installed, and nothing much happened, so you went on with your day. That's not the issue though.
If you download a torrent, and your system loads a client and starts contacting a tracker, then THAT is when big media and their minions can notice. They connect to the trackers, and look at who else is listed as peers on those trackers. It's got nothing to do with downloading the.torrent file, and everything to do with not using public bittorrent trackers like The Pirate Bay.
Just get yourself a usenet account that supports SSL, usenet client that understands SSL and NZB files (analogous to.torrent files), and be happy.
How so? In most games, you can either control an army as a flock of sprites, or play individual characters. In a good book, you can read a chapter from a king's perspective, another from the perspective of a prisoner in a dungeon, another from a lowly soldier on the battlefield, another from a commander trying to strategise on the battlefield, and yet another from a frightened child hiding under a bush as her mother is raped by that noble commander's henchmen. If you know of games with that depth and complexity, I'd love to hear of them.
and some people brag and boast about living in said country...
Yes, and USians brag and boast about living in a democracy, where everyone has equal chance to be president, and many other imagined "virtues", despite none of those things being true. On the other side of the coin, they'll happily bemoan the corruption and poor human rights in China, or the lack of free speech, whilst being in denial about the very same things happening under their own noses.
The sad fact is that many western citizens consider themselves free and enlightened and free of propaganda, while swallowing propaganda whole on a daily basis.
Games are more interactive, yes. But are they really complex or deep? I don't think so. When you can turn an entire county back from a hellish war full of maddened characters by visiting every town and shown them the bodies of their children, and NONE of that was scripted by the game designers, then you'll have complex and deep interactions. Then, games will truly take the crown of entertainment (and more). However, when you shoot stuff and people say "I surrender" and an outro plays, then a book or even a good movie with decent portrayals of the human condition is still WAY a more interesting, complex, and life-changing experience.
But on the bigger point here, that games, 3d art, and software in general are great creative works, that deserve more recognition by the traditional art community... right on. It's been a long time coming, and there's a long way to go yet before the digital world (and digital artists, including coders) have been properly recognised for their contributions.
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When disrespecting an individual's religion is also disrespecting the individual's right to believe what he chooses, this distinction, while true, is largely irrelevant.
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Since you specifically asked about what I said above, I'll repeat it here. An alternative to breaks and gotos in C, which gets you functionality more like exceptions, is the setjmp.h header's setjmp (equivalent to except) and longjmp (equivalent to raise or throw).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longjmp#Exception_handling
FWIW, I believe setjmp/longjmp are the closest C equivalents to exceptions.
I realise it's unfashionable to actually contradict someone with facts rather than emotional outbursts, but you might want to try it some time. That way, when you're bitching about flawed posts, you won't look like you're just fighting your inner demons in public ;)
Indeed. Not only that, you get to play a static, old version of Linux, on static, old hardware, with static, old games designed for that system. Hardware devices are one place I'd like to see Linux and other trademarks enforced, so that their name doesn't get associated with upgraded wristwatches.
And that makes you better than everyone else who stuggles to survive how, exactly?
The fact is, human work is human work, and money is nothing but token for that work. Excluding a few immature people who still have to realise the economic pressures they're under, most people work pretty hard. For the same hours, we should all earn the same. If you earn much more than someone else for an hours' work, then yes, you're stealing it, even if you don't realise that. That's exactly why the world is in financial melt-down right now: because people have been imagining that they've made money, when in fact, they've made shit up.
Yep. You'd think "affluent" people would have availed themselves of the opportunity to learn some old chinese wisdom, considering it's been available and respected for ~2500 years now:
"...If you do not value rare treasures, you will stop others from stealing. ...
Get rid of cleverness and abandon profit, and thieves and gangsters will not exist..."
So far, they've succeed in having articles published saying that their town is an affluent area with lots of stuff worth stealing. Good job, rich dudes.
Why would Microsoft want to remove stuff about upgrading to Vista, when they're about to start pushing Windows 7?
Yep, I thought the same at first. Now though, I'm thinking there are probably a ton of possibilities: other chicks in an earlier, botched, non-double-blind experiment went that way, and left some kind of trail, the researchers laid out the experiment in some way that gave the chicks a clue...
I don't doubt for a second that most animals can count small numbers, although birdwatchers have been known to run in and out of hides to confuse birds about how many people are left inside. But I'm really sick of seeing all these flawed experiments that jump to flawed conclusions. Most of these "scientists" probably get into science because they're too proud to be the hairdresser they always wanted to be.
Oh, that's a long way off yet. As yet, no robot ever created has shown an interest in big tits.
And that unusual correlation alone is enough to make it questionable.
Pretty much all laws will eventually be found to have loopholes, much like almost no software is bug-free.
That's not the problem though. The problem with law is that the system doesn't often enough remember that the spirit of the law is much more important than the letter of the law, nor does it remember often enough what the spirit of each law was. This is akin to not having a specification for software, so you can't even tell if an aspect of the implementation is intentional, accidental, or malicious.
Ah, but see, you're implying that, if THEIR beliefs don't fit YOUR criterion (logic), then they must be wrong. Believe it or not, there are things to base decisions on, other than mathematical logic. Only one half of our brains deals with simple deterministic logic (like a deterministic program); the other deals in intuition, like fuzzy logic, genetic algorithms, etc. Just because you can't explain logically why a choice was made, doesn't mean it was the wrong choice. Everyone knows this, when it comes to things like love, but some crazy people reject it when it comes to reasons for living, lifestyle that helps them get on with the people around them, philosophy of the world around them, etc., which is all religion really is anyway.
You can do this just fine on Debian/Ubuntu. Choose a decent distro if you want decent installation options.
Ever tried a Marvell NIC on a 64-bit vista system? It works fine, as long as you don't have more than 4GB installed. That's some 64-bit architecture there.
Anyway, hardware crippled with DRM is not solid hardware.
Ahh, right. Fair points :)
On the level of philosophy and principles, I tend to agree: more and more, I'm seeing what amount to thought crimes being enacted in law. You're not allowed to write this, you're not allowed to look at that, you're not allowed to copy this with your own computer, your own electricity, and your own blank media... all of this is a violation of fundamental laws of supply and demand, natural rights, civil liberties, and the basic principle that adults don't need to be hand-held by other adults. I can only hope that one day, the powers that be will go too far, and citizens will wake up. Chances are it won't happen until the vast majority of citizens are online, and some simple mechanism allows easily whipping up that backlash under the right circumstances.
However, all that said... it's not really about that, when it comes to Joe Citizen being in court for something. Principles don't matter; legal precedent matters little. Rights? Most everyday judges probably don't even grasp the concepts well enough to consider them properly. Basically, if you piss them off, you're screwed. And trust me, arguing that downloading Metallica-St_CrapRIAALovingBand.torrent is the same as downloading an integer, however right you may be, is going to land you in some shit.
Facebook has never given a crap about which apps run on it. They allow all sorts of apps on there that are nothing more than viral scams designed to steal user data. And, as a corporate machine, why wouldn't they? Every time one of those apps sends a message to a user, that user comes back to their site, might click on the invite friends link, and expand the facebook empire further.
Anyway... there's one good side to all this. Facebook is HUGE. Quite a big portion of the whole internet is using it, and if more of that portion starts using P2P, it pushes momentum in P2P users' favor, and away from big media's interests.
OK, all y'all are wrong, fer fuck's sake.
Yes, downloading a .torrent is not a big deal. You could simply argue that you clicked the .torrent link, had not client installed, and nothing much happened, so you went on with your day. That's not the issue though.
If you download a torrent, and your system loads a client and starts contacting a tracker, then THAT is when big media and their minions can notice. They connect to the trackers, and look at who else is listed as peers on those trackers. It's got nothing to do with downloading the .torrent file, and everything to do with not using public bittorrent trackers like The Pirate Bay.
Just get yourself a usenet account that supports SSL, usenet client that understands SSL and NZB files (analogous to .torrent files), and be happy.
Possibly. But from the post's description, I suspect what they've actually identified is the psychic nut-job region of the brain.
How so? In most games, you can either control an army as a flock of sprites, or play individual characters. In a good book, you can read a chapter from a king's perspective, another from the perspective of a prisoner in a dungeon, another from a lowly soldier on the battlefield, another from a commander trying to strategise on the battlefield, and yet another from a frightened child hiding under a bush as her mother is raped by that noble commander's henchmen. If you know of games with that depth and complexity, I'd love to hear of them.
Yes, and USians brag and boast about living in a democracy, where everyone has equal chance to be president, and many other imagined "virtues", despite none of those things being true. On the other side of the coin, they'll happily bemoan the corruption and poor human rights in China, or the lack of free speech, whilst being in denial about the very same things happening under their own noses.
The sad fact is that many western citizens consider themselves free and enlightened and free of propaganda, while swallowing propaganda whole on a daily basis.
Games are more interactive, yes. But are they really complex or deep? I don't think so. When you can turn an entire county back from a hellish war full of maddened characters by visiting every town and shown them the bodies of their children, and NONE of that was scripted by the game designers, then you'll have complex and deep interactions. Then, games will truly take the crown of entertainment (and more). However, when you shoot stuff and people say "I surrender" and an outro plays, then a book or even a good movie with decent portrayals of the human condition is still WAY a more interesting, complex, and life-changing experience.
But on the bigger point here, that games, 3d art, and software in general are great creative works, that deserve more recognition by the traditional art community... right on. It's been a long time coming, and there's a long way to go yet before the digital world (and digital artists, including coders) have been properly recognised for their contributions.
There, fixed that for you.
When disrespecting an individual's religion is also disrespecting the individual's right to believe what he chooses, this distinction, while true, is largely irrelevant.
Absolutely. No one should be allowed to disagree with free speech!