Agree, and I would like to add, if you downloaded you music, you can still be sued for that regardless if you "legalized" it somehow. Except than now, you can also be sued to falsely claim that you owned the music when uploading it.
All you have with iCloud, is a little bit more chance than some copyright holder will want to have a closer look at your collection.
Ask then again after they have been trained, like in Italy or US to vote on their emotion instead of fact. After they have been trained to see the world in black and white, to despise debate and science. After they are convinced that education should teach skill with market value rather than making educated citizen.
That is a process that is well underway everywhere in EU/US. People are trained to vote like the way they buy a pair of shoes. Considering Italy, we are lucky that they didn't decide to outlaw nuclear power.
You are kidding right. The only thing Java and Javascript have in common is the 4 letters in their name. OK the syntax is "in the family"-ish but the concept of the language is vastly different than any of the language you cite. (plenty of framework try to beat javascript into looking like a class based OO language with various degree of success)
The bad wrap for JS is that although it is a neat little language (it is), it has the maturity of a language in beta. You need to have a look at a book like "javascript the good part", especially the chapter about the bad/awful part chapter, realise and cry [eg: read about "this" pointer meaning, arguments pseudo array,...]. Another problem is that javascript, the core, is implemented by the browser, and even for core feature, browser can behave very differently, eg:15 years old+ language feature like rounding a bloody number. And of course, difficult to dissociate javascript from the rest of its environment: the DOM and all its pain.
And virtually killed. I mean what Microsoft announce and what they deliver is vastly different world. They may pull us a trick like creating a extra ultra low level Win32 API used inconsistently between the OS, their IDE and Office.
Then they would provide as promised a HTML5/JS API, but with IE10, that will require Win8 or above, meaning that the developer will need to stay with the Win32 API for another round.
Wait and See what they actually deliver - they probably won't even know until they need to print it on the box./bitter with MS promises
It depend how you define 'working'. Nowadays working should mean clean, with automated tests, little/no dead feature, little/no overengineering, no 'entreprisification', made with the right too for the job if possible, and finally coded with care (meaning coded to be read easily by fellow developer, no by tools or manager )
If that's what you have in mind by working, that is what Robert Martin generally advocate (see the other book called Clean Code): get the stuff working in a way you don't have to worry about the future because your code is clean enough so that you can refactor easily later. Haven't read this one, but I doubt he veered too much of that path.
Now, "working", in management speak, is synonym with "sold". Which cover the above scenario, but also the hacked together prototype written in VBScript by a consultant 5 years ago, converted by an automated tool to F#.Net (for no good reason), tortured to work behind the Company Mandated SOA framework, "tested" by hand by a team of 50 indian developers kept demotivated by stupid targets.
Cleaning up the mess of a hacked together application is tremendously difficult. Budget for improvement are based relative to the cost of the project and other improvements, making it even harder to justify actual cleaning up (hacking is cheap, especially because hacking generally means no testing). When the project is in production with big client, even minor change to stuff like datamodel, internal interface, message format,... will require from the client a full regression test - which means that there is resistance to change all the way. Then you have backward compatibility with your own broken interface and integration with the rest of the product portfolio which can have vastly different release plan, and then you have to deal with the design problems in other application that "bleeds" into you own (like - hey let use the portfolio position table in the database that store the position in a *double*)
In last 10+ plus developing applications,with one exception, "working" has always meant either hacked together without testing or so legacy that no refactoring is small enough to be possible. A lot of the problem would not have existed to such extend with coder caring about their code. That require skills, and books.
You do not need GMO to save the world of starvation. There is plenty enough food to feed everyone. And if you stop subsiding agriculture in first world countries, you will find remaining starvation problems are due to either shitty infrastructure (i.e. complete disregard by the local authority) or civil war/unrest.
Finding the magic crop to save the world is just another PR line like binging democracy, and the current real life use of GMO are as far from fulfilling that line as you can get.
Expert can be provided indeed. Actually expert are also provided currently to our politician, that is called lobbying.
It would take also some serious motivation for a middle/lower class citizen to either risk changing things or go voluntarily in a confrontation. It takes a certain personality to either be a (not -yet- corrupt) politician or Greenpeace activist. The average citizen would be shitty at the job for the same reason they are not in the street with their gun to change the current government.
They are filthy rich, they can buy anything that is for sale in this world, and, unfortunately, that includes pretty much everything including justice, political influence,...
The distorted power they have in the society should be balanced by a distorted amount of scrutiny. We are doing already so little of that nowadays that even something as insignificant as what the WSJ is valuable.
That sounds exactly like modern advertising actually.
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Work Agent are also Marketer. They are supposed to market you resume to prospective company. They like to do screening "on the cheap". The same (automated) tools used by carpet marketer could be used by work marketer. eg: they could find out that you are looking to buy a flat in a foreign country as a vacation residence. So you will receive ads for foreign mortgage, good thing I suppose. But your resume won't get forwarded to prospective company because you could be planning to move in a short while.
But well, back in reality, I doubt there are any tool in existence that can process the random content of a dropbox and extract some consistent / non-trivial result that may interest a marketer. The only useful info could be contact numbers, email addresses, various accounts,... that is mostly interesting for spammer, phisher and government bureaucrat/contractors.
I can understand making a settlement with some witness, so that you can progress investigation. In this case, however, this a case where settlement actually shutdown the investigation altogether. That is not normal, that just mean that if you have enough money, you have more chance than a random dude to avoid justice. Clearly not fair.
There are also settlement because the accused cannot afford to go to justice. (BTW, that is a big failure of a justice system that you cannot defend yourself if the accusation has enough money like any big corp vs John Doe) - but well, Google has billions in his coffer and probably plenty of 1000$/hour lawyer working for it full time. So what is the point of even giving them the option to settle ?
Even more reason to open source it. If it has no perceived remaining value, why keep it secret ? Student, historian, geek,... will all find something interesting, at least the historical significance.
Anyway, I can't believe that there is some self-respecting geek here on slashdot that would not at least find it cool to see the concorde blue prints.
China screw your whole company - affected every employees. However, that's ok because a few of them will be able to retire. There is no more reason to complain about this than against the Banker destroying the economy or corps buying laws - the price was right for them. (and just in case you wonder, I would go 2-3 years in China train them if that bought me and my family financial security for the rest of my life, life taught me that food on the table is a better sleeping aid than good conscience)
Yes because the only people who would be interested in this data are those that already posses a legal method of obtaining it...
If you are worried about those that do not posses legal method to access that data - you should really encrypt your data. The log can only be accessed from you home computer or you mobile phone directly (after hacking it) - if somebody you don't like has unrestricted/uncontrolled access to any of those, there is a lot more stuff you need to be worried about.
There is of course the Private Investigator case hired by your wife that could be borderline possible. In real life, that would be far easier for the PI to stick a GPS tracker under your car and that would give him more precise, more discreet data collection service.
Why does someone who presumably is not an employee of Apple feel so strongly about others who badmouth Apple or its products? That's what is difficult for me to understand.
Actually quite the opposite: why would an Apple employee cares about an insignificant (relatively to Apple target demographic) group of people. The only reasonable reason to care at all about what people on slashdot say is if you think/feel you belong. (I count rabid fanboyism for whatever "cause" in the unreasonable category) . When you think you belong, you start to get tired when the other member of the community start critisising/defending X on a continuous basis with the same empty/idiotic argumentation.
In any case with he high level of anti and pro Apple present, there would be nothing that an Apple PR could really do - I mean sometimes you think that most the post have been written by both Jobs and Ballmer kids.
Actually that's exactly what government should be there for. The government is not there to pour cash on some failing business model or rain missiles on another one uncooperative business partner - it should put regulation in place so that the business can be left to die. Proper regulation opens the market.
Of course, that would require a government that regulates for the good of its citizen rather than the corporations. Cloud market is still young, there is some hope that good regulation can be passed.
That's what you get for pricing yourselves out of the market.
Actually that is quite right. Companies moves their production where it is the cheaper and sell where it makes them the most profit. You are free to do the same. Well, except that you cannot buy wherever you want - sorry. But that's ok you can still get a master in another field, learn a foreign culture and move over there ? A company can do that in 3 month, surely a single individual would not take that long./sarcasm
Actually, a few years ago, we were told that big companies like MS, Apple, IBM and many others were just keeping a massive patent portfolio for defense against patent troll. (or did we delude ourself pretending that the big corp had some moral value?)
Seems like times have changed - now it seems that every company is suing all others with dubious patent.
We can hope that, maybe, they doubled check and some due process had to be done by Justice before authorizing any action. You know the innocent before proving guilty thing, even for an idiot bragging in a pub or on tv.
But yeah, unfortunately, experience tells me you are probably right being sarcastic.
Some day, people will learn what "First World Country [wikipedia.org]" actually meant.
FTFY
From your source - line 3:
Since its original definition, the term First World has come to be largely synonymous with developed countries or highly developed countries (depending on which definition is being used).
Google are no angels, but compared with MS they are.
Sure, like a serial killer that killed on 2 persons is an angel compared to one that killed 300. Google is still young and has plenty of potential.
Google is a very scary huge ads company that basically act as the main gatekeeper to internet for most of us. I use Google Chrome, search using Google and mail with GMail - 100% of my web activity goes through Google at some point - if Google turns evil just a little bit, I'm totally owned. Anything that keep them in check is good in my book.
Isn't that precisely the point of civilisation ? Restricting individual liberty for the greater good of all ? You get rights in exchange of fulfilling your civic duties. If you want to call being forced to follow the law at gun point "liberty",that is indeed a bit weird.
Now, being an average nerd just out of his mother basement, I appreciate the deal and I certainly have a lot more freedom than if I had to fend for myself. For the same reason, I can also appreciate the GPLv3 - it does a lot from the free availability of software, and protect my work strongly and effectively - but it does it in a fashion that has more in common with Apple walled garden than what can be called Freedom (i.e. unlicensed).
Correlation is not causation. The reason they are all connected to Microsoft can also be that they are just a bunch of greedy bastards that try to whore some attention/prestige with the least effort possible, i.e. using their old turf as starting point. For the SCO case, people would like to think that Microsoft coerced SCO to go against Linux. I'm more convinced that SCO got the idea itself and begged Microsoft for cash.
It is not defending Microsoft btw - there is enough *direct* evidence that they deserve their reputation - just point out that they can save their money for big time lobbying - the low level astroturfing like this one is covered by volunteers.
Probably a big woosh for me but just in case you are serious:
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All you have with iCloud, is a little bit more chance than some copyright holder will want to have a closer look at your collection.
That is a process that is well underway everywhere in EU/US. People are trained to vote like the way they buy a pair of shoes. Considering Italy, we are lucky that they didn't decide to outlaw nuclear power.
You are kidding right. The only thing Java and Javascript have in common is the 4 letters in their name. OK the syntax is "in the family"-ish but the concept of the language is vastly different than any of the language you cite. (plenty of framework try to beat javascript into looking like a class based OO language with various degree of success)
...]. Another problem is that javascript, the core, is implemented by the browser, and even for core feature, browser can behave very differently, eg:15 years old+ language feature like rounding a bloody number. And of course, difficult to dissociate javascript from the rest of its environment: the DOM and all its pain.
The bad wrap for JS is that although it is a neat little language (it is), it has the maturity of a language in beta. You need to have a look at a book like "javascript the good part", especially the chapter about the bad/awful part chapter, realise and cry [eg: read about "this" pointer meaning, arguments pseudo array,
And virtually killed. I mean what Microsoft announce and what they deliver is vastly different world. They may pull us a trick like creating a extra ultra low level Win32 API used inconsistently between the OS, their IDE and Office.
/bitter with MS promises
Then they would provide as promised a HTML5/JS API, but with IE10, that will require Win8 or above, meaning that the developer will need to stay with the Win32 API for another round.
Wait and See what they actually deliver - they probably won't even know until they need to print it on the box.
If that's what you have in mind by working, that is what Robert Martin generally advocate (see the other book called Clean Code): get the stuff working in a way you don't have to worry about the future because your code is clean enough so that you can refactor easily later. Haven't read this one, but I doubt he veered too much of that path.
Now, "working", in management speak, is synonym with "sold". Which cover the above scenario, but also the hacked together prototype written in VBScript by a consultant 5 years ago, converted by an automated tool to F#.Net (for no good reason), tortured to work behind the Company Mandated SOA framework, "tested" by hand by a team of 50 indian developers kept demotivated by stupid targets.
Cleaning up the mess of a hacked together application is tremendously difficult. Budget for improvement are based relative to the cost of the project and other improvements, making it even harder to justify actual cleaning up (hacking is cheap, especially because hacking generally means no testing). When the project is in production with big client, even minor change to stuff like datamodel, internal interface, message format, ... will require from the client a full regression test - which means that there is resistance to change all the way. Then you have backward compatibility with your own broken interface and integration with the rest of the product portfolio which can have vastly different release plan, and then you have to deal with the design problems in other application that "bleeds" into you own (like - hey let use the portfolio position table in the database that store the position in a *double*)
In last 10+ plus developing applications,with one exception, "working" has always meant either hacked together without testing or so legacy that no refactoring is small enough to be possible. A lot of the problem would not have existed to such extend with coder caring about their code. That require skills, and books.
Finding the magic crop to save the world is just another PR line like binging democracy, and the current real life use of GMO are as far from fulfilling that line as you can get.
It would take also some serious motivation for a middle/lower class citizen to either risk changing things or go voluntarily in a confrontation. It takes a certain personality to either be a (not -yet- corrupt) politician or Greenpeace activist. The average citizen would be shitty at the job for the same reason they are not in the street with their gun to change the current government.
The distorted power they have in the society should be balanced by a distorted amount of scrutiny. We are doing already so little of that nowadays that even something as insignificant as what the WSJ is valuable.
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But well, back in reality, I doubt there are any tool in existence that can process the random content of a dropbox and extract some consistent / non-trivial result that may interest a marketer. The only useful info could be contact numbers, email addresses, various accounts, ... that is mostly interesting for spammer, phisher and government bureaucrat/contractors.
"Don't buy a house with a mortgage more than 3x your annual income."
FTFY - If you have the cash, you can buy a house 200x your annual income.
I can understand making a settlement with some witness, so that you can progress investigation. In this case, however, this a case where settlement actually shutdown the investigation altogether. That is not normal, that just mean that if you have enough money, you have more chance than a random dude to avoid justice. Clearly not fair.
There are also settlement because the accused cannot afford to go to justice. (BTW, that is a big failure of a justice system that you cannot defend yourself if the accusation has enough money like any big corp vs John Doe) - but well, Google has billions in his coffer and probably plenty of 1000$/hour lawyer working for it full time. So what is the point of even giving them the option to settle ?
Anyway, I can't believe that there is some self-respecting geek here on slashdot that would not at least find it cool to see the concorde blue prints.
China screw your whole company - affected every employees. However, that's ok because a few of them will be able to retire. There is no more reason to complain about this than against the Banker destroying the economy or corps buying laws - the price was right for them. (and just in case you wonder, I would go 2-3 years in China train them if that bought me and my family financial security for the rest of my life, life taught me that food on the table is a better sleeping aid than good conscience)
Yes because the only people who would be interested in this data are those that already posses a legal method of obtaining it...
If you are worried about those that do not posses legal method to access that data - you should really encrypt your data. The log can only be accessed from you home computer or you mobile phone directly (after hacking it) - if somebody you don't like has unrestricted/uncontrolled access to any of those, there is a lot more stuff you need to be worried about.
There is of course the Private Investigator case hired by your wife that could be borderline possible. In real life, that would be far easier for the PI to stick a GPS tracker under your car and that would give him more precise, more discreet data collection service.
Why does someone who presumably is not an employee of Apple feel so strongly about others who badmouth Apple or its products? That's what is difficult for me to understand.
Actually quite the opposite: why would an Apple employee cares about an insignificant (relatively to Apple target demographic) group of people. The only reasonable reason to care at all about what people on slashdot say is if you think/feel you belong. (I count rabid fanboyism for whatever "cause" in the unreasonable category) . When you think you belong, you start to get tired when the other member of the community start critisising/defending X on a continuous basis with the same empty/idiotic argumentation.
In any case with he high level of anti and pro Apple present, there would be nothing that an Apple PR could really do - I mean sometimes you think that most the post have been written by both Jobs and Ballmer kids.
Of course, that would require a government that regulates for the good of its citizen rather than the corporations. Cloud market is still young, there is some hope that good regulation can be passed.
That's what you get for pricing yourselves out of the market.
Actually that is quite right. Companies moves their production where it is the cheaper and sell where it makes them the most profit. You are free to do the same. Well, except that you cannot buy wherever you want - sorry. But that's ok you can still get a master in another field, learn a foreign culture and move over there ? A company can do that in 3 month, surely a single individual would not take that long. /sarcasm
Seems like times have changed - now it seems that every company is suing all others with dubious patent.
But yeah, unfortunately, experience tells me you are probably right being sarcastic.
Some day, people will learn what "First World Country [wikipedia.org]" actually meant.
FTFY
From your source - line 3:
Since its original definition, the term First World has come to be largely synonymous with developed countries or highly developed countries (depending on which definition is being used).
Google are no angels, but compared with MS they are.
Sure, like a serial killer that killed on 2 persons is an angel compared to one that killed 300. Google is still young and has plenty of potential.
Google is a very scary huge ads company that basically act as the main gatekeeper to internet for most of us. I use Google Chrome, search using Google and mail with GMail - 100% of my web activity goes through Google at some point - if Google turns evil just a little bit, I'm totally owned. Anything that keep them in check is good in my book.
Now, being an average nerd just out of his mother basement, I appreciate the deal and I certainly have a lot more freedom than if I had to fend for myself. For the same reason, I can also appreciate the GPLv3 - it does a lot from the free availability of software, and protect my work strongly and effectively - but it does it in a fashion that has more in common with Apple walled garden than what can be called Freedom (i.e. unlicensed).
It is not defending Microsoft btw - there is enough *direct* evidence that they deserve their reputation - just point out that they can save their money for big time lobbying - the low level astroturfing like this one is covered by volunteers.
Probably a big woosh for me but just in case you are serious: [second is] the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the cesium 133 atom. (from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second)