If only countries took the position of the Songwriters Association of Canada: Pay a small monthly fee and pirating Canadian music is legal for you, and you can opt-out of the fee if you want. But even Canada doesn't agree with it's songwriters.
I guess that's just wishful thinking though. It seems that even if everyone (including the songwriters) want this, large corporations will still find a way to lobby the government so that they can support their tactics of bullying the consumer. And that's what it comes down to in most cases: large corporations and their government involvement.
"Should I suck it up and learn to do all my programming in C++/Java/(insert other well-supported, popular language here) and unlearn ten years of philosophy, or is there hope for the multi-language development process?"
No, DON'T unlearn ten years of philosophy. DO learn to do programming in C++/Java/(insert other, imperative programming language here).
Simply by learning a new language, you should not lose abilities and ideals you gained with others (goes for scripting too). You should build on your previous experiences. Experience in functional programming languages (and scripting) goes a long way for your ability to efficiently and effectively use an imperative language. This is why a lot of colleges and universities are starting to teach Scheme as an introductory language instead of Java.
There is hope for a multi-language development process, just make sure that your capable with the languages that are more prevalent
Hmm... I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic or not.
As far as learning programming goes, learning semantics is the most important thing. Once a person knows how to program they can quickly adapt to varying syntax's and styles. Why do you think it's so easy to move from Java to C++ or from C++ to PHP? The syntax changes a whole lot more than deprecating #includes, yet it's very easy to adapt. In fact, many upper-year programming courses are taught in a way that isn't designed for a specific language for that reason.
A book that would teach the prisoners how to program in general would be very beneficial, but then they would need an accompanying book to apply that knowledge with a language. So, you could either get them a book on programming in general and a book on a language, or you could just get something like an intro to Java book that would include all of the semantics and basics for programming as well as a good introduction to a language that is commonly used by first time programmers.
paranoid schizophrenics, want to help me out here?
I believe what you're describing is Fox News. Oh wait, and they're the source of the article. Hmm.
Credibility of journalism and reporting: 0.
Amount I trust Fox's version of the story: 0.
Personally, I'm going to wait until some sort of legitimate news organization gets some data. Preferably one that doesn't like to fear monger about other countries based on political biases.
Thank-you for trolling me.
With regards to the following:
Working at the local peecee shop or in your mom's basement doesn't count.
It's not the local PC shop. It's AMD.
Another thing: why do you think that Intel and AMD release unlocked CPUs? Obviously they care about overclocking.
I don't really know why there's a sudden flood of people trolling overclockers. Overclocking is a legitimate way to gain more frame rates. For my job I often adjust clock settings on CPUs for benchmark tests, and it's not as if the CPUs that are overclocked weren't designed to do so.
The reason AMD processors used to be popular was that they appealed to enthusiasts and they had the ability for overclocking more so than Intel.
For a company that sits in the lead of the processor market, putting out a high-end CPU that does not allow for enthusiasts to have their way, is kind of lazy in my opinion. Maybe that's a bit much, but they could at least try to cater to the kind of customer that would purchase a high-end part.
Yeah, I think the point is now that the DS has an SD slot you won't have to have a homebrew cartridge in order to share data between your Wii and DS.
A lot of the new add-ons the the DS are excellent, and they seem to be jumping ahead of homebrew in order to prevent piracy.
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I can agree with having an age for when they can use the internet, but, regardless of age, I think that having a domain name is a good idea.
Getting something similar to [lastname].com for the family and then having sub-domains for kids is good. This way you can get something like Spam Assassin running to protect yourselves from questionable emails, and you have more control over the service. Plus, you can get Google Apps for your domain if they want an easy-to-use interface.
The main reason for this being a good idea is that later in life your child will likely appreciate having their own domain and it is good professionally for things like portfolios and work-appropriate contact email addresses.
Also, there's the added bonus of other kids thinking that your kid is cool for having his own "website".
Lenin would have brought Russia through a smooth transition into a new population-driven communist state, until he got shot and Stalin forcefully took position as leader. Stalin is the one who brought on "the crap they endured".
Basically, you will see an increase in memory usage early on using the browser, but over time the browser's usage will not bloat as much. So, for extended use Firefox/Gecko could use more memory than Chrome, but for short periods of browsing Firefox/Gecko will be more memory efficient.
Also (comic, p.4) it's using different processes, not threads.
"...how it works as an anti-Linux move on Microsoft's part, and what some of the Open Sourcers are going to do about having Microsoft as a rather untrustworthy partner."
I'm not sure why this would be said to be an anti-Linux move. I realize that this might be what people sense with regards to the contribution, but like the article said the "Apache license is practically a no-strings gift". With Microsoft's new talk of becoming pro open source, this might become like Apple's contributions to BSD. You don't here anything bad about Apple with their use of BSD, but at every chance possible commenters are willing to frame MS in a bit light.
I just wanted to point out that this type of news should be addressed as unbiased as possible, as Slashdot isn't exactly respected as a home of unbiased views or anything.
I would argue that this is ground breaking because with each new piece of hardware is hacked to run Mac, Apple loses hardware some hardware sales (maybe not so much with this one) and it loses it's whole "Macs have superior design" thing (not that they actually do).
The thing is that if Apple started offering Mac on more than Apple hardware (as one commenter suggested) then they would lose a lot of hardware sales. Apple's hardware isn't superior, it just looks nice. It's like going to a car dealer and saying, "I want the red one" without even looking at the make and model or specifications. More important than specifications here is the make and model. Apple doesn't even manufacture it's own hardware, Asus and Quanta do (among others) and coincidentally these companies also manufacture hardware for PCs.
It's not as if Apple's hardware is superior (if what I've been reading online is any representation it isn't at all), it's just that Apple gets to bundle their software with a shiny new package that "just works" because it's 100% compatible with their hardware and everything compliments each other with Apple products. When Mac starts running on other hardware there will be issues, just look at the number of Windows Vista issues cause solely by bad nVidia drivers.
They asked for a game they could play on a laptop connected to the TV. I like the Wii and all, but if you can play a flash game on a Wii you can definitely play it on a PC.
Are you kidding me? The kid's an idiot anyways if he's unable to respect math and science just because he believes another theory.
I'm a Christian that believes in creationism. Does that mean I don't respect math and science? Hell no. I've been taught all throughout my Christian education to respect math an science as the truth and even to realize the validity of the provable and demonstrated portions of the theory of evolution. However, I'm not going to believe in evolution as a theory of our existence because there are just too many holes and contradictions with other science to believe it. The reason I don't believe in evolution as a theory of existence is not because of some distrust in science or because I've been told the avoid it.
Christians aren't supposed to be stubborn and unwilling to look into things, we're supposed to test our faith constantly.
[1 Thessalonians 5:21]
"Test everything. Hold on to the good."
[James 1:3]
"because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance."
Yes, suddenly he's a 14 year-old girl for using an acronym.
He's likely trying to appeal to the audience here, or maybe just get a laugh. Either way, it shouldn't be assumed that he's immature based on his use of an acronym.
I agree with you in that the command line is amazing and should be kept, but we should not have to always deal with it. A good example would be some installers in Linux that are completely GUI based and meant to be user-friendly, but in order to launch them you have to chmod them or whatever and then run it. Basically, if people expect Linux to be adopted and to still be Linux at heart, the command line should exist and not be crippled, but developers should create more user-friendly apps that focus on the UI and useabiliy. That's why people are switching to Macs, apparently they "just work" (I disagree, but that's another topic) and Linux needs to do this too.
That is one of the stupidest mentalities I have ever seen, read, or heard of. Someone who values the life of animals more than the life of human beings and is willing to kill people to keep animals from being used for research. You have to be a sick person to agree with that kind of an idea.
Why does Slashdot post this garbage... obviously a news post like this is going to attract comments where people bash christians and treat them like idiots, not to mention it contradicts previous studies... so either Slashdot thought that christians could use a good bashing or they're not exactly the "brightest of the bunch." If this were bashing a minority that was more outspoken and was unafraid to use the justice system this would be taken down (maybe not soon enough), but all this article is is an excuse for people to treat others like morons.
How credible is this... Did they have an unbiased group of researchers? What method did they use for collecting the data? and How many christians did they actually collect prayer data from? Were the people praying part of a religious group or were they non-believers praying as a "last hope"? This study can be flawed in so many ways it would be stupid to put ANY trust in it at all.
You guys need to get some respect, seriously... I think your beliefs in cults, the occult, new age, pantheism, and atheism the are flawed, and you think my belief in God is flawed... just get over it and move on with your life... or at least look into it and test it in detail.
Think of this... WHAT IF IT'S TRUE?... just look into it, don't bother bashing something if you've already prejudged it by it's "cover" and not taken any deeper looks into it... take just a little time in your long life to look at it with someone; I think what you'll find is much more than what the "cover" presents (and I don't mean just read the Bible, look at Scientific FACT... archaelogical evidence, dates and times corresponding to the timeline (in a shorter amount of years) most atheists believe in, flawed carbon-dating tests that time and evolutionary theories are based on, etc...)
There was an article in National Geographic once of a man who had claimed that he found a bone from millions of years ago, and scientists studied it and carbon-dated it and came to the conclusion that it was from hundreds of millions of years ago. Later the same man confessed that he had simply microwaved the bone. The next month National Geographic had a note at the back of the magazine stating that the previous article had been flawed and that the bone was microwaved. Doesn't that make you question things a little? Obviously this scientific basis forming the estimation of a "13-15 billion year old" universe is very flawed!
From the first comment: "But when it proves that the earth is round, that the universe is 13-15 billion years old and that prayer doesn't really do anything, they think its hogwash."
One last question...
What if your world as you see it is flat and mine is round?
This is stupid there is still no solid scientific evidence of this working, besides where would the matter come from that caused the "Big Bang"? This theory is pretty far-fetched and should have been rejected years ago!
When I read this article I immediately thought, "Well, if Sony is going to be an idiot and screw with my computer allowing programs (and potentially viruses) to be hidden from me using $sys$, then I'm never buying a Sony CD containing this on it again."
Right after that I thought... "I wonder how many other people are thinking the same thing right now?"
Then it struck me, isn't Sony just going to kill their CD sales among the Nerd community who know what kind of crap Sony's trying to pull. On top of that aren't they just allowing for viruses to spread among the computer illiterate (by that I mean people who don't pay attention to this kind of thing), they probably won't download the patch... and then, they'll be screwed.
On another note... I hope Sony gets screwed over on this one... maybe they'll be required to change the software.
Yah... it doesn't matter who it's aimed at! It just matters that the bill exists and could have severe effects on virtually any search utility. I think that this bill is just another stupid thing that our (well my government anyways) government thought up, I mean what, did they take a break from picking their noses and arguing and say, "Hey, maybe we should so some... like... work or something, you know the stuff they pay us to do." And then they thought of another dumb idea for which they have no clue what they are talking about. If this bill is passed it will only confirm my beliefs that 1/2 of the politicians in my country are idiots (excluding some conservatives... and I guess 1, maybe 2 liberals.)
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I think you forgot to say something. Your comment would close out nicely with the classic: "Get off my lawn!"
If only countries took the position of the Songwriters Association of Canada: Pay a small monthly fee and pirating Canadian music is legal for you, and you can opt-out of the fee if you want. But even Canada doesn't agree with it's songwriters.
I guess that's just wishful thinking though. It seems that even if everyone (including the songwriters) want this, large corporations will still find a way to lobby the government so that they can support their tactics of bullying the consumer. And that's what it comes down to in most cases: large corporations and their government involvement.
"Should I suck it up and learn to do all my programming in C++/Java/(insert other well-supported, popular language here) and unlearn ten years of philosophy, or is there hope for the multi-language development process?"
No, DON'T unlearn ten years of philosophy. DO learn to do programming in C++/Java/(insert other, imperative programming language here).
Simply by learning a new language, you should not lose abilities and ideals you gained with others (goes for scripting too). You should build on your previous experiences. Experience in functional programming languages (and scripting) goes a long way for your ability to efficiently and effectively use an imperative language. This is why a lot of colleges and universities are starting to teach Scheme as an introductory language instead of Java.
There is hope for a multi-language development process, just make sure that your capable with the languages that are more prevalent
Hmm... I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic or not.
As far as learning programming goes, learning semantics is the most important thing. Once a person knows how to program they can quickly adapt to varying syntax's and styles. Why do you think it's so easy to move from Java to C++ or from C++ to PHP? The syntax changes a whole lot more than deprecating #includes, yet it's very easy to adapt. In fact, many upper-year programming courses are taught in a way that isn't designed for a specific language for that reason.
A book that would teach the prisoners how to program in general would be very beneficial, but then they would need an accompanying book to apply that knowledge with a language. So, you could either get them a book on programming in general and a book on a language, or you could just get something like an intro to Java book that would include all of the semantics and basics for programming as well as a good introduction to a language that is commonly used by first time programmers.
I believe what you're describing is Fox News. Oh wait, and they're the source of the article. Hmm.
Credibility of journalism and reporting: 0.
Amount I trust Fox's version of the story: 0.
Personally, I'm going to wait until some sort of legitimate news organization gets some data. Preferably one that doesn't like to fear monger about other countries based on political biases.
Thank-you for trolling me. With regards to the following:
It's not the local PC shop. It's AMD. Another thing: why do you think that Intel and AMD release unlocked CPUs? Obviously they care about overclocking.
I don't really know why there's a sudden flood of people trolling overclockers. Overclocking is a legitimate way to gain more frame rates. For my job I often adjust clock settings on CPUs for benchmark tests, and it's not as if the CPUs that are overclocked weren't designed to do so.
The reason AMD processors used to be popular was that they appealed to enthusiasts and they had the ability for overclocking more so than Intel.
For a company that sits in the lead of the processor market, putting out a high-end CPU that does not allow for enthusiasts to have their way, is kind of lazy in my opinion. Maybe that's a bit much, but they could at least try to cater to the kind of customer that would purchase a high-end part.
Yeah, I think the point is now that the DS has an SD slot you won't have to have a homebrew cartridge in order to share data between your Wii and DS.
A lot of the new add-ons the the DS are excellent, and they seem to be jumping ahead of homebrew in order to prevent piracy.
I can agree with having an age for when they can use the internet, but, regardless of age, I think that having a domain name is a good idea.
Getting something similar to [lastname].com for the family and then having sub-domains for kids is good. This way you can get something like Spam Assassin running to protect yourselves from questionable emails, and you have more control over the service. Plus, you can get Google Apps for your domain if they want an easy-to-use interface.
The main reason for this being a good idea is that later in life your child will likely appreciate having their own domain and it is good professionally for things like portfolios and work-appropriate contact email addresses.
Also, there's the added bonus of other kids thinking that your kid is cool for having his own "website".
Lenin would have brought Russia through a smooth transition into a new population-driven communist state, until he got shot and Stalin forcefully took position as leader. Stalin is the one who brought on "the crap they endured".
Basically, you will see an increase in memory usage early on using the browser, but over time the browser's usage will not bloat as much. So, for extended use Firefox/Gecko could use more memory than Chrome, but for short periods of browsing Firefox/Gecko will be more memory efficient.
Also (comic, p.4) it's using different processes, not threads.
I'm not sure why this would be said to be an anti-Linux move. I realize that this might be what people sense with regards to the contribution, but like the article said the "Apache license is practically a no-strings gift". With Microsoft's new talk of becoming pro open source, this might become like Apple's contributions to BSD. You don't here anything bad about Apple with their use of BSD, but at every chance possible commenters are willing to frame MS in a bit light.
I just wanted to point out that this type of news should be addressed as unbiased as possible, as Slashdot isn't exactly respected as a home of unbiased views or anything.
I would argue that this is ground breaking because with each new piece of hardware is hacked to run Mac, Apple loses hardware some hardware sales (maybe not so much with this one) and it loses it's whole "Macs have superior design" thing (not that they actually do).
The thing is that if Apple started offering Mac on more than Apple hardware (as one commenter suggested) then they would lose a lot of hardware sales. Apple's hardware isn't superior, it just looks nice. It's like going to a car dealer and saying, "I want the red one" without even looking at the make and model or specifications. More important than specifications here is the make and model. Apple doesn't even manufacture it's own hardware, Asus and Quanta do (among others) and coincidentally these companies also manufacture hardware for PCs.
It's not as if Apple's hardware is superior (if what I've been reading online is any representation it isn't at all), it's just that Apple gets to bundle their software with a shiny new package that "just works" because it's 100% compatible with their hardware and everything compliments each other with Apple products. When Mac starts running on other hardware there will be issues, just look at the number of Windows Vista issues cause solely by bad nVidia drivers.
They asked for a game they could play on a laptop connected to the TV. I like the Wii and all, but if you can play a flash game on a Wii you can definitely play it on a PC.
Better solution: don't use Safari.
This browser is the root of numerous OS X exploits, and it is, overall, not a good browser. Besides, did you really need your text blurred that much?
http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-2.0.0.14&os=osx&lang=en-US
Are you kidding me? The kid's an idiot anyways if he's unable to respect math and science just because he believes another theory.
I'm a Christian that believes in creationism. Does that mean I don't respect math and science? Hell no. I've been taught all throughout my Christian education to respect math an science as the truth and even to realize the validity of the provable and demonstrated portions of the theory of evolution. However, I'm not going to believe in evolution as a theory of our existence because there are just too many holes and contradictions with other science to believe it. The reason I don't believe in evolution as a theory of existence is not because of some distrust in science or because I've been told the avoid it.
Christians aren't supposed to be stubborn and unwilling to look into things, we're supposed to test our faith constantly.
[1 Thessalonians 5:21]
"Test everything. Hold on to the good."
[James 1:3]
"because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance."
It's not as if Christians don't believe in evolution, they just don't believe that we evolved from a single-celled organism in the primordial soup.
Yes, suddenly he's a 14 year-old girl for using an acronym. He's likely trying to appeal to the audience here, or maybe just get a laugh. Either way, it shouldn't be assumed that he's immature based on his use of an acronym.
I agree with you in that the command line is amazing and should be kept, but we should not have to always deal with it. A good example would be some installers in Linux that are completely GUI based and meant to be user-friendly, but in order to launch them you have to chmod them or whatever and then run it. Basically, if people expect Linux to be adopted and to still be Linux at heart, the command line should exist and not be crippled, but developers should create more user-friendly apps that focus on the UI and useabiliy. That's why people are switching to Macs, apparently they "just work" (I disagree, but that's another topic) and Linux needs to do this too.
Dang... I was beat... but seriously Die Bold is teh suxorz!
That is one of the stupidest mentalities I have ever seen, read, or heard of. Someone who values the life of animals more than the life of human beings and is willing to kill people to keep animals from being used for research. You have to be a sick person to agree with that kind of an idea.
Why does Slashdot post this garbage... obviously a news post like this is going to attract comments where people bash christians and treat them like idiots, not to mention it contradicts previous studies... so either Slashdot thought that christians could use a good bashing or they're not exactly the "brightest of the bunch." If this were bashing a minority that was more outspoken and was unafraid to use the justice system this would be taken down (maybe not soon enough), but all this article is is an excuse for people to treat others like morons.
How credible is this... Did they have an unbiased group of researchers? What method did they use for collecting the data? and How many christians did they actually collect prayer data from? Were the people praying part of a religious group or were they non-believers praying as a "last hope"? This study can be flawed in so many ways it would be stupid to put ANY trust in it at all.
You guys need to get some respect, seriously... I think your beliefs in cults, the occult, new age, pantheism, and atheism the are flawed, and you think my belief in God is flawed... just get over it and move on with your life... or at least look into it and test it in detail.
Think of this... WHAT IF IT'S TRUE?... just look into it, don't bother bashing something if you've already prejudged it by it's "cover" and not taken any deeper looks into it... take just a little time in your long life to look at it with someone; I think what you'll find is much more than what the "cover" presents (and I don't mean just read the Bible, look at Scientific FACT... archaelogical evidence, dates and times corresponding to the timeline (in a shorter amount of years) most atheists believe in, flawed carbon-dating tests that time and evolutionary theories are based on, etc...)
There was an article in National Geographic once of a man who had claimed that he found a bone from millions of years ago, and scientists studied it and carbon-dated it and came to the conclusion that it was from hundreds of millions of years ago. Later the same man confessed that he had simply microwaved the bone. The next month National Geographic had a note at the back of the magazine stating that the previous article had been flawed and that the bone was microwaved. Doesn't that make you question things a little? Obviously this scientific basis forming the estimation of a "13-15 billion year old" universe is very flawed!
From the first comment: "But when it proves that the earth is round, that the universe is 13-15 billion years old and that prayer doesn't really do anything, they think its hogwash."
One last question...
What if your world as you see it is flat and mine is round?
-avanderveen
This is stupid there is still no solid scientific evidence of this working, besides where would the matter come from that caused the "Big Bang"? This theory is pretty far-fetched and should have been rejected years ago!
Right after that I thought... "I wonder how many other people are thinking the same thing right now?"
Then it struck me, isn't Sony just going to kill their CD sales among the Nerd community who know what kind of crap Sony's trying to pull. On top of that aren't they just allowing for viruses to spread among the computer illiterate (by that I mean people who don't pay attention to this kind of thing), they probably won't download the patch... and then, they'll be screwed.
On another note... I hope Sony gets screwed over on this one... maybe they'll be required to change the software.
Yah... it doesn't matter who it's aimed at! It just matters that the bill exists and could have severe effects on virtually any search utility. I think that this bill is just another stupid thing that our (well my government anyways) government thought up, I mean what, did they take a break from picking their noses and arguing and say, "Hey, maybe we should so some... like... work or something, you know the stuff they pay us to do." And then they thought of another dumb idea for which they have no clue what they are talking about. If this bill is passed it will only confirm my beliefs that 1/2 of the politicians in my country are idiots (excluding some conservatives... and I guess 1, maybe 2 liberals.)