Precisely, and this I think is why we need to erase the developer/user distinction by creating languages and tools which allow USERS to create their own solutions. Then the users BECOME the developers, and make the system they want.
Sigh. People have been blaming Linux precisely because the users were programmers, so it was "hard to use". People have been praising Linux for having "languages and tools which allow USERS to create their own solutions".
Now the applications became more sophisticated, and the users didn't, so you blame Linux because the average user can't figure out C++? Why doesn't the average user create PyQt applications, then? Oh, you mean they don't actually want to do anything, just whine about the software they got for free?
And isn't this exactly what the whole Object-Oriented and Component Programming revolution way back in the 80s was supposed to be about? Reusable code? Why didn't it happen? Why did OOP stay stuck in the 'use objects to build big applications, then ship them as entire systems plus a few shared libraries which are so fragile they have to be centrally managed at the OS level' mode?
Performance. Ever heard of JavaOS? Care to guess why not?
Perhaps I am completely wrong but it seems like China is giving preferential treatment to the Chinese owned competitor to Google, Baidu, by not taking it to task for the same offending practices, even though it holds a lead over Google in searches in China. I certainly would not put it above China to be using government intervention to give favor to Chinese company.
Holy shit, a country is actually protecting itself from the US! Now, if only the EU had a search engine to push...
Maybe we export some corn or something, but digital content of every variety is what we really offer the rest of the world.
What the US has to offer to the rest of the world is oil through USD, which is incidentally the only thing keeping the economy alive since Nixon declared bankruptcy in 1971.
On a related note, Saddam offered to sell oil for EUR too, just before his army started disappearing.
Quite frankly, unless he's actually paying for it, or otherwise actually contributing to child abuse, I really don't care. Simple possession, if not a completely victimless crime, is certainly very close to being one.
Also, what exactly does "child pornography" mean? Does a 17 year old girl qualify? How about a 14 year old boy? I wish I made porn when I was 14...
Anyone who claims to have a "right" to healthcare does not actually believe in the constitution because the 13th amendment outlawed slavery. If you expect to enslave doctors and society in general for the simple reason that you got sick, then not only are you guaranteeing that the already heavily-socialized medical system will become even worse, but you also have no respect for real "human rights".
You, sir, are a moron. In developed countries, universal health care is not a right, but a public service, and we also have a separate tax category slapped on our income.
Tell me again, how is wanting to use a service I've been paying for all my carreer when I need it, "expecting slavery"?
While there is plenty useful information on the Internet, a lot of the useful stuff you find there comes from primary sources (printed or digital) not easily found on the public Internet.
There is an extremely limited subset of those found in any one library. The internet still wins.
Or would you travel 2500 miles to find one library that actually has the book you couldn't find online?
When garage developers out-University the Universities, one must ask if Universities are following their obligations towards learning and understanding. If they are not, honouring those obligations, maybe we should dispose of them and replace them with groups that can.
If I choose to write an Open Source application using my $300 Dell laptop instead of attending a university with the latest and greatest hardware, has the university failed?
Honestly, I don't understand this notion that universities should be the repository of all knowledge and research in the age of the internet. I could have a bigger collection of books in two days (probably less, but factor in the seeders too) than the local university has.
Just because the university has the expensive tools, the cheap ones still work at home.
I would so love to be Virtual Iron, or anyone who got bought out like that. Geez, they buy me out, then tell me, that, I really am not allowed to work on it any more and can just take off for a few years, here's your millions of dollars.
Here's your millions of dollars, we'll keep the hundreds of millions you could've made in the next years if you weren't so damn short-sighted. Now go home.
So if any of these [dekalbmugs.com] people or these people [gwinnettmugs.com] need a liver transplant, they should be front and center in line to get a brand new liver, well ahead of a supportive member of society that regularly pays his contribution to society? That's 2 counties out of 3140 in the US and those are people arrested on a Friday night.
Health care is not the method to settle this. If you don't think people coming out of jail will be productive members of society, suggest fixing the jails so they will. That's what they're there for, aren't they?
If you think basic human rights should not apply to everyone, then expansion of the death sentence is the answer for you. But judging people based on their mugshots is just plain wrong. How many of those look mean only because they just got beat up by a cop having a bad day? Here's one particularly mean fella:
MIGUEL VIGUERAS-GUTIERREZ POWDER SPRINGS RD MARIETTA GA 30064
Admitted: 2009-06-19 22:42:00
Charges: M/V MUST HAVE 2 HEADLIGHTS PARKING ON ROADWAY NO DRIVERS LICENSE
Of-course there is a larger problem with government subsidizing any education system - it drives the education costs up, because universities know that government is there to provide loans, so whatever the costs of education are, anyone can just get this 'mortgage' to pay for it, so there is no incentive to make education any cheaper.
The government should always aim to give the talented people the opportunity to learn something useful. But private universities are not the way to do that.
In more developed countries (flame on!) it goes like this: government owns and runs university, gives free access to those in need, and gives loans to cover their living expenses while they're studying. It's much cheaper for both the government and the student.
Of course you can always have private universities that only exist to make money, but be clear about their roles in society.
This Churchill quote seems appropriate right now: The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
How about this one from Geza Hofi: "In capitalism, people exploit people. In socialism, it's the other way around."
And no need to guess about going abroad: Hungarian politicians haven't seen a Hungarian hospital from the inside since WW2.
It's hard to compare to 'normal' people, because someone like Steve Jobs would have had an team of the very best surgeons working on him, and generally the best medical care that money could buy..
This being Slashdot, that raises interesting questions. Steve's not rich because he was born into a banker family, in fact, he was adopted. He's rich because people bought his products.
So, is it bad if he uses that money to get the kind of treatment you and I can't afford?
Personal security is a myth that rose from the ashes of wishful security.
Passwords are passwords: designed to distinguish those who have the rights from those who don't. If you grant anyone else the right to modify your personal website (except of course those who maintain it under your supervision), you shouldn't be a politician.
Oh, and any information that gets into a buerocratic machine is public from a security point of view. Take my word for it.
I wonder myself whether the defense DELIBERATELY anticipated a huge defeat in not refuting evidence or calling expert witnesses, all in an attempt to "shoot the moon" and get unreasonably high damages awarded which would, as it happened, stir controversy and undermine the RIAA in future venues up the court chain.
It is not the job of the lawyer to change laws, and they know that. And if he didn't defend his client to the full extent of the law, he's going to lose his job pretty quickly.
If you want to change a law, send a letter to Congress, and do some bri^H^H^Hlobbying.
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Precisely, and this I think is why we need to erase the developer/user distinction by creating languages and tools which allow USERS to create their own solutions. Then the users BECOME the developers, and make the system they want.
Sigh. People have been blaming Linux precisely because the users were programmers, so it was "hard to use". People have been praising Linux for having "languages and tools which allow USERS to create their own solutions".
Now the applications became more sophisticated, and the users didn't, so you blame Linux because the average user can't figure out C++? Why doesn't the average user create PyQt applications, then? Oh, you mean they don't actually want to do anything, just whine about the software they got for free?
And isn't this exactly what the whole Object-Oriented and Component Programming revolution way back in the 80s was supposed to be about? Reusable code? Why didn't it happen? Why did OOP stay stuck in the 'use objects to build big applications, then ship them as entire systems plus a few shared libraries which are so fragile they have to be centrally managed at the OS level' mode?
Performance. Ever heard of JavaOS? Care to guess why not?
Moore's law applies to applications, too.
Does automounting count as innovation? MS-DOS had it.
Perhaps I am completely wrong but it seems like China is giving preferential treatment to the Chinese owned competitor to Google, Baidu, by not taking it to task for the same offending practices, even though it holds a lead over Google in searches in China. I certainly would not put it above China to be using government intervention to give favor to Chinese company.
Holy shit, a country is actually protecting itself from the US! Now, if only the EU had a search engine to push...
Maybe we export some corn or something, but digital content of every variety is what we really offer the rest of the world.
What the US has to offer to the rest of the world is oil through USD, which is incidentally the only thing keeping the economy alive since Nixon declared bankruptcy in 1971.
On a related note, Saddam offered to sell oil for EUR too, just before his army started disappearing.
The newspaper is so dead, see? *points at the newspaper*
Like my 92 year old grandfather. Technically still alive, but everyone knows it's only a matter of time.
Since when does the US care about international law?
Yes, I'm sure they read slashdot. After all, they have nothing else to do.
Quite frankly, unless he's actually paying for it, or otherwise actually contributing to child abuse, I really don't care. Simple possession, if not a completely victimless crime, is certainly very close to being one.
Also, what exactly does "child pornography" mean? Does a 17 year old girl qualify? How about a 14 year old boy? I wish I made porn when I was 14...
Yeah. Everyone knows it's spelled Konqueror.
Anyone who claims to have a "right" to healthcare does not actually believe in the constitution because the 13th amendment outlawed slavery. If you expect to enslave doctors and society in general for the simple reason that you got sick, then not only are you guaranteeing that the already heavily-socialized medical system will become even worse, but you also have no respect for real "human rights".
You, sir, are a moron. In developed countries, universal health care is not a right, but a public service, and we also have a separate tax category slapped on our income.
Tell me again, how is wanting to use a service I've been paying for all my carreer when I need it, "expecting slavery"?
While there is plenty useful information on the Internet, a lot of the useful stuff you find there comes from primary sources (printed or digital) not easily found on the public Internet.
There is an extremely limited subset of those found in any one library. The internet still wins.
Or would you travel 2500 miles to find one library that actually has the book you couldn't find online?
When garage developers out-University the Universities, one must ask if Universities are following their obligations towards learning and understanding. If they are not, honouring those obligations, maybe we should dispose of them and replace them with groups that can.
If I choose to write an Open Source application using my $300 Dell laptop instead of attending a university with the latest and greatest hardware, has the university failed?
Honestly, I don't understand this notion that universities should be the repository of all knowledge and research in the age of the internet. I could have a bigger collection of books in two days (probably less, but factor in the seeders too) than the local university has.
Just because the university has the expensive tools, the cheap ones still work at home.
Big internet a holic, but there's always something about halls of books.
Halls of books that didn't make it to the internet, maybe.
Show me one advantage of a book in a library I can download.
I would so love to be Virtual Iron, or anyone who got bought out like that. Geez, they buy me out, then tell me, that, I really am not allowed to work on it any more and can just take off for a few years, here's your millions of dollars.
Here's your millions of dollars, we'll keep the hundreds of millions you could've made in the next years if you weren't so damn short-sighted. Now go home.
I think if the technology becomes cheap, garage biology will be something to deal with whether we like it or not.
We already have that.
Really, if they are THAT good at research, then why not at a university?
Because you shouldn't have to.
So if any of these [dekalbmugs.com] people or these people [gwinnettmugs.com] need a liver transplant, they should be front and center in line to get a brand new liver, well ahead of a supportive member of society that regularly pays his contribution to society? That's 2 counties out of 3140 in the US and those are people arrested on a Friday night.
Health care is not the method to settle this. If you don't think people coming out of jail will be productive members of society, suggest fixing the jails so they will. That's what they're there for, aren't they?
If you think basic human rights should not apply to everyone, then expansion of the death sentence is the answer for you. But judging people based on their mugshots is just plain wrong. How many of those look mean only because they just got beat up by a cop having a bad day? Here's one particularly mean fella:
MIGUEL VIGUERAS-GUTIERREZ
POWDER SPRINGS RD
MARIETTA GA 30064
Admitted: 2009-06-19 22:42:00
Charges: M/V MUST HAVE 2 HEADLIGHTS
PARKING ON ROADWAY
NO DRIVERS LICENSE
Yes, he clearly needs to die in horrible pain.
Of-course there is a larger problem with government subsidizing any education system - it drives the education costs up, because universities know that government is there to provide loans, so whatever the costs of education are, anyone can just get this 'mortgage' to pay for it, so there is no incentive to make education any cheaper.
The government should always aim to give the talented people the opportunity to learn something useful. But private universities are not the way to do that.
In more developed countries (flame on!) it goes like this: government owns and runs university, gives free access to those in need, and gives loans to cover their living expenses while they're studying. It's much cheaper for both the government and the student.
Of course you can always have private universities that only exist to make money, but be clear about their roles in society.
This Churchill quote seems appropriate right now: The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
How about this one from Geza Hofi: "In capitalism, people exploit people. In socialism, it's the other way around."
And no need to guess about going abroad: Hungarian politicians haven't seen a Hungarian hospital from the inside since WW2.
It's hard to compare to 'normal' people, because someone like Steve Jobs would have had an team of the very best surgeons working on him, and generally the best medical care that money could buy..
This being Slashdot, that raises interesting questions. Steve's not rich because he was born into a banker family, in fact, he was adopted. He's rich because people bought his products.
So, is it bad if he uses that money to get the kind of treatment you and I can't afford?
theres was probably a line of apple fanboys queuing to give their livers to steve
Unfortunately, he only needs one. And he needs no other organs.
Are you implying that a person's passwords to their personal accounts on websites are subject to public information requirements?
Because the FBI has maintained that obtaining a person's passwords without their consent is a crime.
Consent is the requirement.
Personal security is a myth that rose from the ashes of wishful security.
Passwords are passwords: designed to distinguish those who have the rights from those who don't. If you grant anyone else the right to modify your personal website (except of course those who maintain it under your supervision), you shouldn't be a politician.
Oh, and any information that gets into a buerocratic machine is public from a security point of view. Take my word for it.
Apparently the feminists won and we're so fucking PC now that there are no males on the internet.
Let's face it: in English, if you talk about someone, you either have to specify his/her gender, or pretend they're more than one person.
I wonder myself whether the defense DELIBERATELY anticipated a huge defeat in not refuting evidence or calling expert witnesses,
all in an attempt to "shoot the moon" and get unreasonably high damages awarded which would, as it happened, stir controversy and
undermine the RIAA in future venues up the court chain.
It is not the job of the lawyer to change laws, and they know that. And if he didn't defend his client to the full extent of the law, he's going to lose his job pretty quickly.
If you want to change a law, send a letter to Congress, and do some bri^H^H^Hlobbying.