opera did tabs right before firefox ever came out- and firefox still doesn't have proper tabbed windows -- because firefox is open source, and open source people don't like the back-end implementation of MDI interfaces, so open source people don't use MDI, despite it being a holy grail in usability for the web
Using almost the same terminology: "cultural icon"
The difference was, I thought it made sense that if one could reasonably prove in court that a copyrighted or trademarked property had become a "cultural icon", all rights to it (but not derivatives) would instantly expire and the whole thing would be free for the public to use.
Imagine if Coca-Cola tried to enforce trademark on "Santa Clause wearing red and white"
Now, you may live in an alternate reality where being an asshole is the number one concern in any situation, but here on Earth, liability is not the only issue when a system has the potential to be compromised.
If my boss asks me to do something which has the potential to destroy the systems I am responsible for, it's not just the ability to run away and shout "not my fault!" in as loud a voice as possible to my next potential employer- see, it turns out I (and most people) like keeping my/their current job.
Meanwhile, you can see how far "though, it wasn't my fault" gets you in a job interview.
Meanwhile, this whole line of thought is completely unrelated to the article, which has nothing to do with protecting the security of a system.
no, SPICE is someone's idea of a clever attempt at manufacturing a cool-sounding acronym based on an extremely short and common word (the only one that's shorter and more common might be ICE, which this is derived from). No one can claim ownership on such a stupid, short, generic acronym. There are at least 20,000 meanings of "ICE", and adding "SP" on the front does not make you special or original. They're both lame, get over it.
This is not nearly as bad as Microsoft calling its product "Windows", or Google calling its javascript library "Closure".
This is a good thing. It's just facebook explicitly letting it be known what has always been true: That information is NOT private and never has been. The way facebook apps work ensures that there is no privacy regarding those details. Admitting such is just honesty.
Breaking down one large step into several smaller steps not only gets around the problem of "a bunch of really long variable names in one place", but also improves readability.
This can be the functional way (lots of small one-time-use functions), or the procedural way (lots of variables turn into fewer variables over a series of smaller steps)
When programming, I can't think of anything more important than the ability of a human to understand what the code is trying to do. I would say this is more important than the code actually doing anything at all.
If naming (variable, function, class, module, whatever) isn't part of your coding standard, you're going to have problems. And pretty much everything else is just an optional "nice to have" (usually to do with spacing).
I am the asshole with the 40-character variable names. Yes, I need to split statements over multiple lines lines sometimes, yes I have more lines of code and it takes me longer to type them, but I think it's very worth it to be able to pick something up months or years later and instantly be able to tell what the hell everything means.
As for spacing, I would absolutely love to format all code very strictly, and reject any commits which don't match an automated formatter exactly (for XML, this is possible, of course), but I've yet to see one which doesn't have really horrible edge-cases involving comments.
the problem with the music industry wasn't "not coming up with a new format", it was ignoring the replacement format which consumers decided to use. The movie industry did this for longer than the music industry, but it's still a problem. Blu-Ray should not exist, but the biggest publisher of all is also a hardware manufacturer.
Hardware manufacturers don't like it when someone comes up with something like say, a computer, which means you can come out with new improved formats which benefits everyone immediately, without the need to buy anything new.
Because Google is: A corporation, out to sell me things. While Government is: A huge flailing idiot with the authority to lock me in prison or kill me.
If Google decides I'm a terrorist pedophile who wants to rob a bank, I'll see ads for cheap airfare (I'm cool with that) unmarked vans full of candy (everyone likes candy by the van-load!) and portable tool-kits (what geek doesn't love such a thing?)
If the Government decides I'm a terrorist pedophile who wants to rob a bank, they have the ability and desire to kill me.
Remember: the innocent have nothing to hide, until the Government changes the definition of "innocent"
You can patent a new type of hammer. If you draw a diagram of the hammer, that diagram is covered by copyright. You can use that diagram in a patent application, in which case the diagram cannot be covered under copyright. If you draw another diagram of the same type of hammer, that new diagram is covered by copyright. The hammer itself, that is, the physical thing that is a hammer, can neither be patented or copyrighted.
The same logic should apply to software:
- You can patent a new type of software algorithm.
- If you write source code implementing that algorithm, that source code is covered by copyright
- You can use that source code in a patent application, in which case the source code cannot be covered under copyright.
- If you write a new implementation of the same algorithm, that new source code is covered by copyright.
- The executable itself, that is, the black-box which tells you at most as little of the implementation details as a hammer would compared to a diagram of the hammer, can neither be patented or copyrighted.
Filesharing is "the perfect crime" in any situation which doesn't involve horrible crippling of networks. There has NEVER been a solid mapping between "person" and "network route", and there never will be on any sane network architecture.
This is yet another bad move on the part of Linden Labs, and it's driving people away. Just wandering and looking when using Emerald reveals: Few people are using the Linden-supplied viewer. Reading the news shows that the OpenGrid is picking up more and more followers, in general people have decided they are sick of the Lindens and they can do better on their own.
XStreet was an example of this: Search in SL sucked, still sucks (though not as bad as it was), and so people independently created online methods of listing and searching for items. The linden response: buy the two most popular ones and shut down one of them. We expected integrated search, automatic listing, elimination of commission when linked to a paid account- but instead we get nothing but another horrible decision to drive users away.
My prediction: this will kill XStreet, and everyone will just switch to some alternative. The most popular alternative will get integrated search and automatic listing added to Emerald (or similar community-made viewers). Commission will probably stay the same, though integrated search and automatic listing could make ads valuable enough for commission to be eliminated.
this basically means "I allow you to install any package which I have signed. You don't need to log in as a more-powerful user to do so, because I have already pre-approved this action, just as if I added the specific command to the sudoers file with no password" The default signature is that of redhat, but there's no reason to expect the same technique couldn't be used for other signatures. Sounds like a good idea, especially for a corporate environment (single deployment, but if some people need to install Eclipse, they don't need to contact support to do so)
The next step along the line is to tie this into the existing "that command doesn't exist, install Foo to use it", to turn that into "Foo isn't installed, do you want to install it?" and a (sorry) windows-style "how recently was this used?"/auto-remove-during-updates and make the whole operating system feel entirely seamless in terms of application usage.
The awesome bar, and most of the other firefox bloat, should be plugins. Firefox had this great plugin architecture which everyone and their dog used- except the firefox devs. Why doesn't firefox ship with an array of "default" plugins, all of which can be disabled? There's no need for something like awesomebar to be core, is there?
Actually, forget Freecycle, you probably already have an old CRT laying around somewhere that you just don't want to use because it takes up so much space.
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Have you never been to /. before? Of course they can.
opera did tabs right before firefox ever came out- and firefox still doesn't have proper tabbed windows -- because firefox is open source, and open source people don't like the back-end implementation of MDI interfaces, so open source people don't use MDI, despite it being a holy grail in usability for the web
Using almost the same terminology: "cultural icon"
The difference was, I thought it made sense that if one could reasonably prove in court that a copyrighted or trademarked property had become a "cultural icon", all rights to it (but not derivatives) would instantly expire and the whole thing would be free for the public to use.
Imagine if Coca-Cola tried to enforce trademark on "Santa Clause wearing red and white"
yes, failed technologies of the 1950s, and 1980s, with no improvements to the process, those are only for people who are ready for change.
Polarized lenses, that would at least be novel.
head/eye tracking and automatic image correction for a single user, that would be fun to talk about.
"Oh look, they're trying something nobody wanted thirty years ago" is not new technology.
Now, you may live in an alternate reality where being an asshole is the number one concern in any situation, but here on Earth, liability is not the only issue when a system has the potential to be compromised.
If my boss asks me to do something which has the potential to destroy the systems I am responsible for, it's not just the ability to run away and shout "not my fault!" in as loud a voice as possible to my next potential employer- see, it turns out I (and most people) like keeping my/their current job.
Meanwhile, you can see how far "though, it wasn't my fault" gets you in a job interview.
Meanwhile, this whole line of thought is completely unrelated to the article, which has nothing to do with protecting the security of a system.
no, SPICE is someone's idea of a clever attempt at manufacturing a cool-sounding acronym based on an extremely short and common word (the only one that's shorter and more common might be ICE, which this is derived from).
No one can claim ownership on such a stupid, short, generic acronym. There are at least 20,000 meanings of "ICE", and adding "SP" on the front does not make you special or original. They're both lame, get over it.
This is not nearly as bad as Microsoft calling its product "Windows", or Google calling its javascript library "Closure".
If you don't have it, get it now. Child-friendly, and great for adults too.
that option never did anything meaningful. So, yes, a meaningless checkbox is no longer there.
This is a good thing. It's just facebook explicitly letting it be known what has always been true: That information is NOT private and never has been. The way facebook apps work ensures that there is no privacy regarding those details. Admitting such is just honesty.
rave + sound quality concerns.. several things seem wrong with that
Breaking down one large step into several smaller steps not only gets around the problem of "a bunch of really long variable names in one place", but also improves readability.
This can be the functional way (lots of small one-time-use functions), or the procedural way (lots of variables turn into fewer variables over a series of smaller steps)
When programming, I can't think of anything more important than the ability of a human to understand what the code is trying to do. I would say this is more important than the code actually doing anything at all.
for people who think it's not high-quality unless you can hear the artifacts of how low-quality the recording is.
If naming (variable, function, class, module, whatever) isn't part of your coding standard, you're going to have problems.
And pretty much everything else is just an optional "nice to have" (usually to do with spacing).
I am the asshole with the 40-character variable names. Yes, I need to split statements over multiple lines lines sometimes, yes I have more lines of code and it takes me longer to type them, but I think it's very worth it to be able to pick something up months or years later and instantly be able to tell what the hell everything means.
As for spacing, I would absolutely love to format all code very strictly, and reject any commits which don't match an automated formatter exactly (for XML, this is possible, of course), but I've yet to see one which doesn't have really horrible edge-cases involving comments.
the problem with the music industry wasn't "not coming up with a new format", it was ignoring the replacement format which consumers decided to use. The movie industry did this for longer than the music industry, but it's still a problem. Blu-Ray should not exist, but the biggest publisher of all is also a hardware manufacturer.
Hardware manufacturers don't like it when someone comes up with something like say, a computer, which means you can come out with new improved formats which benefits everyone immediately, without the need to buy anything new.
Because Google is: A corporation, out to sell me things.
While Government is: A huge flailing idiot with the authority to lock me in prison or kill me.
If Google decides I'm a terrorist pedophile who wants to rob a bank, I'll see ads for cheap airfare (I'm cool with that) unmarked vans full of candy (everyone likes candy by the van-load!) and portable tool-kits (what geek doesn't love such a thing?)
If the Government decides I'm a terrorist pedophile who wants to rob a bank, they have the ability and desire to kill me.
Remember: the innocent have nothing to hide, until the Government changes the definition of "innocent"
please re-read the post, you seem to have missed the word "should"
You can patent a new type of hammer.
If you draw a diagram of the hammer, that diagram is covered by copyright.
You can use that diagram in a patent application, in which case the diagram cannot be covered under copyright.
If you draw another diagram of the same type of hammer, that new diagram is covered by copyright.
The hammer itself, that is, the physical thing that is a hammer, can neither be patented or copyrighted.
The same logic should apply to software:
- You can patent a new type of software algorithm.
- If you write source code implementing that algorithm, that source code is covered by copyright
- You can use that source code in a patent application, in which case the source code cannot be covered under copyright.
- If you write a new implementation of the same algorithm, that new source code is covered by copyright.
- The executable itself, that is, the black-box which tells you at most as little of the implementation details as a hammer would compared to a diagram of the hammer, can neither be patented or copyrighted.
haha! You're just a software engineer? I'm a supreme senior software analyst advisor head of the developmental engineering analytics division!
Filesharing is "the perfect crime" in any situation which doesn't involve horrible crippling of networks. There has NEVER been a solid mapping between "person" and "network route", and there never will be on any sane network architecture.
Your attention is worth $150 an hour, and you can't even focus it enough to ignore ads you don't care about? Shit, mine must be worth BILLIONS!
This is yet another bad move on the part of Linden Labs, and it's driving people away.
Just wandering and looking when using Emerald reveals: Few people are using the Linden-supplied viewer. Reading the news shows that the OpenGrid is picking up more and more followers, in general people have decided they are sick of the Lindens and they can do better on their own.
XStreet was an example of this: Search in SL sucked, still sucks (though not as bad as it was), and so people independently created online methods of listing and searching for items. The linden response: buy the two most popular ones and shut down one of them. We expected integrated search, automatic listing, elimination of commission when linked to a paid account-
but instead we get nothing but another horrible decision to drive users away.
My prediction: this will kill XStreet, and everyone will just switch to some alternative. The most popular alternative will get integrated search and automatic listing added to Emerald (or similar community-made viewers). Commission will probably stay the same, though integrated search and automatic listing could make ads valuable enough for commission to be eliminated.
this basically means "I allow you to install any package which I have signed. You don't need to log in as a more-powerful user to do so, because I have already pre-approved this action, just as if I added the specific command to the sudoers file with no password"
The default signature is that of redhat, but there's no reason to expect the same technique couldn't be used for other signatures. Sounds like a good idea, especially for a corporate environment (single deployment, but if some people need to install Eclipse, they don't need to contact support to do so)
The next step along the line is to tie this into the existing "that command doesn't exist, install Foo to use it", to turn that into "Foo isn't installed, do you want to install it?" and a (sorry) windows-style "how recently was this used?"/auto-remove-during-updates and make the whole operating system feel entirely seamless in terms of application usage.
This is a good thing.
The awesome bar, and most of the other firefox bloat, should be plugins. Firefox had this great plugin architecture which everyone and their dog used- except the firefox devs.
Why doesn't firefox ship with an array of "default" plugins, all of which can be disabled? There's no need for something like awesomebar to be core, is there?
Actually, forget Freecycle, you probably already have an old CRT laying around somewhere that you just don't want to use because it takes up so much space.
Sam Hughes will be so disappointed