> A little more patent files like this and USPO will be history.
USPTO. And why would they be? The USPTO is possibly the only government agency that turns a profit. The more patents they shove through, the bigger their profit.
Do you honestly think congress cares? When they're not kissing the executive's ass over the War On Terra, they're fellating whichever lobbyist says that any legislation that causes a 1% hit to a corporation's stock price runs contrary to the founding principles of the country.
No, this patent troll will be crushed only because it overreached. Others will continue to be smarter about it.
Whoah... a counter-argument to the ecological concerns that doesn't read like Rush Limbaugh. Well put.
Really, there's unintended consequences to everything, and it's just smart to plan for them. Sometimes take the actions anyway. Personally I think the "sterile breeding" programs are pretty sensible population control mechanisms, certainly far less destructive than other solutions. The locals depend on the ecology there, it ain't exactly a city with a supermarket every few blocks there.
As for those condemning the "eco-hippies", I find it funny how the same dour grousing people who love to piss in the tree huggers' wheaties (or granola) about how there's no free lunch somehow think that their vigorous solutions are of course the perfect approach and outcome, to which any reservations are hand-wringing whining at best, and murderously callous at worse. We've seen resistant mosquitos come out of spraying, and the usual approach has been to just spray more. Do I really have to explain the consequences of that? Apparently, it seems I do.
Maybe I'm not a "slashdot nerd" then, since I perceive a difference between "interested in video games", and "interested in every last story that hits the pipeline that has anything to do with video games"
Seriously, not all kids are the same. Okay, if you want a relative benchmark: when they're old enough to enjoy it. There. They're still young enough that you can control what games they play and for how long.
I swear, what's with the slashdot obsession over video games?
> XBLA Games were all supposed to fit on a 64MB Memory card
50 megs was the old limit, but it's been 250 megs for some time now. Microsoft is supposedly willing to bump that to 450MB on a case-by-case basis (not sure they've ever had to). They do make 512MB memory cards for people who just won't do the HDD thing...
Your preface is prologue. I've been unable to get it. And there's like a three day window.
Not that I really care. I think Microsoft needs to apologize for this apology. But I just won't be renewing. Hell, at this rate, I may as well cancel outright.
I just set anonymous postings to -1 and move the rightmost bar to the left one notch. Gets rid of pretty much all of 'em. There's worse things in the world to get riled up about than a bunch of giggling simpletons.
I remember the the discussion on IRC that lead to the creation of the === operator. The designers of the language (back when they hung out on IRC) actually did not comprehend the concept of "object identity". I had to eventually resort to calling it a pointer compare, at which time I was told "PHP isn't C, it doesn't have pointers". That was pretty much the end of PHP for me.
I come to bury PHP with a backhoe, not to praise it, but: why on earth does it actually need static initializers? PHP code runs as a script. You just stick the initialization code in the script.
Java. Yes, it's a craptastic language, but you wanted web development, and until you at least know something about JavaEE, if only to have educated reasons to hate it, a good chunk of potential clients see you as swimming in the kiddie pool. Plus, you get to branch to other languages that are actually a pleasure, like Scala.
No, it's not cleaner in the slightest. Now you can't get at the whole array. Unless you want to overload the function. All that boilerplate because the designers of PHP still don't pay attention to basic things like this.
Another workaround is to just use a temporary. Or a different language outright.
Actually, they weren't, and Pepsi was eating their lunch. What Coke failed to realize was was how deep brand identity ran. So when they changed their formula, even though it beat the old formula 2-1 in taste tests, people saw it as tampering with a sacrosanct institution, and thus was a hue and cry raised.
People only like XP in comparison to the versions around it -- no one's actually that loyal to it as they were with Coke.
The whole infallability thing had been tradition as far back as anyone can guess, but it wasn't actually made official until 1869 in the first Vatican Council. The existence of contradictions of course casts doubt on infallability, and if infallability is wrong, then so is the doctrine, made by a fallible pope. Paradox solved. Wasn't that easy?
To my bearded friends from 1998: great work making an already confusing term "Free Software" even more confusing by rebranding it "Open Source Software".. this is the result.
And thanks to you for rigid, dogmatic, inflexibile intransigence and refusal to recognize any deviation from your True Path in a world of absolutes as anything but schism and heresy. Hey look, two can play. I recognize your nick (I've was here originally with a 4-digit UID, with a name I've discarded). I always believed you were above such coarse trolling. You make me sad.
Microsoft never even claimed it was Open Source. Microsoft has two licenses recognized as Free by the FSF. And this sort of restrictive license existed long before RMS bequeathed the very idea of freedom into all our tabula rasa minds.
The prevailing wisdom is that header files that only describe an interface (that is, not C++ that inlines all the logic) are not copyrightable. Actually they're kind of a silly situation in that the header file itself may be copyrighted, but a duplication of all its content does not violate it. Kind of like Pierre Menard's Don Quixote.
The official doctrine of the Catholic Church rejects young-earth creationism, considering the seven-day creation period in the Bible as well as the entire Eden story to be allegory. They even grudgingly accept evolution, though they do try to work "Intelligent Design" into the cracks. The Young-Earth creationists are Evangelical Protestant types, most of whom consider Catholics to be just short of Satanists, mostly for the Pope thing (idolatry I guess) but probably also because of the occasional iota of common sense they exhibit that assaults the absolute literal interpretation of the Bible.
Mind you, the current Pope probably is a literalist right out of the Middle Ages (the office he headed up before becoming Pope was formerly known as The Inquisition) but he couldn't issue an encyclical that countermanded the current doctrine and get away with it. Papal power isn't what it used to be; there's infallability and there's infallability, capische? (better for this one perhaps, verstehen?).
> In the case of many game movies, the game often does have a good plot, but the movie simply doesn't follow it.
Yeah, but you're talking about Dungeon Siege here, perhaps the most uninteractive linear and repetitive game since ProgressQuest. In this game, you literally just walk a single line, automatically attack everything that comes near, automatically pick up loot, and automatically convert it to gold if you don't want it. The only thing that isn't automated is you walking through the paper-thin plot insofar as it can be said to have one.
Crap, I just gave Boll a new movie idea. "ProgressQuest: Fetch Me a Beverage"
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> the level of treason in Washington DC is so high these days
Indeed, but we still keep the chief executive in office.
Leave my country you fucking jackboot thug.
> A little more patent files like this and USPO will be history.
USPTO. And why would they be? The USPTO is possibly the only government agency that turns a profit. The more patents they shove through, the bigger their profit.
Do you honestly think congress cares? When they're not kissing the executive's ass over the War On Terra, they're fellating whichever lobbyist says that any legislation that causes a 1% hit to a corporation's stock price runs contrary to the founding principles of the country.
No, this patent troll will be crushed only because it overreached. Others will continue to be smarter about it.
> It's better to teach a man how to fish than to just give him a fish.
And better yet to let a man fish. Or a woman, as the case may be (kind of insane to not allow the majority of your farm workforce to own property).
Whoah ... a counter-argument to the ecological concerns that doesn't read like Rush Limbaugh. Well put.
Really, there's unintended consequences to everything, and it's just smart to plan for them. Sometimes take the actions anyway. Personally I think the "sterile breeding" programs are pretty sensible population control mechanisms, certainly far less destructive than other solutions. The locals depend on the ecology there, it ain't exactly a city with a supermarket every few blocks there.
As for those condemning the "eco-hippies", I find it funny how the same dour grousing people who love to piss in the tree huggers' wheaties (or granola) about how there's no free lunch somehow think that their vigorous solutions are of course the perfect approach and outcome, to which any reservations are hand-wringing whining at best, and murderously callous at worse. We've seen resistant mosquitos come out of spraying, and the usual approach has been to just spray more. Do I really have to explain the consequences of that? Apparently, it seems I do.
Hey you righteous little fuck, DDT was banned because it was poisonous to EVERYTHING.
People who live in mosquito-infested areas tend to fish a lot. These people like the fish to be, um, there.
Maybe I'm not a "slashdot nerd" then, since I perceive a difference between "interested in video games", and "interested in every last story that hits the pipeline that has anything to do with video games"
At least it's not another "console wars" story.
Seriously, not all kids are the same. Okay, if you want a relative benchmark: when they're old enough to enjoy it. There. They're still young enough that you can control what games they play and for how long.
I swear, what's with the slashdot obsession over video games?
> XBLA Games were all supposed to fit on a 64MB Memory card
50 megs was the old limit, but it's been 250 megs for some time now. Microsoft is supposedly willing to bump that to 450MB on a case-by-case basis (not sure they've ever had to). They do make 512MB memory cards for people who just won't do the HDD thing...
Your preface is prologue. I've been unable to get it. And there's like a three day window.
Not that I really care. I think Microsoft needs to apologize for this apology. But I just won't be renewing. Hell, at this rate, I may as well cancel outright.
I just set anonymous postings to -1 and move the rightmost bar to the left one notch. Gets rid of pretty much all of 'em. There's worse things in the world to get riled up about than a bunch of giggling simpletons.
Now that's what I call AOE.
Though from my POV, WOW is really more of a DOT on my bank account. To say nothing of a debuff on my social life.
I remember the the discussion on IRC that lead to the creation of the === operator. The designers of the language (back when they hung out on IRC) actually did not comprehend the concept of "object identity". I had to eventually resort to calling it a pointer compare, at which time I was told "PHP isn't C, it doesn't have pointers". That was pretty much the end of PHP for me.
> static initializers are missing
I come to bury PHP with a backhoe, not to praise it, but: why on earth does it actually need static initializers? PHP code runs as a script. You just stick the initialization code in the script.
Java. Yes, it's a craptastic language, but you wanted web development, and until you at least know something about JavaEE, if only to have educated reasons to hate it, a good chunk of potential clients see you as swimming in the kiddie pool. Plus, you get to branch to other languages that are actually a pleasure, like Scala.
No, it's not cleaner in the slightest. Now you can't get at the whole array. Unless you want to overload the function. All that boilerplate because the designers of PHP still don't pay attention to basic things like this.
Another workaround is to just use a temporary. Or a different language outright.
> Everyone was happy with normal Coke.
Actually, they weren't, and Pepsi was eating their lunch. What Coke failed to realize was was how deep brand identity ran. So when they changed their formula, even though it beat the old formula 2-1 in taste tests, people saw it as tampering with a sacrosanct institution, and thus was a hue and cry raised.
People only like XP in comparison to the versions around it -- no one's actually that loyal to it as they were with Coke.
The whole infallability thing had been tradition as far back as anyone can guess, but it wasn't actually made official until 1869 in the first Vatican Council. The existence of contradictions of course casts doubt on infallability, and if infallability is wrong, then so is the doctrine, made by a fallible pope. Paradox solved. Wasn't that easy?
> KY Creation museum isn't too far away from here
Yunno, I keep not reading those first two letters as "Kentucky"... I did think that was an odd corporate sponsorship.
> Well, yes, ok, we're insolvent and bankrupt, but we're still reproducing, and demographics are destiny.
You better start learning Farsi then. Just saying...
To my bearded friends from 1998: great work making an already confusing term "Free Software" even more confusing by rebranding it "Open Source Software".. this is the result.
And thanks to you for rigid, dogmatic, inflexibile intransigence and refusal to recognize any deviation from your True Path in a world of absolutes as anything but schism and heresy. Hey look, two can play. I recognize your nick (I've was here originally with a 4-digit UID, with a name I've discarded). I always believed you were above such coarse trolling. You make me sad.
Microsoft never even claimed it was Open Source. Microsoft has two licenses recognized as Free by the FSF. And this sort of restrictive license existed long before RMS bequeathed the very idea of freedom into all our tabula rasa minds.
The prevailing wisdom is that header files that only describe an interface (that is, not C++ that inlines all the logic) are not copyrightable. Actually they're kind of a silly situation in that the header file itself may be copyrighted, but a duplication of all its content does not violate it. Kind of like Pierre Menard's Don Quixote.
The official doctrine of the Catholic Church rejects young-earth creationism, considering the seven-day creation period in the Bible as well as the entire Eden story to be allegory. They even grudgingly accept evolution, though they do try to work "Intelligent Design" into the cracks. The Young-Earth creationists are Evangelical Protestant types, most of whom consider Catholics to be just short of Satanists, mostly for the Pope thing (idolatry I guess) but probably also because of the occasional iota of common sense they exhibit that assaults the absolute literal interpretation of the Bible.
Mind you, the current Pope probably is a literalist right out of the Middle Ages (the office he headed up before becoming Pope was formerly known as The Inquisition) but he couldn't issue an encyclical that countermanded the current doctrine and get away with it. Papal power isn't what it used to be; there's infallability and there's infallability, capische? (better for this one perhaps, verstehen?).
> At least the US isn't willfully self-destructing like Europe...yet...
You seen our national debt? Makes Reagan look like Ross Perot.
Actually it was "EMO!" ... And boy was it.
> In the case of many game movies, the game often does have a good plot, but the movie simply doesn't follow it.
Yeah, but you're talking about Dungeon Siege here, perhaps the most uninteractive linear and repetitive game since ProgressQuest. In this game, you literally just walk a single line, automatically attack everything that comes near, automatically pick up loot, and automatically convert it to gold if you don't want it. The only thing that isn't automated is you walking through the paper-thin plot insofar as it can be said to have one.
Crap, I just gave Boll a new movie idea. "ProgressQuest: Fetch Me a Beverage"