Filtered Internet is better then no internet for a lot of people.
That's fine. But does that mean the government has to, or should, provide internet service directly to those people? I'd much rather see them fund a program to provide freely available internet service to public facilities like libraries (which I think would cost less than the "free internet for all" plan) and spend the rest of the money they would have budgeted for this program elsewhere (say on improving said libraries, or our education system.) People get free access to the Internet (at least during the day; admittedly one drawback of this plan as compared to the FCC proposal) and schools or libraries get a few extra bucks in the deal.
Can you really not see possibilities for resolving corporate censorship that don't involve murder?
I can. If it only takes three complaints to require an ISP to kick off a customer, that should hold whether that customer is an individual or, say, the business connection of a film studio, right? Did the article say anything about whether the complaint had to be a sworn statement (i.e. "under penalty of perjury") or not? If not, well, I think there are more than a few people who would be willing to turn the letter of the law against the studios.
let's have a look at the innards of my son's xbox crystal which he just drowned in orange-flavoured soda...
HDD: Seagate. No.
So you're saying that Microsoft didn't build the Xbox because it was built out of components from Microsoft suppliers? Then I suppose you want to credit STMicroelectronics and others as the manufacturer of that "Seagate" HDD? [Yes, I know the article's old, but it was the first one I found mentioning one of Seagate's suppliers and I didn't feel like searching for a more recent one.]
I think you'd be hard-pressed today to find anything whose creation (and the creation of all its subparts) could be credited to one individual or company.
Let's use a different analogy. You rent one half of a house from your landlord. The person who rents the other half adopts a puppy, who uses your flower garden as a bathroom. Your fellow renter refuses to train their puppy to avoid ruining your garden, despite repeated requests to do so. So you take pictures of your fellow renter with their dog and hand them over to your landlord, who terminates your fellow renter's lease for violating the "no pets" clause of the lease.
So let me make sure I understand... this is basically the EU equivalent of a United States Senator [Marco Cappato, a Liberal member of the European Parliament] asking the House of Representatives [the European Council] for a contract the House negotiated on behalf of the government and getting denied?
It sounds like you may have jumped or been pushed into the implementation stage early. The first step is to generate and agree upon the requirements for your application. Once you as the developer and your client know what your application will do (and more importantly what it will not do) you will be able to decide whether or not the code you want to reuse will satisfy your requirements (or can be tweaked to do so) or if you'll be better off building your own.
Using a quote from the article: "It's starting to look like I would have saved myself a whole lot of time if I had written the database transaction using JDBC instead of Hibernate -- now that I'm married to this object model framework, some of this stuff doesn't look doable." If you and the client had sat down at the beginning of the project and described what the application must do, must not do, and what the client would like it to do (or not to do) would you have realized before getting "married to this object model framework" that some of the requirements would be hard or impossible to satisfy?
Be careful, complexity and fun aren't always positively correlated. For instance, Tetris and Solitaire are fairly simple games, but I don't want to guess how many person-centuries have been spent playing those since they came out on computers or game consoles [and I'm just looking at those two as electronic games; the amount of time spent increases significantly, probably to units of person-millenia if you include all the time people spend and spent playing Solitaire with cards.] On the other hand, the standard US tax form 1040 is fairly complex, and I don't think you'd find very many people who would call figuring out the right information to enter on the form fun.
Yes, there are lots of impressionable people in the world who are easily persuaded by advertising to choose their drink based on perceived coolness rather than on what's actually enjoyable to drink.
I'd guess that for a lot of people, price plays as much or more of a role in what they drink. Case in point: many college students.
Here's your lukewarm glass of water. If you want something else, we also have lukewarm milk.
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Walk onto a waiting 18-wheeler parked in a nearby parking lot. Drive to a new location and park near where you want the house to be located. Walk off the truck and to the new location.
I could see this being useful as a command post for emergency services (say in a place with bad roads, or one where wheeled vehicles can't access for some reason.)
Hmm... ELIZA + a speech synthesizer + some way to get free incoming calls = lots of wasted telemarketer time. It probably wouldn't take too long to get something like that set up with VoiP, either.
Or they could release 5 or so missions for each race with each "episode", so you can play as your favorite race right away (at least for a little while) while they work on the next episode's missions.
The next time it happens, you might want to end the conversation like this:
Them: Well, we're interested in hiring an engineer... Not so much tech support...
You: Have you ever worked in fast food? I thought so! I'm not interested in working for a burger flipper, either...
Instead of antagonism, turn it around. Try this:
Them: Well, we're interested in hiring an engineer... Not so much tech support...
You: In that case, can you tell me the skills you're looking for that you believe I'm lacking, so that I can better prepare for my next interview?
Worst case scenario, they'll say no. Best case scenario, they'll list off skills that you have, so you can continue the conversation with "I think the C++ experience I gained at my previous position meets that need, let me describe it to you..."
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That's fine. But does that mean the government has to, or should, provide internet service directly to those people? I'd much rather see them fund a program to provide freely available internet service to public facilities like libraries (which I think would cost less than the "free internet for all" plan) and spend the rest of the money they would have budgeted for this program elsewhere (say on improving said libraries, or our education system.) People get free access to the Internet (at least during the day; admittedly one drawback of this plan as compared to the FCC proposal) and schools or libraries get a few extra bucks in the deal.
Cue the government claiming that global warming was intentionally caused to reduce snow removal costs in 3 ... 2 ... 1 ...
I can. If it only takes three complaints to require an ISP to kick off a customer, that should hold whether that customer is an individual or, say, the business connection of a film studio, right? Did the article say anything about whether the complaint had to be a sworn statement (i.e. "under penalty of perjury") or not? If not, well, I think there are more than a few people who would be willing to turn the letter of the law against the studios.
So you're saying that Microsoft didn't build the Xbox because it was built out of components from Microsoft suppliers? Then I suppose you want to credit STMicroelectronics and others as the manufacturer of that "Seagate" HDD? [Yes, I know the article's old, but it was the first one I found mentioning one of Seagate's suppliers and I didn't feel like searching for a more recent one.]
I think you'd be hard-pressed today to find anything whose creation (and the creation of all its subparts) could be credited to one individual or company.
Let's use a different analogy. You rent one half of a house from your landlord. The person who rents the other half adopts a puppy, who uses your flower garden as a bathroom. Your fellow renter refuses to train their puppy to avoid ruining your garden, despite repeated requests to do so. So you take pictures of your fellow renter with their dog and hand them over to your landlord, who terminates your fellow renter's lease for violating the "no pets" clause of the lease.
[checks for the existence of a user with username chairs, finds no such user] Your assumption A holds ... for right now.
After all, both Windows and OS X allow users to share files across a network. Hmm ... French equivalent of the RIAA versus Microsoft. Who to root for?
So let me make sure I understand ... this is basically the EU equivalent of a United States Senator [Marco Cappato, a Liberal member of the European Parliament] asking the House of Representatives [the European Council] for a contract the House negotiated on behalf of the government and getting denied?
Yes; a woman died of "water intoxication" while trying to win a Wii.
It sounds like you may have jumped or been pushed into the implementation stage early. The first step is to generate and agree upon the requirements for your application. Once you as the developer and your client know what your application will do (and more importantly what it will not do) you will be able to decide whether or not the code you want to reuse will satisfy your requirements (or can be tweaked to do so) or if you'll be better off building your own.
Using a quote from the article: "It's starting to look like I would have saved myself a whole lot of time if I had written the database transaction using JDBC instead of Hibernate -- now that I'm married to this object model framework, some of this stuff doesn't look doable." If you and the client had sat down at the beginning of the project and described what the application must do, must not do, and what the client would like it to do (or not to do) would you have realized before getting "married to this object model framework" that some of the requirements would be hard or impossible to satisfy?
If you're lucky, happy wife provides hours of entertainment.
Be careful, complexity and fun aren't always positively correlated. For instance, Tetris and Solitaire are fairly simple games, but I don't want to guess how many person-centuries have been spent playing those since they came out on computers or game consoles [and I'm just looking at those two as electronic games; the amount of time spent increases significantly, probably to units of person-millenia if you include all the time people spend and spent playing Solitaire with cards.] On the other hand, the standard US tax form 1040 is fairly complex, and I don't think you'd find very many people who would call figuring out the right information to enter on the form fun.
I'd guess that for a lot of people, price plays as much or more of a role in what they drink. Case in point: many college students.
Here's your lukewarm glass of water. If you want something else, we also have lukewarm milk.
Walk onto a waiting 18-wheeler parked in a nearby parking lot.
Drive to a new location and park near where you want the house to be located.
Walk off the truck and to the new location.
I could see this being useful as a command post for emergency services (say in a place with bad roads, or one where wheeled vehicles can't access for some reason.)
Hmm ... ELIZA + a speech synthesizer + some way to get free incoming calls = lots of wasted telemarketer time. It probably wouldn't take too long to get something like that set up with VoiP, either.
Maybe Chuck Norris and Bruce Schneier are one and the same person, and anyone who figures that out gets roundhouse kic$(&$*& NO CARRIER
He didn't say that there are worse hobbies, he said there are more expensive hobbies. There's a difference.
But that would only get kids interested in quantum mechanics, not mathematics.
Or they could release 5 or so missions for each race with each "episode", so you can play as your favorite race right away (at least for a little while) while they work on the next episode's missions.
Neither can many Slashdotters, at least not correctly (its vs. it's, for example.)
After all, I'll bet CISCO didn't have a license to redistribute that music.
Ubuntu would be unusual to find in the 2001 search database, yes. Vista? Not so unusual.
Instead of antagonism, turn it around. Try this:
Worst case scenario, they'll say no. Best case scenario, they'll list off skills that you have, so you can continue the conversation with "I think the C++ experience I gained at my previous position meets that need, let me describe it to you ..."
I propose infinite karma for the first person to send him a copy of Phoenix Wright as a "forced retirement" consolation gift.