I only heard about this in Slasdot, and I don't give a shit. If I'd heard that a company were selling food which killed people, and their defence was "oh, we heard it was poisonous so we stopped selling it for a bit, and instead gave it away to poor people" I'd never buy anything from them again.
If patents didn't exist it would make absolutely no difference to the amount of progress which goes on, because the patents are bullshit. Apple would not make a penny more profit if samsung didn't have to use a slightly different shaped case or whatever. Microsoft wouldn't be going hungry if they were not able to make more money from FAT patents rather than selling their own shitty smartphones.
> I plan to clone my hard drive on April 8th and just restore from that backup
> whenever I get hacked. No fail in this plan!
That's actually quite a good plan, with just one small change; replace "get hacked" with "boot".
> Get rid of Java entirely unless you desperately need it; in that case, keep it up to
> date religiously
Three - sorry now four - updates a year, so that's not going to be hard.
Spot on - like those clowns who conflate "schizophrenia" with that (uniquely North-American) phenomenon of multiple-personality disorder.
Also, all Molyneux's games strongly resemble the extremely tedious, if novel, Populous; they just got worse with each revision. Microsoft have released some good games over the years, but he wasn't involved in any of them.
I don't think anyone cares if they drop this. People aren't going to hear about this platform for the first time and say "wait, I have a sneaking suspicion that previously I'd have been able to play a free sample of all games, not just some games, and that makes me less likely to want to play games on it".
On the positive side, once you've invested, calibrated etc, you can now make little bits of plastic you'd previously have glued back together (if broken), improvised (if lost) or bought again (well over the odds, but for a fraction of the cost of the machine and all the plastic etc).
Harming a member of the establishment, or those who prop it up, always gets more punishment than harming a prole.
It matters if you're reporting A happened and actually it was B. Yes, in both cases something happened, and we can agree perhaps that they both fall into the "bad" category. But..so what? How does that make the story more accurate?
Oh, and "period".
No. Just one example:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-2...
"Michael Adebolajo has been given a whole-life term and Michael Adebowale has been jailed for a minimum of 45 years for murdering Fusilier Lee Rigby."
> I just hope there aren't unintended consequences, as there were in that movie.
Confusion, tiredness, desire to go to the toilet and not return?
"Thirty years in prison is currently the most severe punishment available in the UK legal system."
No, it's not. People get 30-year minimum sentences, for instance, and there are a number of prisoners on whole-life sentences:
Thank god the West doesn't have any problem with the wealthy and well connected being treated any differently to anyone else. Just think what sort of societal problems would be occurring on a daily basis were that the case.
So, you've not used LINQ on
You're missing the point. From Wikipedia:
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The 1933 census, with design help and tabulation services provided by IBM through its German subsidiary, proved to be pivotal to the Nazis in their efforts to identify, isolate, and ultimately destroy the country's Jewish minority. Machine-tabulated census data greatly expanded the estimated number of Jews in Germany by identifying individuals with only one or a few Jewish ancestors. Previous estimates of 400,000 to 600,000 were abandoned for a new estimate of 2 million Jews in the nation of 65 million.[15]
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Don't think of Nazi activities as the time of the war (1939-45) only because their evil started long before then, and IBM were there to help.
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
