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Off-Topic / Re: ORACLE begins patent-trolling with Java.
« on: August 17, 2010, 12:30:38 pm »
Copyright is not facilitating ridiculous litigation wars, whereas patents are. My original point was that we should at least change the patent laws. If abolishing patents is the way to fix IP, great. However, There is no evidence to support the idea that abolishing copyright would be positive or negative, nor is there evidence that changing IP laws would be positive or negative. There is only speculation.
No matter which is the best solution in the end, extremist abolition of systems that have, however poorly, functioned for hundreds or thousands of years, is never a good idea. There is always another point of view, and there are always more effective compromises than abruptly throwing everything out for the benefit of an untested system.
No matter which is the best solution in the end, extremist abolition of systems that have, however poorly, functioned for hundreds or thousands of years, is never a good idea. There is always another point of view, and there are always more effective compromises than abruptly throwing everything out for the benefit of an untested system.
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Off-Topic / Re: ORACLE begins patent-trolling with Java.
« on: August 17, 2010, 10:12:17 am »
I'm not convinced that copyright is never a good thing. These cases where patents cause problems are very high-visibility, but nobody really talks about cases where they're a good thing.
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Off-Topic / Re: ORACLE begins patent-trolling with Java.
« on: August 16, 2010, 10:07:31 pm »
Which means...?
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Off-Topic / Re: ORACLE begins patent-trolling with Java.
« on: August 16, 2010, 09:06:48 pm »I agree they should use C++, because C++ is perfect in every way.
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Off-Topic / Re: ORACLE begins patent-trolling with Java.
« on: August 15, 2010, 06:48:51 pm »
XD
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Off-Topic / Re: ORACLE begins patent-trolling with Java.
« on: August 14, 2010, 08:56:10 pm »Java is a terrible language, especially for teaching. It teaches bad habits, such as instantiating classes for the sole purpose of performing functions.Thank you for the irrelevant trolling.
Most of the stuff that is in Java can easily be done in other languages.
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Off-Topic / Re: ORACLE begins patent-trolling with Java.
« on: August 14, 2010, 05:03:23 pm »
I never really liked Java, especially as a teaching language, so I'm not too worried about that. However, the JVM, Dalvik, and the ecosystem(s) around them are far too important to let Oracle patent-troll them out of usefulness, and patent trolling in general is too much of a problem to let it continue.
The USPO is horrid at recognizing prior art and at keeping track of what else they've given out patents for. Fixing that would go a long way, but fixing patent laws themselves (e.g. no patents on algorithms or other ideas that anyone could come up with independently) would be even better.
The USPO is horrid at recognizing prior art and at keeping track of what else they've given out patents for. Fixing that would go a long way, but fixing patent laws themselves (e.g. no patents on algorithms or other ideas that anyone could come up with independently) would be even better.
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Off-Topic / Re: ORACLE begins patent-trolling with Java.
« on: August 14, 2010, 10:48:30 am »
Or we could make software patents illegal and keep using the JVM implementation that actually works.
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Announcements / Re: ENIGMA R4
« on: August 13, 2010, 07:31:19 pm »
@retep: That worked.
@Josh: Thanks, will do.
Edit: the build system has issues on Windows. The error is "sh: C:\Program: No such file or directory." I'm looking into it, but I don't know enough about the system.
@Josh: Thanks, will do.
Edit: the build system has issues on Windows. The error is "sh: C:\Program: No such file or directory." I'm looking into it, but I don't know enough about the system.
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Announcements / Re: ENIGMA R4
« on: August 13, 2010, 01:16:38 pm »
Windows XP SP3, Java 1.6.0_21, revision 337; when I run ENIGMA.exe I get an error when it tries to run LGM:
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Initializing Enigma: Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: Unable to load library 'compileEGMf': The specified module could not be found.
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at org.lateralgm.main.LGM.loadPlugins(LGM.java:297)
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Announcements / Re: Shortcuts
« on: July 31, 2010, 11:46:19 am »
The C++0x foreach works with c-style arrays, the new initializer lists, and anything that follows the stl iterator interface (begin()/end()/::iterator): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C++0x#Range-based_for-loop
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Issues Help Desk / Re: Stuff referencing each other.
« on: July 11, 2010, 11:22:23 am »
Guys.
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class foo { class bar opposite(); };
class bar { foo opposite(); };
That will work so long as you implement opposite() after both declarations.
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Issues Help Desk / Re: Stuff referencing each other.
« on: July 10, 2010, 03:42:26 pm »Code: [Select]
class foo { class bar opposite(); };
class bar { foo opposite(); };
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Off-Topic / Re: Sandy Duncan and clan
« on: July 08, 2010, 06:49:47 pm »
The new GMC theme is a greenified version of the new default IPB theme. They had no choice since they had to upgrade to fix some actively-exploited vulnerabilities, and have said they are working on a new theme.
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Off-Topic / Re: Sandy Duncan and clan
« on: July 08, 2010, 09:51:24 am »
Sandy's the one on the right, trying to hide from Josh?