Goat and a sheep? that's disgusting... just totally inhumane for farmers to allow something so horrible to happen... I'm really worried about the future of the human society, what next? a dog and a cat? a human being and a chimpanzee? bunch of perverted maniacs deface what it means to be human, to be pure beings under name of Jesus Christ, we should all repent for our sins to the lord and the savior who created us 6000 years ago.
Love it! I started to get pissed off at the beginning then as I read I started to laugh out loud!
As a farmer Ireland, I was really surprised to see this on here. It was like taking a coffee break from work!
Yeah! HN is too sensible and having just migrated from /. I want some ignorance, indignation and quotes from Our Lord in the comments to warm up my day.
I think we're all very lucky to have a corporation as innovative, open-minded, and generous as Microsoft. Microsoft is a company that every company should look up to.
This does not make up for decades of abuse they've been giving the market at large. Yes, I've witnessed it first hand as early as 1990, and second hand ever since. They're still extorting android handset makers, and it was only 5 years ago that they loaded the ISO committees to favor OOXML.
How about glasses (frames)? smartphone cases? there are tons of small accessories that can be printed which can save hundreds or even thousands down the road with a 3d printer.
The problem is that plastic molding is already cheap if you're creating a standardized size. The real issue for 3d printing custom objects is that the design is not free. Yes, once a design is done, great. But if you're going to be making a million of them, then more traditional processes are going to be cheaper.
1) people aren't manufacturing, they are producing for themselves and close friends, so volume isn't a cost factor as much as it would be in a production scenario.
2) printing allows for us to get away from standardized pieces for the sake of homogeneity and production cost. These sorts of manufacturing techniques finally allow for the prioritization of artistry rather than the adherence to standards for the sake of cost, as it's putting that decision into the hands of the consumer rather than the business interest.
3) 'design as a cost' is dropping drastically with the advent of tools that allow us to digitize objects into virtual models near instantaneously.
it reminds me of ordering a car from the factory in the sixties.
Back in those days you could order a car with as few options as you wanted. If you were a racer you could order the economy car with the big engine, no radio or ac or carpet/headliner/backseats and have practically a drag car from the factory. Production cost savings of course nixxed that idea of one-off production cars.
Maybe these kind of technologies can allow for those sort of unique configurations without ruining bottom lines too terribly?
People breaking the law should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Digital rights management protects the artists and the publishers from having their rights violated by the criminals who watch movies using Popcorn Time. Furthermore, the creators of Popcorn Time are subject to being accessories to the crime.
The existence of Popcorn Time serves as a pretty strong counter-example to the argument that DRM protects IP rights.
I have, however, had technical difficulty playing a movie I legally purchased through iTunes thanks to HDCP deciding it wanted the day off.
Another minor complaint: I want to run my movies through an audio filter I developed to improve stereo imaging on headphones, but I can't really do that with DRM'd content. (Annoyingly, attempting to open a Fairplay-protected item with an AVPlayer object on OS X 10.9 causes the process to be sent SIGKILL.)
Not that I think this justifies piracy, but I do think DRM is a lame non-solution that punishes paying customers while piracy continues to run rampant in spite of it.
"So - you feel the penalties set down in law are always just and appropriate?"
I believe not all penalties set down in law are always just and appropriate, probably even some authorities may see it this way too, but just imagine that you were to ask that question if you were set in front of a judge to justify your piracy acts, do you really think that'll get you out of trouble?
Well, I don't see how downloading non-commercial products can be seen as a piracy at all. It would make whole lot sense to me if you were to say that non-commercial software downloading should be a civil matter, not a criminal one, but here we're talking about pirating commercial products in popcorn time, which can be categorized into criminal matter.
I mean non-commercial in the sense that the person doing the downloading (or uploading) isn't doing so to generate a commercial benefit, not whether or not the product being pirated is commercial in nature.
>which can be categorized into criminal matter.
Of course it can be categorised into criminal matter, that's the point: it is, but it shouldn't be.
the title of this post is: "Comic Sans Neue Mono: Programming Font (github.com)" for sec i really thought this was a new variant of comic sans font but for programming, it turns out its actual name is cosmic sans.
Oops, that was actually a typo, but it is loosely based/related to comic sans. "The name comes from my realization that at some point it looked like the mutant child of Comic Sans and Helvetica Neue. Hopefully it is not the case any more."
long live all patents (software or hardware)! they fuel invention/innovation. Edison, Bell Graham, Nikolai Tesla, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, they were inventors/innovators that deserve to be highly credited for the contributions that they made to the society, and yet so many people are trying to view a few of them as "evil" just because they made their ideas into reality before anyone else did.
...or didn't make it a reality. What if Edison, Bell Graham, etc etc filed their patents and then never went into production. Then when someone else had the idea, they sued them for billions of dollars. Where would the US be now?
I hoped to see some useful information that can help me to see the world through the lens of software, but... Jeff Lawson should've been more clear about what he really meant by "looking at the world through the lens of software."
It was pretty abstract, but I think it's meant to be mostly high level. "looking at the world through the lens of software" from what I got, is just seeing all problems as solvable by software. Not sure how much deeper you can take it, other than just giving a whole bunch of examples of problems to be solved with software.
As someone who contributed a bit to edX last year[1], it seems that they found rake to be a nicer way to encapsulate scripts than, for some reason, shell scripts or something. IIRC it was just setting some environment variables to manage the dev environment. Personally I would have wished that they used Rails instead of Django but this bit of oddity was kind of amusing for me.
[1] As a side note, apparently I'm the #23rd most frequent committer, and I only worked on edX for a couple months, that's pretty cool :)
