Posts by Steen Hive 842 publicly visible posts • joined 17 Nov 2007
Eclipse being one of the major ones I use. Unfortunately it's fits right in there under "sloth". I have yet to see a major java client app that is all of nimble, usable and and attractive. And as for in-browser applets, and corporate in-house monstrosities - they are just invariably shit.
Blame the developers? If a platform can't deliver the facilities to enable developers to deliver responsive, attractive apps on schedule - that's a problem with the platform much more than the developers. Unless one thinks the very act of learning java puts one in a creative straitjacket ;-)
"The copyright-holders argue that the law hasn't kept pace with technology."
Best laugh of the day so far.
The law isn't anything directly to do with technology, anyway, it is about resolving disputes between non-state actors (tort) or between non-state actors and the state (criminal). The fact that certain actors (copyright holders) are in bed with the state at the expense of private individuals is nowhere better illustrated than in copyright so-called "law".
"We need to live in the real world and it's full of whackos hellbent on killing as many people as they can in the name of some crusade."
Eh, no it isn't. Diagnosis: you are either a juvenile, or a paranoid dupe. People or organisations, including "bogey men" have specific goals - for example, the United States - pursuant to it's "interests" desires to have military presence in all areas of the globe and will kill - and has killed - millions to achieve that goal. The documented and stated goals of Al Qaeda are to remove American military presence from the Middle East.
Now evil genius Bin Laden calculated that the way to nobble an overwhelmingly more powerful democratic adversary is to make it implode simply by demolishing a few buildings and getting them to use their own state apparatus against their own population. Job done, I'd say - 360 million headless chickens with a ridiculously powerful military is far more of a threat to me personally than some dupes with rucksacks full of fertiliser and the odd AK-47.
... of pulling figures from your arse.
"true the lost sales dosent hold up completly, but if there are 100 pirate copies then maybe that represents 10 people who would have actually paid for it if there was no chioce"
Prove even ONE copy out of '$59bn of "stolen" software' represents a lost sale.
or geographical criterion to punt your angle - here's mine - Scotland has 1/3rd of the land mass so should receive approaching 1/3rd of the budget for infrastructure projects where geography is pertinent. Just another downside, I suppose of forcing people off land and replacing them with livestock
Many cancers can be treated very successfully ( early melanoma, juvenile leukaemia, among others) - ie. mortality rates of those treated tend closely towards those of the general population.
Cancer can't be "cured" - both you and I have cancer anyway. Advertising a "cure" for cancer is as fraudulent and nonsensical as advertising a "cure" for having feet.
I always took from Albert that an arbitrary "something" travelling "faster than c" as far as an observer is concerned wasn't impossible, but rather meaningless. And if the observer itself is travelling at c - relative to an arbitrary "something" - travelling across the universe would mean the time taken would tend to zero - ie distance would become the meaningless factor - in the sense that the concept of "relative to an arbitrary something" would be nonsensical.
But I haven't had my morning coffee yet.
"***The Beeb avoided immigration ****
Eh? Eh?"
In the newspeak "journo" dictionary, "avoiding" means not editorialising the subject matter. The BBC in general try to avoid editorialising subjects as much as possible ( with a few notable exceptions such as the Middle East, where they are leant on - and frequently threatened with being shat on).
The Beeb cover "immigration" (whatever that is as an issue) just fine. Contrast with the NI output from the Sun to Fox News - which in common much of Andrew's, is just one long stream of Editorial.
"the real killers of the manufacturing industry in the UK was the unions."
As borne out by the fact that European countries that DO manufacture stuff instead of creaming the top off transactions of artificial debt money and calling it "growth' inevitably had and have stronger labour collectivisation than the UK.
Manufacturing, entrepreneurship and social contract ARE the foundation of stable growth - anything else is merely pissing the future up against the wall and financial sophistry punted by parasites.
The availability of high-quality nautical charts in Europe is scandalous. Mariners are forced to pay through the nose for data that taxpayers have already paid their local HGO to collect, only for it to be punted to a cartel of corporations who package it in any number of incompatible proprietary and encrypted formats in order to fleece a captive market, and to promote vendor lock-in to their partner ECDIS system integrators.
The NOAA somehow manage to provide S-57 vector charts for the whole of North America for free - why can't the European HGOs man up and do the same. For an obvious cause like maritime safety, anything else is a disgrace.
As it is, it's actually far cheaper to bring up an Amazon EC2 farm to crack the S-63/Navionics/CMap chart encryption than it is to pay these conmen.
To hell already with the age, gender, race or marital status of the driver. And to hell with insurance companies too. Insure the fucking vehicle itself or add it to fuel duty! 3rd party insurance is a legal requirement and as such should be available at cost to anyone who has demonstrated the skill to operate a motor vehicle, further it should be varied solely on the basis of distance driven. If you want additional insurance, knock yourself out with theft premiums based on location etc.
Couple that with stronger sanctions that take bad drivers off the roads for longer and everyone will gain. Works a treat in Scandinavia. None of this "named driver" bollocks here either. Any licensed driver may drive my car with my permission.
"Vaizey wants internet companies and copyright groups to thrash out their differences."
Finding common ground in the way they get to shaft consumers is not what this should be about, and without a party present to represent the interests of these consumers, the whole process is a sham anyway.
That entrepreneurs add value. A thriving entrepreneurial ecosystem is indeed what provides real, tangible growth - improving the circumstances of all connected. The social engineer architects of the Swedish model were well aware of that 80-odd years ago too.
"Economic growth" in itself is a skewed term used to punt sophistry by economists - witness many countries with high "economic growth" figures being shitefests to actually exist in, because the real growth is wasted propping up the infrastructure of capital and socialising losses.
Sweden has something very precious - a real social contract that enables it to gain more for less - it's a far more entrepreneur-friendly here than so-called "liberal" economies, while still protecting the situation of the most vulnerable in their society to a high degree. Now I'm talking about entrepreneurs mind you, not people bouncing shedloads of virtual money around.
That this tiny, high-tax economy has pretty much held it's own up against the behemoth predatory economies of other western nations is testament to it's workability. Notice that what brought down en even tinier, but similar and otherwise pretty well-run economy in Iceland was nothing other than international capital.
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