millstone

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1951.
by millstone 14y ago
I don't agree that C++ is not coming back for front-end applications. There's some currents against managed code (i.e. WinRT), but more importantly, it never left. I assume you are using IE, Firefox, or a WebKit browser to read this; that m
1952.
by millstone 14y ago
The risk of piracy is that, if enough people pirate instead of purchase, it becomes more difficult for inventors and creators to make a living, and so we all may lose access to their potential future inventions and creations. To beat on you
1953.
by millstone 14y ago
Average text messages per user are down, for the first time ever. See http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/12/text-messaging-decl... . The article blames Facebook and Apple's iMessage, but the price of text messages has to be a factor as
1954.
by millstone 14y ago
Distribution rights can arise naturally as a contract or condition of sale. I will sell you this data if you agree that you will never give a copy to someone else. The government's role is limited to enforcing contracts, and government inte
1955.
by millstone 14y ago
I thought plagiarism was an issue of false attribution? If my product gives attribution to the original authors, but I do not release my source code, then I am in violation of the GPL, but I am not a plagiarist.
1956.
by millstone 14y ago
The author voluntarily sold a copy of his work, but with strings attached. The buyer accepted those limitations as a condition of the sale, and when he duplicated and distributed the contents, he violated the mutually agreed upon terms of t
1957.
by millstone 14y ago
Do you just accept GPL violations? Once you've given me the source code, it's no longer yours!
1958.
by millstone 14y ago
Android could have based itself on a BSD, or even xnu, and done just fine.
1959.
by millstone 14y ago
You may recall Google being fined $22.5 million for sneakily bypassing Safari's privacy settings earlier this year. But more to the point is Google's lobbying. Google spends far more on lobbying than do Apple, Facebook, or Microsoft. Google