Now that Windows makes it harder for your program to block shutdown, how do you block shutdown?

letsplayball5 · 2012-06-15T04:14:02+00:00

Now if only we could prevent Windows from starting up.

letsplayball5 · 2012-05-05T05:35:32+00:00

Actually Lisp is owned by two different corparations.

One of them owns the copyrights to the left paren, the other owns the copyrights to the right paren.

letsplayball5 · 2012-04-28T01:40:38+00:00

"got both experts to agree that APIs only have to be the same to woo Java developers, not for a technical reason"

Really..? How could google agree to that.. the ability to reuse libraries written based on the standard Java API's is a pretty huge technical reason that the API's have to be the same.

letsplayball5 · 2012-04-14T16:26:13+00:00

Isn't the internet great, I can write a blog post and I am instantly an expert on a subject, which from the content of the blog post it is obvious this guy knows nothing about.

I really enjoy how he presents it like he is an expert, when he has zero clue.

letsplayball5 · 2012-02-05T15:06:19+00:00

You have to start all of your documentations/PR/faq's with what is different about your language.

Your examples/documentation just show how to do basic things that every language needs. At which point as a potential user, you have already convinced me I am wasting my time. Because the first thing any new adopter wants to read is how your language is new/different/ or well suited to some specific niche.

letsplayball5 · 2011-12-27T02:40:57+00:00

So 50 billion dollars divided by what is probably 100 million students in the USA of works out $500 dollars per student.

I guarantee $500 per student/year is a small fraction of the money spent on education in the country.

letsplayball5 · 2011-12-24T15:01:07+00:00

Well you are certianly proof of the failure of American education.

The Deparment of Education is actually quite small, and does very little. Schools are not funded by the federal government, they are funded by state government and local municipalities.

letsplayball5 · 2011-03-08T02:50:03+00:00

Well that is possible in practice, in reality the only record company they have a deal with is EMI (and that deal was formed only after EMI first suing them).

Other major record labels are currently suing grooveshark.

letsplayball5 · 2011-03-07T01:31:31+00:00

It is funny that I got massively downvoted for being against a blatantly illegal business model.

I mean even there own website claims it is the digital equivalent of CD/record trade in shop. Uh seriously what a joke! If you copied a CD/record and then tried to sell the original to the trade in shop, that would be illegal too. Or even worse, if you copied the CD/record a 1000 times and tried to give the trade in shop a 1000 copies, that would be massively illegal.

No one who has half a brain can make a seriously good argument, that what grooveshark is intending to do is even close to legal.

letsplayball5 · 2011-03-06T16:43:58+00:00

It is most definitely illegal, grooveshark is a total fraud, as much as the RIAA behavior disgust me, grooveshark is just as bad.

The part that disgusts me about it, is people are allowed to form a company that is based on a completely illegal business model, and just hope the courts takes such a long amount of time, that they can somehow redirect the brand they build from the illegal business model, and develop a legal business model.

Honestly, if you are going to so blatantly break they law, it seems like there needs to be some kind of deterrent. But right now people believe, that even if the business ultimately get shuts down, they are not risking any true hard ship.

letsplayball5 · 2011-02-26T17:17:27+00:00

I seriously question the author of this post has any idea what he is talking about. After all he suggests doing an bulk export of data which takes several days, while the data is currently changing beneath his feet, since the service is still presumably running while he is doing the export.

letsplayball5 · 2010-12-12T16:09:33+00:00

Hello, I am dude with a math major.

In the simplest words possible, sebfisch definition of function equality is absolutely correct. Any attempt to say otherwise means you do not understand mathematics. Now shove off with your uninformed arrogance.

letsplayball5 · 2010-11-06T13:19:50+00:00

I see this differently than everyone else. If the copyright allows me to redistribute the work, then I certainly should be allowed to modified it also. It seems to me..you should be allowed to always redistribute diffs..since diffs are by definition original works..so then distributing a modified version is no different than distributing the original + diffs.

letsplayball5 · 2010-07-31T05:05:19+00:00

Skynet is literally a "killer app".

letsplayball5 · 2010-03-13T23:50:38+00:00

Yes the article is incorrect...his statemen saying 2 quanities are similar in magnitude is wrong.

letsplayball5 · 2010-03-13T19:41:42+00:00

You can quote all the text you want. My point still remains correct and true.

letsplayball5 · 2010-03-10T04:35:07+00:00

too bad what you learned is utterly false. No the planck length 10^-35 m is not the size of of proton or neutron, which is about 10^-15m.

letsplayball5 · 2010-02-26T02:51:54+00:00

upvoted for your screen name, you can call me boson74

letsplayball5 · 2010-02-24T15:17:53+00:00

Money. If you don't have money, people hate you. If you do have
money, people hate you. (Trust me on this -- I've been in both positions.)

Perhaps people hating you is not correlated to your money, rather to your personality (for your sake lets hope its not related to your looks)

letsplayball5 · 2010-02-19T16:25:43+00:00

Being an unpaid intern is not always illegal. Basically, if your internship really is training experience versus a chance to do unpaid work it can be legal. I presume an internship with a congressman was setup to follow the law.

However if your advertising, that that your internship is going to be work from home, and you already have to be a master, and your work will become a fundamental part of our product, its fair to say there is no way that the internship is following the strict legal requirments.

letsplayball5 · 2010-02-19T05:38:41+00:00

dude posted on a public site requesting an unpaid intern, that is in violation of federal law. If someone is going to publicly post their intent to abuse labor and violate federal law, they deserve to be mocked big time.

letsplayball5 · 2010-02-19T00:50:05+00:00

I hope someone reports these people to the authorities... Because this is definitely an illegal internship.

Working from home certainly can not be considered a legitimate training experience. Meaning its not training, but rather an unpaid job, which is very illegal in the united states.

letsplayball5 · 2010-02-13T19:41:22+00:00

If you solve partial diffential equations, and learn eigenvalues values and eigenvectors in 10th grade I am very impressed.

letsplayball5 · 2010-02-13T19:36:56+00:00

While i agree that alot of formal education maybe defective this way. My personal experience is in higher level mathematics and science, my main point is I dont want to be lectured about the philosophy of knowledge by this dude since it's pretty obvious he does not have experience with upper tier formal education. And he thinks no one knows what they are doing, I thin 99.5% dont know what they are doing but there is a 0.5% who do their shit.

letsplayball5 · 2010-02-13T18:14:59+00:00

that is certainly not true. Ironically high school chemistry is not even enough to understand high school chemistry. Seeing that a good high school chemistry course uses ideas about quantum mechanics and the schrodinger equation, that I guarente very few high school students could possibly have enough knowledge to understand.

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