I hope he gets hit by a truck today. I really do. There isn't, nor will there ever be an argument where the enablement of child molestation and rape is acceptable. And if there is collateral damage, then so be it. I'd rather 100 go to jail wrongfully accused than to enable 1 child to be rape. This guy make me sick. Seriously Rick, please kill yourself.
Since ethics isn't fixed, then what watermark do you suggest to define a universal ethics. It's like euthanasia, is it ethical for a doctor to commit murder if it's to stop terrible suffering? It was ethical to own slaves, but not ethical to have them work on a Sunday. Nowadays, having staff work Sundays is ethical (although your probably a jerk) though it's no longer ethical for them to be slaves.
Not only excusable, but encourageable. It's a LAW. It's maliable. If it's wrong, fix it. The reason we have them is to govern what we can and should do.
Well, absolutely, Samsung is leveraging Google's, and many companies R&D. But R&D isn't cheep, intuitive, or obvious. Blackberry decided not to copy Apple very much, still created some great phones from a product view and they died. Nokia copied not at all, and they're not doing too well. HTC copied a little, and they are doing okayish. Samsung copied a lot more and is doing the best.
My argument is all ideas should be free. We should adopt the good ideas globally so every phone copies the best ideas. You get an inventors monopoly for as long as it takes to reverse engineer. In our current product cycles, that's ~2+years. All problems solved.
No, I'm not, and the reason you think I am is because you're not looking at the whole picture. Apple invests it's shareholder dollars in R&D on the promise that they will return on that investment. Apple spent years getting it right, and then Samsung copies the work and spits out a competing product in a fraction of the time. Apple is suing because Samsung stole ideas, and Samsung is leveraging it's business on Apples R&D.
Now, I don't think ideas or design should have a monetary value. But if you live in a world where ideas have currency, then stealing ideas is theft. We need to change the laws so ideas are free to all men. Apple isn't the problem, it's simply the best at navigating the problem.
Apple is a company compelled to be greedy. It's actually the law for Apple to make as much money as possible given any legal and ethical way it can. Suing another giant tech company over legitimate patents is ethical. The system is designed so that a trial determines if the patents are legit. This is what happened. If you don't like that, then fix the fucking patent system. Quit whining that your favourite tech company lost.
Companies are not teams, they are simply the manufacturer of a product that you either bought or chose not to buy. If you don't like the way a company is legally and ethically running it's business, then change the law. Don't boycott the company who is succeeding best at working within the framework provided.
You won't have much of a choice after 5 years, all new cars will be semi-autonomous. A few year after that, people will enjoy the benefits so much that, that there won't be much demand for driveable cars. It's the same story as the horse to car, letter to telegram, paper to radio, radio to tv, tv to flatscrren, flatscreen to 3dtv... Okay, maybe not the last one.
Since nothing about that is totalitarian at all, I don't think the term Orwellian is correct. Having computers recognize us and authorize or authenticate is solely at the whim of the consumer. It becomes Orwellian when the government demands that government controlled sensors be included in every car.
Well, no. You can look at an LCD monitor and say "look, prior art for a tablet" but that doesn't meet the legal meaning and requirements, and nor does this for the purposes of this case. Stop making the argument about Apple vs Google. This is about patents and commercialism. So many fan comments we can't see the forest through the trees.
You're creating an actual instance of that object preloaded with whatever you need rather than a mock of that item which implements a fake implementation. They're not really competing since Mocks are most useful when mocking an interface, and Factory Girl is best at creating a number of usable objects.
Yea, once your model gets more complex than a dozen or so objects, then something like this is awesome. I only with there was an equivalent in ASP.Net MVC which is the current bill payer. (Plant is the closest I've seen, but not quite as elegant, and I'm a little concerned over support).
Actually, this really pisses me off. Heaven forbid that all the hard work we do as developers actually come with a reasonable compensation option... like money. I think more sites need to go pay only, I'm tired of every advertising company on the internet knowing more about my buying preferences than I do. Support developers FFS.
The writing is on the wall though; Kinda has been for a while. I think this is why App.Net might actually get some traction. People will move when that's where all the cool features are, and none of the crappy ads. Maybe.
Religion has never filled a need. Religion is a placebo. It purports to do something, and cannot fulfill on its promise. No one, not one human needs a placebo. They NEED air to breath or they will die, they NEED shelter or they will freeze to death. They WANT religion for a number of different reasons, but not one reason is because without it they will die.
Purpose most certainly does not require religion. Social cohesion happens far better in the absence of religion. Finally, why would I need ritual. I loathe almost all pomp ant ritual. Regardless, you again need no religion for ritual.