http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk :
> You can create an e-petition about anything that the government is responsible for and if it gets at least 100,000 signatures, it will be considered for debate in the House of Commons.
A protest by 1m people doesn't induce any requirement on the house of commons...these petitions do.
They might not change anything, but at least sign the thing before committing to failure.
alan_cx:
> Terrifyingly, speaking as a wet pacifist who couldn't fight his way out of a wet paper bag, the only way I see to oppose a sitting government is mass violence. Bigger violence that a few summers ago.
OUCH. Maybe i'm should be pro GCHQ, might stop you from stabbing a squaddie.
Using (or threatening with violence) when you feel like you have too little power to change things is a contradiction...if you have so little political power, why do you think your personal physical power will be so much more effective? Terrorists and anarchists are the reasons GCHQ exists.
If having children is a basic human right, isn't the capability to be able to raise them also a necessity (a human right of the child's fulfilled in proxy by the parent)?
One of the points in the article is the disparity of pay between lowest income workers and executives.
So really, aren't we subsidizing executive's pay?
It appears that it is easier to squeeze the poorest than the richest. The richest have more power to protect their interests.
> I am not a "3 cheers for dynamically typed languages" person, but for Java I am willing to concede that the type system comes with the drawbacks but little benefit. In C++, and D you can pull the gloves off when required. And please dont get me started on JINI.
I expect you mean JNI and not Apache JINI...
That probably highlights the difference between Java and other languages you like to mention, it may use more memory and be marginally slower computationally, but when you take that the most interesting applications these days are distributed the ability to sort an array and save a few clock cycles fades into insignificance compared to network latency and connection times.
Not to mention also, you can optimize your CPU's workload or you can optimize your personal workload. Java lets you pick great libraries off the shelf. Or you can choose to manually do your own array bounds checking and pick up your own garbage.
Maybe brits are just more lazy than people from other countries and just click on ads to find what they want.
Or maybe british advertisers are crazy and pay insane prices for adwords.
Or maybe a mix of both. Who knows, but frankly, the brits are getting raped by Google through the hemorrhaging of $1bn per quarter taken out of the domestic economy. It is obscene for a company, any company, to reap the benefits of a developed economy and not pay any taxation to support the education, welfare and security of the economy they profit from.
It would seem that steve jobs was more interested in suing other companies than anything non-ego driven. He wouldn't even pay up for his super-expensive titanium boat.
I'll keep betting on Bill and Warren to save the world, thanks.
If anyone else clicked on this link to find out who this mysterious 'Gerald' is and why we're supposed to know by him by his first name through some sort of Voodoo, i recommend instead to go listen to a far more interesting Guy called Gerald:
"And though Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom has had to react and has promised this won't happen, at least one big publisher isn't buying it: National Geographic"
Why does Kevin have to 'promise' not to use your photos? This is what terms and conditions are for, so that 'promise' isn't worth the paper it's not written on.
Spending any money on 3D printers is a complete waste of resources when building a new facility like this. Spend the money on the building's infrastructure and networking which will still be in use long after its finished and not just for the PR launch.
What are you on about? Concurrent programming is the set of problems that exists when there are multiple 'computational processes' accessing shared state. This is a 'thread' (overloaded use) about JS, but Java has a package called java.util.concurrent and there's also a seminal book called "concurrency in practice", these are about nothing but threads.
Parallelism is just a new buzz word for people who have just discovered that threads\processes exist and they can have multiple things running at the same time. They just removed the shared state cause they don't want to have to deal with the headaches of concurrent programming.
This is a ridiculous argument - there are no "good" reasons only a lot of FUD and font vendors who want this as a roundabout form of asset protection. The fonts are accessible by anyone who can use wget and can be copied and hosted anywhere else instead. Useless on all fronts, this just restricts the public web from end users.
Do not forget that the website must link to the asset in question. Why would they link to something they don't trust? Everyone trusts jQuery to not be malicious and everyone has links to cross-origin code running on their site. This is what makes the web a "web". Otherwise you would only be able to link with yourself.
As an anecdotal comment, i visited The Gambia in West Africa a few years ago and was surprised to discover that one area of town is officially called "Traffic Lights". They were the first set installed in the country in 2001.
i think the last comment's suggestion wasn't acceptable because it will break type safety for previously compiled code. perhaps this was too much to stomach for those making the decision?
it would remain binary compatible tho, so it would seem to be a possible solution.
for java to really advance forward it needs to be done in a manner where the principal is the future, not the past. if this means rendering old code as non-type-stafe then this is a small price for a whole new programming paradigm, or even two.
i've struggled with generics since they were added and the problem is that all the potential they propose is only possible if they're reified. as they stand they are worthless and just move a cast from the value to the class but they allude to far more, which is a rat hole.
java's had full backward compatibility for decades. code is a depreciating asset and worth less with every year since compilation. it's an incumbent now, slowing, even mutating, progress.
if some legacy code is so valuable, it should have earned its scars enough to have type safety turned off.
With the notable exception of Microsoft.