Gatekeepers And The Economy
from the jobs-justify-anything dept
I was actually thinking about the TSA when I wrote this, but it applies just as well to IP.
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Creating Jobs
Until the walls are finished being built.
Then a lot of wall makers will be out of a job.
Oh! I know how to fix that: Make the walls higher!
[/sarc]
Good strip, Nina =)
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Let us build more walls
And then charge you to get in
Creating more jobs
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Not thinking about the TSA
Walled gardens.
In particular, I was thinking about iPhone development.
I thought it amusing that Google IO 2011 introduces the Android Accessory development kit and proudly says it is open to any developers:
* No Registration
* No Fees
* No NDAs
OTOH, talking to a friend recently who attended Apple's WWDC, their video discussing Apple's partial answer to the lack of garbage collection on iOS is under NDA. Astonishing! A video that tells developers about a new feature that benefits developers (not directly seen by end users) is under NDA? Yet they are announcing this to a large audience?
I guess it is a secret that iOS is trying to catch up to Android having real garbage collection.
Anyway, enough rambling. The comic reminded me of that. :-)
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Of course, it's under NDA.
If it is a pure compiler trick to save you from writing allocate and release, then I am skeptical it is real garbage collection. The point of GC is that it may be unknowable at compile time when an object should be deallocated. For many complex algorithms, even trying to have the programmer attempt to manage the deallocation may be a non-trivial problem -- hence the need for a runtime system to deallocate memory, not compile time.
But I'll have a look on Ars. Thanks.
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The better approach
Just stay out.
If they have to hire guards to keep me out, they obviously don't want me in. Especially if they want to build walls for me to pay what I can get for free elsewhere.
Come into my walled garden! Breathing the air in here is only $0.02 per inhalation.
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must have taken, what, 3 seconds to come up with this. I think my 6 year old is laughing.
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Where as you surely spent hours crafting the hilarious and original insult of "golf claps"
I think my 6 year old is laughing.
From the mouths of babes...
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Wait. Are you saying your 6 year old understands these issues more comprehensively than you do?
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And I'm glad your 6 year old has the mental capacity to understand the joke... don't worry, you'll get there one day.
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As for a slow day, well, you are here. Think about it next time before you shoot yourself in the foot.
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Wasn't aware I was holding a gun. Oh! You must be talking about that wicked-sick BURN you got on me. Ah, the classic "nuh uh! YOU are!" and "I know you are but what am I!?"... can't believe I got my ass handed to me by that. Guess I'll go burn my computer and cut my interweb connection now.
And I'm actually at work posting here between phone calls and web-meetings. But nice to see you're busy setting an example of insulting other people's artistic expression for the next generation. Bravo.
"Ok son/daughter... watch close at how daddy trolls!"
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