RR (20,2): True, false, file not found
It's been quite uneventful of late, and I don't really have anything to say about much. The most important event that happened since the last post is that the library now has a fingerprint scanner, which makes it more inconvenient to escape. Pretty damn near to impossible, in fact. I figure one way I might succeed is to camp in the library for a few hours from 5 pm, but that just seems dumb.
Oh, and about the library. I was in the library earlier today with my laptop. The library would have been quite a nice place to experience auditory enjoyment, but it so happens that there were a bunch of Year 2s (I think) sitting next to me. At first it wasn't that bad, because it started with only one girl, and autocommunication is best not to be seen by others, but suddenly got worse when people started coming in. Presumably her classmates, since they were doing some project. I was sitting at the back of the library, near power outlets, which might have explained why that area is so damn popular.
So anyway, it got so bad/noisy/annoying that I decided to leave. But before that, I managed to eavesdrop (ha, yeah right, as if they should have been talking in the library in the first place) on a small part of their conversation, where they were talking about anime. Then some girl (probably not the same girl, but I couldn't tell since I was fixated on my laptop screen trying to drown out their nonsense) mentioned that she couldn't find some series on the popular video sites. Hey guess what? You just acknowledged that you illegally download anime. You asshole.
Yes, I was being a hypocrite. But at least I don't publicly announce that I do illegal stuff most of the time, except when the law is obviously the one that is wrong.
And about where the law is wrong: software patents. Because most of my songs are in AAC format, I need a decoder to listen to them. For that, I use FAAD with Gstreamer as a frontend. It's distributed as a compiled program, so me using it is technically illegal. But this is a shit law. If people followed shit laws there would never be law reforms, even when situations change and things once good are now bad, and maybe vice versa.
I realise something. The way I post in this blog is effectively like a Wiki Walk (yay TV Tropes but then I'm too lazy to link); each group of paragraphs is related to the previous by some at times rather contrived link.
The title of this post is a reference to both HTTP 404 (guess what the post number is) and the TDWTF article What Is Truth?. Of course, if you thought that FileNotFound was the only weirdness that programmer committed, note that True is 0 and False is 1. Opposite of what C-like programming languages (C, C++, Java) have as convention.
Oh, and about the library. I was in the library earlier today with my laptop. The library would have been quite a nice place to experience auditory enjoyment, but it so happens that there were a bunch of Year 2s (I think) sitting next to me. At first it wasn't that bad, because it started with only one girl, and autocommunication is best not to be seen by others, but suddenly got worse when people started coming in. Presumably her classmates, since they were doing some project. I was sitting at the back of the library, near power outlets, which might have explained why that area is so damn popular.
So anyway, it got so bad/noisy/annoying that I decided to leave. But before that, I managed to eavesdrop (ha, yeah right, as if they should have been talking in the library in the first place) on a small part of their conversation, where they were talking about anime. Then some girl (probably not the same girl, but I couldn't tell since I was fixated on my laptop screen trying to drown out their nonsense) mentioned that she couldn't find some series on the popular video sites. Hey guess what? You just acknowledged that you illegally download anime. You asshole.
Yes, I was being a hypocrite. But at least I don't publicly announce that I do illegal stuff most of the time, except when the law is obviously the one that is wrong.
And about where the law is wrong: software patents. Because most of my songs are in AAC format, I need a decoder to listen to them. For that, I use FAAD with Gstreamer as a frontend. It's distributed as a compiled program, so me using it is technically illegal. But this is a shit law. If people followed shit laws there would never be law reforms, even when situations change and things once good are now bad, and maybe vice versa.
I realise something. The way I post in this blog is effectively like a Wiki Walk (yay TV Tropes but then I'm too lazy to link); each group of paragraphs is related to the previous by some at times rather contrived link.
The title of this post is a reference to both HTTP 404 (guess what the post number is) and the TDWTF article What Is Truth?. Of course, if you thought that FileNotFound was the only weirdness that programmer committed, note that True is 0 and False is 1. Opposite of what C-like programming languages (C, C++, Java) have as convention.
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