If that's the case, why did my university have to BUY tons of copies of Windows for all of its PCs? Why did I have to pay WAY more than the materials costs for textbooks?
Teaching somebody long division is quite different from taking somebody's recently published article about their research of using long divison and handing out copies to those third graders. It wasn't the fact that the professor was teaching a skill, but the materials he was teaching the skill with.
Should the professor have bought only one 23 year old text book, and make photocopies for every student in the class, do you think that somehow WOULDN'T be violating copyright just because his intent was to teach?
He was not excerpting. This was NOT fair use.
And if you've been to a univeristy book store lately, you'd know there's PLENTY of money to be had in selling educational materials (books, trade journals, etc.)
This has nothing to do with patents, and everything to do with the fact that the grandparent saw no commercial viability in an article that had enough value that the professor wanted to use it as teaching material -- I simply pointed out the contradiction in that.
Hey, I know exactly what you're saying. I'm just saying that the grandparent seemed to think that the article the professor was handing out copies of needed no copyright protection because he doubted the commercial value of it. 'm just pointing out that there was obviously some value in it if the professor thought it was valuable teaching material. If you've been to a university lately, you know there's a lot of money to be had in selling educational materials (visit the campus bookstore!)
Today in class, the professor handed out some copies that came out of IEEE Computer...... how commercially valuable is a 23 year old article about parallel computing?
Sounds like your school found a viable purpose for such an article, and as part of your education I assume you (or someone else) is paying for, it is being commercially used. Did you professor violate copyright in handing it out, or did he actually pay for the rights to use it?
One of the things I like about e-mail is that I have a permanent record to refer back to. I usualy don't take notes, especially electronically, when talking to someone in person. If I do at all, I do so afterwards when the memory is always fading.
Plus, with an e-mail, you can support your CYA policy.
Where I work, it's not the e-mail or instant message interrupting me so much as it's the person stopping by your cubicle *in person* to ask a question.
Can't remember any of us dying from it. Heck, I can't remember anyone getting *sick* from it
So maybe in smaller sustained doses, Amonia just causes memory loss instead of death? Better, but still bad:)
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Now that the copyright issues have been sorted out...
As I was reading this sentence, my heart stopped and my mind jumped for joy. I thought the RIAA/MPAA/etc. had finally given up, congress had rolled back copyright terms, and the GPL was finally successfully tested in court.
I would hope the Planetary Society had some sort of insurance orequivalent guarantee form the RSA so that they could be restored to an equivalent financial state and try again.
Or! Maybe, as in Contact, the solar sail only cost $2M and the solar sail built in secrecy is already on the backup launching pad!
Hopefully they've have progressed to a better user interface. This one is old and clunky. No DHTML collapsable threads, no AJAX, no web service exposure...
"We're against software piracy. We believe Microsoft's rights should be respected. And the simplest way to respect their rights is for Brazilians everywhere to switch to free software."
I haven't seen anyone point out that XBox uses a Windows derivative and runs on nicely packaged commodity PC hardware. Whose to say Microsoft won't make it so game developers can write the game once and then easily tailor it to btoh platforms (if they haven't already)?
Yeah, I've had similar thoughts. Suppose Windows was supplanted by competition, or forced by anti-trust laws. Well, if MIcrosoft just just get everything ported to.NET, then they just need to get the.NET platform ported to whatever major OS platforms there are out there. MONO is doing that for Linux already...
Justice Dept.: "Microsoft, stop making Windows a monopoly"
Microsoft to Justice Dept.: "OK, no problem."
Microsoft to Self: "Release the.NET implementations, and start selling Office on each of those platforms."
I have trouble sending e-mail from my consumer DSL (not business DSL) to many RoadRunner cable customers. After digging through their poorly organized auto-responses and subsequent URLs, it seems I was in a range of IPs they didn't consider worthy of sending e-mail. Of course, when I followed the perscribed course of action to contact actual humans several times, I got no responses.
Instead, I just set my local SMTP server to route everything through my ISPs SMTP server. Problem solved, but I'm still irked.
Why is JAvaScript a poor language? Is it because the language is so concise the spec for it is readable in one sitting? Is it because of how robustly simple it is?
Perhaps what you're refrrign to is inconsistencies in browser's and old-skool problems from the days of Netscape and IE 3. NOw-a-days JAvaScript is the laymans name for ECMAScript which is a clean, standard, robust, simple but powerful language. It can be used in web pages, server-side components, embedded in dozens of other languages, etc. Heck, any WIndows guy worth their salt would prefer WSH with ECMAScript instead of batch files.
Yes, CSPAN is available to millions of people to watch,but, come on, not many people watch it. If those who felt like they need to vote against something because of a rider truly wanted to speak out about it, they'd make much more plublicity out of it. Perhaps the whole Democratic party should set aside funds for this. Use THIS informaiton against the Republicans the next time around.
I hate to say they need to make a music video and 30 second sound-bite out of the rider problem, but I know that whining on CSPAN doesn't get you heard by the majority of the public.
Both the parent and gradparent are right. The fact is, you're talking about apples and oranges.
When I look at things like Prevayler and XL2, I see systems designed for making it so your in-memory object graph is persistent in case of power loss. Yet these objects are still tradional objects with complete data encapsulation
When I looks at RMDBMSs, I see systems designed to store data, queried in arbitrary ways, and violating object-oriented encapsulation (your data is no longer only accessible through your object).
With an object persistence mechanism, if yo want to "Search" through your object graph, you have to build your own indices and lookup mechanisms (HashMap, TreeMap, BTree data structures in memory, etc.). With an RDBMS, you get that for free. THere are supposed to be OOBDMS that will let you do what you're used to in RDBMS, but I've not used one.
But the thing is, often all I need *is* object-graph persistence, not a full-blown RDBMS. And I can throw in a few hand-crafted mechanisms for indexed retrieval of my objects when necessary.
Too bad for that... Apple is probably just trying, like usual, to leverage it's involvement into more users of it's products. Scary, that... when you think of how far convergence and consolidation can take us.
I don't know about you, but I'm anxiously waiting for another super-hero, DVD Jon, to de-iTunes the full screen version for me!
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If that's the case, why did my university have to BUY tons of copies of Windows for all of its PCs? Why did I have to pay WAY more than the materials costs for textbooks?
Who's the idiot (how rude!)
Teaching somebody long division is quite different from taking somebody's recently published article about their research of using long divison and handing out copies to those third graders. It wasn't the fact that the professor was teaching a skill, but the materials he was teaching the skill with.
Should the professor have bought only one 23 year old text book, and make photocopies for every student in the class, do you think that somehow WOULDN'T be violating copyright just because his intent was to teach?
He was not excerpting. This was NOT fair use.
And if you've been to a univeristy book store lately, you'd know there's PLENTY of money to be had in selling educational materials (books, trade journals, etc.)
This has nothing to do with patents, and everything to do with the fact that the grandparent saw no commercial viability in an article that had enough value that the professor wanted to use it as teaching material -- I simply pointed out the contradiction in that.
Hey, I know exactly what you're saying. I'm just saying that the grandparent seemed to think that the article the professor was handing out copies of needed no copyright protection because he doubted the commercial value of it. 'm just pointing out that there was obviously some value in it if the professor thought it was valuable teaching material. If you've been to a university lately, you know there's a lot of money to be had in selling educational materials (visit the campus bookstore!)
Today in class, the professor handed out some copies that came out of IEEE Computer... ... how commercially valuable is a 23 year old article about parallel computing?
Sounds like your school found a viable purpose for such an article, and as part of your education I assume you (or someone else) is paying for, it is being commercially used. Did you professor violate copyright in handing it out, or did he actually pay for the rights to use it?
They'll just use junior management as scapegoats and have them go, or just continue their practices from jail.
One of the things I like about e-mail is that I have a permanent record to refer back to. I usualy don't take notes, especially electronically, when talking to someone in person. If I do at all, I do so afterwards when the memory is always fading.
Plus, with an e-mail, you can support your CYA policy.
Where I work, it's not the e-mail or instant message interrupting me so much as it's the person stopping by your cubicle *in person* to ask a question.
Quit being so quick to find evil in technology.
Can't remember any of us dying from it. Heck, I can't remember anyone getting *sick* from it
So maybe in smaller sustained doses, Amonia just causes memory loss instead of death? Better, but still bad :)
Now that the copyright issues have been sorted out...
As I was reading this sentence, my heart stopped and my mind jumped for joy. I thought the RIAA/MPAA/etc. had finally given up, congress had rolled back copyright terms, and the GPL was finally successfully tested in court.
Then I read the rest... *sigh* oh well.
Are younger people that dumb nowadays?
I hope not, because if they are, I must finally be old.
Hey, TERdON, you forgot to hyperlink that picture of breasts you were talking about. COme on, man, quit holding out... where's the link?!
I would hope the Planetary Society had some sort of insurance orequivalent guarantee form the RSA so that they could be restored to an equivalent financial state and try again.
Or! Maybe, as in Contact, the solar sail only cost $2M and the solar sail built in secrecy is already on the backup launching pad!
That's probably the signal the barely submnerged craft is emitting between the crests of waves as it floats aimlessly about the Barents Sea.
Hopefully they've have progressed to a better user interface. This one is old and clunky. No DHTML collapsable threads, no AJAX, no web service exposure...
Kind of like how a crazy shit who agrees with me is an activist, and a crazy shit who disagrees with me is a radical or extremist
No, no... the word is terrorist now...not extremist.
You've just gotta love Brazil's response:
"We're against software piracy. We believe Microsoft's rights should be respected. And the simplest way to respect their rights is for Brazilians everywhere to switch to free software."
I haven't seen anyone point out that XBox uses a Windows derivative and runs on nicely packaged commodity PC hardware. Whose to say Microsoft won't make it so game developers can write the game once and then easily tailor it to btoh platforms (if they haven't already)?
The XP box, while it doesn't crash per se, completely forgets it has a network card about every 58-64 days or so, but a reboot fixes it.
So why blame Windows? Why not blame the network card driver?
Yeah, I've had similar thoughts. Suppose Windows was supplanted by competition, or forced by anti-trust laws. Well, if MIcrosoft just just get everything ported to .NET, then they just need to get the .NET platform ported to whatever major OS platforms there are out there. MONO is doing that for Linux already...
.NET implementations, and start selling Office on each of those platforms."
Justice Dept.: "Microsoft, stop making Windows a monopoly"
Microsoft to Justice Dept.: "OK, no problem."
Microsoft to Self: "Release the
Got off the lists easily enough
How did you get off those lists?
I have trouble sending e-mail from my consumer DSL (not business DSL) to many RoadRunner cable customers. After digging through their poorly organized auto-responses and subsequent URLs, it seems I was in a range of IPs they didn't consider worthy of sending e-mail. Of course, when I followed the perscribed course of action to contact actual humans several times, I got no responses.
Instead, I just set my local SMTP server to route everything through my ISPs SMTP server. Problem solved, but I'm still irked.
Why is JAvaScript a poor language? Is it because the language is so concise the spec for it is readable in one sitting? Is it because of how robustly simple it is?
Perhaps what you're refrrign to is inconsistencies in browser's and old-skool problems from the days of Netscape and IE 3. NOw-a-days JAvaScript is the laymans name for ECMAScript which is a clean, standard, robust, simple but powerful language. It can be used in web pages, server-side components, embedded in dozens of other languages, etc. Heck, any WIndows guy worth their salt would prefer WSH with ECMAScript instead of batch files.
Do not confuse the language with its origins.
Yes, CSPAN is available to millions of people to watch,but, come on, not many people watch it. If those who felt like they need to vote against something because of a rider truly wanted to speak out about it, they'd make much more plublicity out of it. Perhaps the whole Democratic party should set aside funds for this. Use THIS informaiton against the Republicans the next time around.
I hate to say they need to make a music video and 30 second sound-bite out of the rider problem, but I know that whining on CSPAN doesn't get you heard by the majority of the public.
Both the parent and gradparent are right. The fact is, you're talking about apples and oranges.
When I look at things like Prevayler and XL2, I see systems designed for making it so your in-memory object graph is persistent in case of power loss. Yet these objects are still tradional objects with complete data encapsulation
When I looks at RMDBMSs, I see systems designed to store data, queried in arbitrary ways, and violating object-oriented encapsulation (your data is no longer only accessible through your object).
With an object persistence mechanism, if yo want to "Search" through your object graph, you have to build your own indices and lookup mechanisms (HashMap, TreeMap, BTree data structures in memory, etc.). With an RDBMS, you get that for free. THere are supposed to be OOBDMS that will let you do what you're used to in RDBMS, but I've not used one.
But the thing is, often all I need *is* object-graph persistence, not a full-blown RDBMS. And I can throw in a few hand-crafted mechanisms for indexed retrieval of my objects when necessary.
Too bad for that... Apple is probably just trying, like usual, to leverage it's involvement into more users of it's products. Scary, that... when you think of how far convergence and consolidation can take us.
I don't know about you, but I'm anxiously waiting for another super-hero, DVD Jon, to de-iTunes the full screen version for me!
the big hype was all about superconducting power lines etc...
Don't give up hope, nanotubes are the new superconductor!