>most people are honest about their gender unless they are in a chat room
Really? If asked for information, I lie about *everything*. And in the case of exit polls, I agree with the late Mike Royko that there is a moral obligation to lie.
Now you've got my curiosity up. Is this in X or a consle/xterm? And what version. Mine is 21.3 on FreeBSD (the default). When I've noticed a difference, it tended be that FreeBSD has used slightly less, rather than significantly more, memory than Linux.
Oh, come on. It took more than that 20 years ago:)
More seriously, I just launched one, and it immediately was using 9.5Mb on FreeBSD. It then did a couple of things on its own (???), displaying a notes buffer, and hopped up to 9.5Mb.
I shudder to think of what it will do if I actually type anything in its window . ..
Most of the movie is only PG, with the R parts gratuitiously and irrelevantly thrown in to lure teenage boys into the theater.
That, and some are R for other reasons, such as intensity, which may oor may not be approriate for the individual chinld.
With mine, the "turn your head" bit works just fine. I don't really need this technology. I'm reacting to the suggestion that parenting is the issue here--technologies like these actually give *more* options to the parent who is actually there and involve,d not less.
Since when did a Windows operating system come with directories shared by default with the obvious exception of the SharedDocs directory?
Err, isn't that one of the basic problems with Windows? That every couple of weeks, someone again discovers that your entire disk is shared with the world?
Just think of it: having a movie on any windows machine with an internet connection will now be illegal:)
If you lock up every parent my age who ever smoked that stuff, I and a few others will end up with about 100 foster kids each . . . and if you extend it to underage drinking . ..
Assuming that the parents are missing while the children watch is entirely missing the point.
Unless you've already watched the movie a few times, you'd be hard pressed to use your controls to skip the parts that you not only don't want your kids to see, but don't want to see yourself. ALso, you'll generally be limited to fast-forward in this regard, leaving the nudity, sex, and exploding bodies there to view.
My 14 year old enjoys the same kind of SF and fantasy movies that I do. Many, though, toss in their share of gratuitious nudity and sex that make the movie inappropriate for her now (and particularly 4 years ago). She watches these with me, but currently it's a "turn your head while I fast forward" situation. (And frequently, she's faster than I am [And, yes, I *am* glad that she still finds anything more than a brief kiss to be gross!]).
hawk, who usually finds Eddie Murphy funnier after the network censors.
He may well use it, but it's such an obvious phrase that I'm certain that it's been used repeatedly by those who have never heard it elsewhere. I'm reasonably certain that I'd never heard it before starting to use it . ..
It was used in a very early "Married with Children".
Two attractive stewardesses try to take Al to bed, and in the end, he turns them down. He says something to the effect of, "Yes, she's a git--but she's my git."
- random three-letter combination that is pronounceable, and not actually used by any common UNIX command.
Well, *duh*!
Self respecting unix commands have two letters, noto three, and, furthemore, are not pronounceable.
That mkdir and rmdir use more than two letters is a long-standing bug--longer even than the screwy footnote/gap bug in words (which dates to Mac Word 1.0)
If you didn't sign those forms, but just paid for the pictures, it would be a work for hire.
No. That's just incorrect. They're *notifying* you to cut down on illegal copying.
Might want to check what your contract with your Uni says, because unless there is a specific exemption, then your lectures are a basic part of your service and would be a work for hire.
Again, that's just plain wrong and inconsistent with the law.
In fact, Penn State has had to deal with the situation in web coursers that were much closer to work for hire and in which faculty then claimed intellectual property rights. Faculty now have to sign over IP rights which they would otherwise own.
Work for hire requries *much* more than hiring someone.
If the university specified how and what to do, perhaps. In the typical university, however, the faculty receives, at most, a paragraph from the course catalog listing topics. We take it from there, designing from the ground up.
The situation may well be different in those web-based mills. They generally *do* specify what is to happen, and how it is to happen.
Consider a typical trip to a children's photographer. The parents exert about as much creative control as a real college or university does with its professors. "Make nice picture of kids" is the charge and the photographer keeps the copyright (which is why more copies are so expensive). The university says, "Teach these topics," exercising no more creative control than the kids' parents.
You have an *absolute* right to use that information. The information isn't IP *at all*.
It's the lecture presentation and content that's protected.
You can even write your own book explaining every last thing you learned to the world, and earn billions in sales without owing a dime to your prof (though a thanks would certainly be in line--and maybe even a nice bottle of single malt:)
First of all, alumni, taxpayers, and other contributers are paying more than that for your education--your tuition is a relatively small part of the cost.
Secondly, I, like most faculty, am subsidising you at a multiple of my faculty salary. I could make several times as much in industry, but I think this is more important. The dollars that faculty give up because they think that educating you is a worthwhile thing simply dwarf the dollars you pay to be there.
I was amazed at the obviousness of it the first time a prof handed them out. In fact, he'd discovered that the discount on the book for bundling something else with it (the slides) completely covered the cost to students--it was something like a penny's difference.
I stopped taking notes as a student (well, almost--a line or too in a 4x6" per class) when I discovered just how much more I could retain and learn by giving my full attention to the lecture (then again, my recall is good enough to correct other people's notes).
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He only lies about them 92% of the time, which required him to lie here, too . . .
hawk
"I am pentium of the borg.
Division is futile.
You will be approximated."
hawk
>most people are honest about their gender unless they are in a chat room
Really? If asked for information, I lie about *everything*. And in the case of exit polls, I agree with the late Mike Royko that there is a moral obligation to lie.
hawk
This only seems to allow for three more major releases . .
hawk
Now you've got my curiosity up. Is this in X or a consle/xterm? And what version. Mine is 21.3 on FreeBSD (the default). When I've noticed a difference, it tended be that FreeBSD has used slightly less, rather than significantly more, memory than Linux.
hawk
Exactly. Thus all bugs, and not self-respecting.
Actually, they buy them for their kids--you get more 8 megapixel pictures of the grandkids that way :)
hawk
>With that comparison, my Emacs session is 6MB.
:)
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Oh, come on. It took more than that 20 years ago
More seriously, I just launched one, and it immediately was using 9.5Mb on FreeBSD. It then did a couple of things on its own (???), displaying a notes buffer, and hopped up to 9.5Mb.
I shudder to think of what it will do if I actually type anything in its window . .
hawk
I don't.
Most of the movie is only PG, with the R parts gratuitiously and irrelevantly thrown in to lure teenage boys into the theater.
That, and some are R for other reasons, such as intensity, which may oor may not be approriate for the individual chinld.
With mine, the "turn your head" bit works just fine. I don't really need this technology. I'm reacting to the suggestion that parenting is the issue here--technologies like these actually give *more* options to the parent who is actually there and involve,d not less.
hawk
This is no different than when Microsoft released an Office for Mac.
With the minor problem that the components of Office on the mac predate any version of Windows that anyone actually bought by several years . .
hawk
Since when did a Windows operating system come with directories shared by default with the obvious exception of the SharedDocs directory?
:)
Err, isn't that one of the basic problems with Windows? That every couple of weeks, someone again discovers that your entire disk is shared with the world?
Just think of it: having a movie on any windows machine with an internet connection will now be illegal
hawk
If you lock up every parent my age who ever smoked that stuff, I and a few others will end up with about 100 foster kids each . . . and if you extend it to underage drinking . . .
hawk
Given the frequency with which the "naughty" is just plain gratuitious: yes, I do.
hawk
Which one are you suggesting is properly named, and which are you suggesting isn't pronouncable???
hawk
Hey, knock that off.
Why, every time I see it, I get even further insight into the evil of, uhm, whatever they've warned me about these last couple of thousand times.
hawk
Assuming that the parents are missing while the children watch is entirely missing the point.
Unless you've already watched the movie a few times, you'd be hard pressed to use your controls to skip the parts that you not only don't want your kids to see, but don't want to see yourself. ALso, you'll generally be limited to fast-forward in this regard, leaving the nudity, sex, and exploding bodies there to view.
My 14 year old enjoys the same kind of SF and fantasy movies that I do. Many, though, toss in their share of gratuitious nudity and sex that make the movie inappropriate for her now (and particularly 4 years ago). She watches these with me, but currently it's a "turn your head while I fast forward" situation. (And frequently, she's faster than I am [And, yes, I *am* glad that she still finds anything more than a brief kiss to be gross!]).
hawk, who usually finds Eddie Murphy funnier after the network censors.
He may well use it, but it's such an obvious phrase that I'm certain that it's been used repeatedly by those who have never heard it elsewhere. I'm reasonably certain that I'd never heard it before starting to use it . . .
hawk
It was used in a very early "Married with Children".
Two attractive stewardesses try to take Al to bed, and in the end, he turns them down. He says something to the effect of, "Yes, she's a git--but she's my git."
hawk
- random three-letter combination that is pronounceable, and not actually used by any common UNIX command.
Well, *duh*!
Self respecting unix commands have two letters, noto three, and, furthemore, are not pronounceable.
That mkdir and rmdir use more than two letters is a long-standing bug--longer even than the screwy footnote/gap bug in words (which dates to Mac Word 1.0)
hawk
If you didn't sign those forms, but just paid for the pictures, it would be a work for hire.
No. That's just incorrect. They're *notifying* you to cut down on illegal copying.
Might want to check what your contract with your Uni says, because unless there is a specific exemption, then your lectures are a basic part of your service and would be a work for hire.
Again, that's just plain wrong and inconsistent with the law.
In fact, Penn State has had to deal with the situation in web coursers that were much closer to work for hire and in which faculty then claimed intellectual property rights. Faculty now have to sign over IP rights which they would otherwise own.
Work for hire requries *much* more than hiring someone.
hawk
Some years ago, Penn State filmed the lectures of a popular engineering professor.
.
After he died, they negotiated with his widow, and a dead man taught courses . .
hawk, who wishes that he was making this up
There's not even a weak case.
If the university specified how and what to do, perhaps. In the typical university, however, the faculty receives, at most, a paragraph from the course catalog listing topics. We take it from there, designing from the ground up.
The situation may well be different in those web-based mills. They generally *do* specify what is to happen, and how it is to happen.
Consider a typical trip to a children's photographer. The parents exert about as much creative control as a real college or university does with its professors. "Make nice picture of kids" is the charge and the photographer keeps the copyright (which is why more copies are so expensive). The university says, "Teach these topics," exercising no more creative control than the kids' parents.
hawk
That's not the issue at all.
:)
You have an *absolute* right to use that information. The information isn't IP *at all*.
It's the lecture presentation and content that's protected.
You can even write your own book explaining every last thing you learned to the world, and earn billions in sales without owing a dime to your prof (though a thanks would certainly be in line--and maybe even a nice bottle of single malt
hawk
First of all, alumni, taxpayers, and other contributers are paying more than that for your education--your tuition is a relatively small part of the cost.
Secondly, I, like most faculty, am subsidising you at a multiple of my faculty salary. I could make several times as much in industry, but I think this is more important. The dollars that faculty give up because they think that educating you is a worthwhile thing simply dwarf the dollars you pay to be there.
hawk
That's why I hand out slides.
I was amazed at the obviousness of it the first time a prof handed them out. In fact, he'd discovered that the discount on the book for bundling something else with it (the slides) completely covered the cost to students--it was something like a penny's difference.
I stopped taking notes as a student (well, almost--a line or too in a 4x6" per class) when I discovered just how much more I could retain and learn by giving my full attention to the lecture (then again, my recall is good enough to correct other people's notes).
hawk