Copyright, a form of intellectual property law, protects original works of authorship including literary, dramatic, musical, and artistic works, such as poetry, novels, movies, songs, computer software, and architecture. Copyright does not protect facts, ideas, systems, or methods of operation, although it may protect the way these things are expressed. See Circular 1, Copyright Basics, section "What Works Are Protected."
I was having similar problems (Uverse though, not Comcast). On a lark, I dug an old Ethernet cable out of storage and ran it from my gateway router to my desk. Problem solved.
That's not faking delivery though. The data is actually being delivered, just from a different source. I don't give a shit where the data comes from our how it gets to me*, I care about how fast my page loads.
* except for the handful of times per month I do something sensitive, like online banking, but that's all encrypted.
Seriously. Every huge, impossible project is made up of a bunch of smaller projects that are totally doable, plus maybe a couple that are actually hard. Divide and conquer is one of the most important skills you can develop as a programmer. Start with the first easy thing you can think of that you'll need to do before you get to the big hard thing, and get some code on the screen. Keep doing that. Pretty soon you'll find you have most of it done.
And as for the reading thing, you should expect to be spending more time reading than writing code. I think my time is about 50/50 now, and I've been coding professionally for three years, after doing a BS and about 70% of a master's in comp sci.
Creditors who do not act in a timely manner when an estate is closing or a corporation is being liquidated are simply SoL.
You might consider Reading The Fine Summary. I know, that's Crazy Talk! But, if you had, you might have noticed something about the statute of limitations (lawyer speak for "timely manner") has been lifted on these types of debt.
They aren't hitting one guy. They are contracting with the city to guarantee that there will be at least one cop in the specified area 24/7. That actually works out to 4 or 5 cops once you figure in shifts, days off, etc.
Depends on the industry. I do know a few people who only develop for the web, but that's because they work in web development. As a tools dev contractor in the game industry I have never been asked to write anything web based. Not even by my clients who are developing web games.
I think other authors have done a better job with postulating advances in technology. A few examples:
Charles Stross - Accelerando - One of the more believable and compelling projections of computer tech that I've read in a long time.
Linda Nagata - Vast - Similar projections for computer tech as above, plus genetic engineering. This was a recent random find in a used book store for me, and apparently the fourth book in a series called The Nanotech Succession. I will definitely be looking for more of her stuff.
Paolo Bacigalupi - The Windup Girl - Definitely the best I've seen for projection in biotech, and it hit me in a similar way as the first time I read Neuromancer a few decades ago. Definitely not for children, though. Pump Six And Other Stories is a collection of short stories set in the same world, but I don't know how well they would hold up on their own without the deeper context that TWG provides.
But if you really want to rant, perhaps you should encourage more men to become K-6 teachers or nurses or therapists, to even out the gender gap there.
There's plenty of discussion about how we need more men in nursing and K-6 education, it's just happening on forums you aren't paying attention too. Perhaps you could pull your head out of your ass and google yourself up a bit of education on those topics. I can't speak to therapists, but then all of the relatively few therapists I've met are men.
Wrong. That might be the case in particular jurisdictions (LA and SF would not surprise me) but it certainly isn't that way in the whole state. All that's necessary is 30 days written notice naming the person(s) on the lease/rental agreement and however many John/Jane Does you think are necessary (it's recommended that number be generous). No need to get cops involved unless the tenant(s) refuse to vacate, but I suspect that's the case in every state.
Jack, and shit. As someone who worked in construction for 10 years and now has 3 years experience as a software developer, allow me to present a rebuttal:
The bricklayer is an independent contractor who signed a contract to deliver a finished wall on a certain date for a certain price. How much or how little time it takes him to complete the job is his own business. He gets paid the same amount regardless. Whether he's super awesome and completes the wall in half the time, or he's a screw-up who ends up putting in 80 hour weeks tearing down sections and rebuilding them, he gets paid the same.
That contract was created in the context of a STRICT waterfall development model. The dimensions, materials, and probably even the pattern the bricks are to be laid in have already been specified, in detail, by the architect/engineer. All the bricklayer has to do is lay bricks. He's not doing any design work. If there's a design flaw in the wall, that's not his fault, and fixing it will cost you extra. If the design changes after the contract was signed, that's probably also going to cost you extra. If modifications are made after the the bricklayer completed his work on a section of wall, any structural weaknesses introduced by those modification are not his fault and fixing them will cost you extra. You see where this is going, right?
In cases where the bricklayer is an hourly employee rather than an independent contractor, there is no way in hell he's fixing anything on his own time. You are paying for every minute he's working. Period. If you hired a screw-up bricklayer (probably the cheapest one you could find), you're eating those costs.
Even if you don't carry a balance, cancelling a card still hurts your score since the reporting agencies don't distinguish between reasons why that line of credit was cancelled.
Okay but American blacks have NEVER felt like part of mainstream society and they are definitely the least prosperous group. That's a great big gaping hole in the theory that needs to be explained.
There is no gaping hole in the theory here, you've just failed to understand it.
Having a culture that glorifies violence and street crime and actively persecutes those who want education really, really doesn't help. That's what gangsta culture does.
I completely agree with you, and so does the article. Gangsta culture is all about glorifying poor impulse control. Note that impulse control is one of the things the article says is essential to success (and not just this article, there are tons of studies backing up that assertion). Additionally, that glorification of negative achievement promotes the opposite of the second item on the list of essentials, "insecurity, a feeling that you or what you've done is not good enough."
No group could thrive with that. So the real question is why the nearly suicidal anti-achievement attitude? Where does it come from? Why can't people understand that embracing it means forever denying yourself your true protential? The successful black people who own businesses, enter the professions, and work in academia all have one thing in common: they rejected thug culture and growing up, they were often targeted and harasses and assaulted because of it. Not by whites, but by fellow American blacks.
Again, you are correct, and the article agrees with you:
"The first is a superiority complex — a deep-seated belief in their exceptionality."
This is really the big issue facing the African American community, IMO. This one is about having a sense of racial/ethnic/cultural superiority, and they've been told they're inferior so often and for so long that they've come to believe it. People fight hard to defend their beliefs, even when those beliefs are harmful to themselves. The evidence of their inferiority (their inability to overcome the oppression of The Man) is all around them, so it's easy to excuse a lack of personal success. And if they're prevented from achieving success within mainstream culture they must seek it elsewhere, meaning the underground economy and the thug culture that comes with it. Anyone similar to them who is able to achieve mainstream success is a threat to that narrative, and stands as a silent accusation that their of mainstream success might be due to personal failure rather than the inevitable result of powerful forces working against them.
To sum up, in the language of the article:
The typical Successful Immigrant has a sense of ethnic superiority, personal inferiority, and strong impulse control, and this is why they are successful. The typical Gangsta Thug has a sense of ethnic inferiority, personal superiority, and poor impulse control, and this is why they are not successful.
This is China we're talking about. They will get whatever source code, specs, etc they ask for, because whoever refuses will find themselves in prison, probably with their company nationalized. That sort of thing happens regularly in China, for far less capricious reasons than this.
Yes, the law is the law, but some laws leave a lot of room for interpretation, and some cops can be very creative. Here's an example to illustrate my point:
My brother-in-law (we'll call him Dave) is a CHP officer. One day he spotted a van on the freeway that was weaving a lot. It was a clear day, mid afternoon, and the van was going 65mph, which is the posted speed limit on that section of road. Upon pulling the van over, Dave discovered that the driver had a punch bowl full of soup in his lap which he was attempting to eat with a large serving spoon. Dave wrote the driver a ticket for going 65mph over the legal speed limit. His argument was based on the California Basic Speed law, which allows an officer to cite a driver for going faster than what the officer deems is safe under the current conditions. In Dave's opinion, the only speed at which it is safe for a driver to eat soup out of a punch bowl is zero, and this driver was going 65mph faster than that.
FWIW, Dave fully expected that ticket to get thrown out by a judge, and he had no doubt that the driver would fight it since he estimated the fine would be about $2000. But he also felt certain the driver would never do that again, and that he would probably tell all his friends about this crazy ticket he got, and those friends would likely also never try anything that stupid. Mission accomplished as far as Dave was concerned.
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... (copyright does not cover the implementation).
Wrong. Copyright does cover implementation. That's the only thing it covers. Or are you unaware that software is under copyright protection?
Content quoted from http://copyright.gov/help/faq/...
What does copyright protect?
Copyright, a form of intellectual property law, protects original works of authorship including literary, dramatic, musical, and artistic works, such as poetry, novels, movies, songs, computer software, and architecture. Copyright does not protect facts, ideas, systems, or methods of operation, although it may protect the way these things are expressed. See Circular 1, Copyright Basics, section "What Works Are Protected."
I was having similar problems (Uverse though, not Comcast). On a lark, I dug an old Ethernet cable out of storage and ran it from my gateway router to my desk. Problem solved.
That's not faking delivery though. The data is actually being delivered, just from a different source. I don't give a shit where the data comes from our how it gets to me*, I care about how fast my page loads.
* except for the handful of times per month I do something sensitive, like online banking, but that's all encrypted.
Yeah, Mono...
If you don't mind being stuck at .NET 3.5, and don't care about WPF support. No thanks. Mono is a joke.
Seriously. Every huge, impossible project is made up of a bunch of smaller projects that are totally doable, plus maybe a couple that are actually hard. Divide and conquer is one of the most important skills you can develop as a programmer. Start with the first easy thing you can think of that you'll need to do before you get to the big hard thing, and get some code on the screen. Keep doing that. Pretty soon you'll find you have most of it done.
And as for the reading thing, you should expect to be spending more time reading than writing code. I think my time is about 50/50 now, and I've been coding professionally for three years, after doing a BS and about 70% of a master's in comp sci.
Creditors who do not act in a timely manner when an estate is closing or a corporation is being liquidated are simply SoL.
You might consider Reading The Fine Summary. I know, that's Crazy Talk! But, if you had, you might have noticed something about the statute of limitations (lawyer speak for "timely manner") has been lifted on these types of debt.
I've never seen microwave popcorn burned by accident. It's always been intentional to cover up the smell of smoking pot.
They aren't hitting one guy. They are contracting with the city to guarantee that there will be at least one cop in the specified area 24/7. That actually works out to 4 or 5 cops once you figure in shifts, days off, etc.
This. FBX is terrible. The best I can say about it is that it's not quite as bad as Microsoft's OpenXML formats.
Depends on the industry. I do know a few people who only develop for the web, but that's because they work in web development. As a tools dev contractor in the game industry I have never been asked to write anything web based. Not even by my clients who are developing web games.
It's how unions work in the USA, too. GP is an idiot, and has obviously learned everything he "knows" about unions from Libertarian ideologues.
I think other authors have done a better job with postulating advances in technology. A few examples:
Charles Stross - Accelerando - One of the more believable and compelling projections of computer tech that I've read in a long time.
Linda Nagata - Vast - Similar projections for computer tech as above, plus genetic engineering. This was a recent random find in a used book store for me, and apparently the fourth book in a series called The Nanotech Succession. I will definitely be looking for more of her stuff.
Paolo Bacigalupi - The Windup Girl - Definitely the best I've seen for projection in biotech, and it hit me in a similar way as the first time I read Neuromancer a few decades ago. Definitely not for children, though. Pump Six And Other Stories is a collection of short stories set in the same world, but I don't know how well they would hold up on their own without the deeper context that TWG provides.
But if you really want to rant, perhaps you should encourage more men to become K-6 teachers or nurses or therapists, to even out the gender gap there.
There's plenty of discussion about how we need more men in nursing and K-6 education, it's just happening on forums you aren't paying attention too. Perhaps you could pull your head out of your ass and google yourself up a bit of education on those topics. I can't speak to therapists, but then all of the relatively few therapists I've met are men.
Nobody is complaining about the paucity of male elementary school teachers.
Yes, they are, you just haven't been paying attention to the forums where those conversations are happening. A tiny bit of Googling would educate you.
Wrong. That might be the case in particular jurisdictions (LA and SF would not surprise me) but it certainly isn't that way in the whole state. All that's necessary is 30 days written notice naming the person(s) on the lease/rental agreement and however many John/Jane Does you think are necessary (it's recommended that number be generous). No need to get cops involved unless the tenant(s) refuse to vacate, but I suspect that's the case in every state.
Jack, and shit. As someone who worked in construction for 10 years and now has 3 years experience as a software developer, allow me to present a rebuttal:
The bricklayer is an independent contractor who signed a contract to deliver a finished wall on a certain date for a certain price. How much or how little time it takes him to complete the job is his own business. He gets paid the same amount regardless. Whether he's super awesome and completes the wall in half the time, or he's a screw-up who ends up putting in 80 hour weeks tearing down sections and rebuilding them, he gets paid the same.
That contract was created in the context of a STRICT waterfall development model. The dimensions, materials, and probably even the pattern the bricks are to be laid in have already been specified, in detail, by the architect/engineer. All the bricklayer has to do is lay bricks. He's not doing any design work. If there's a design flaw in the wall, that's not his fault, and fixing it will cost you extra. If the design changes after the contract was signed, that's probably also going to cost you extra. If modifications are made after the the bricklayer completed his work on a section of wall, any structural weaknesses introduced by those modification are not his fault and fixing them will cost you extra. You see where this is going, right?
In cases where the bricklayer is an hourly employee rather than an independent contractor, there is no way in hell he's fixing anything on his own time. You are paying for every minute he's working. Period. If you hired a screw-up bricklayer (probably the cheapest one you could find), you're eating those costs.
I'd be really impressed if someone managed to get anything to stick on Issa. He's as dirty as they come, but it doesn't seem to make a difference.
Even if you don't carry a balance, cancelling a card still hurts your score since the reporting agencies don't distinguish between reasons why that line of credit was cancelled.
Okay but American blacks have NEVER felt like part of mainstream society and they are definitely the least prosperous group. That's a great big gaping hole in the theory that needs to be explained.
There is no gaping hole in the theory here, you've just failed to understand it.
Having a culture that glorifies violence and street crime and actively persecutes those who want education really, really doesn't help. That's what gangsta culture does.
I completely agree with you, and so does the article. Gangsta culture is all about glorifying poor impulse control. Note that impulse control is one of the things the article says is essential to success (and not just this article, there are tons of studies backing up that assertion). Additionally, that glorification of negative achievement promotes the opposite of the second item on the list of essentials, "insecurity, a feeling that you or what you've done is not good enough."
No group could thrive with that. So the real question is why the nearly suicidal anti-achievement attitude? Where does it come from? Why can't people understand that embracing it means forever denying yourself your true protential? The successful black people who own businesses, enter the professions, and work in academia all have one thing in common: they rejected thug culture and growing up, they were often targeted and harasses and assaulted because of it. Not by whites, but by fellow American blacks.
Again, you are correct, and the article agrees with you:
"The first is a superiority complex — a deep-seated belief in their exceptionality."
This is really the big issue facing the African American community, IMO. This one is about having a sense of racial/ethnic/cultural superiority, and they've been told they're inferior so often and for so long that they've come to believe it. People fight hard to defend their beliefs, even when those beliefs are harmful to themselves. The evidence of their inferiority (their inability to overcome the oppression of The Man) is all around them, so it's easy to excuse a lack of personal success. And if they're prevented from achieving success within mainstream culture they must seek it elsewhere, meaning the underground economy and the thug culture that comes with it. Anyone similar to them who is able to achieve mainstream success is a threat to that narrative, and stands as a silent accusation that their of mainstream success might be due to personal failure rather than the inevitable result of powerful forces working against them.
To sum up, in the language of the article:
The typical Successful Immigrant has a sense of ethnic superiority, personal inferiority, and strong impulse control, and this is why they are successful.
The typical Gangsta Thug has a sense of ethnic inferiority, personal superiority, and poor impulse control, and this is why they are not successful.
Where is the hole in the theory?
Why? What technical advantages would UnixWare give them over Linux? It seems like a lot of extra work for no real benefit.
Copyright covers only a specific implementation of an idea.
Patent covers the idea itself.
The length of copyright terms is not relevant if I write my own implementation from scratch.
This is China we're talking about. They will get whatever source code, specs, etc they ask for, because whoever refuses will find themselves in prison, probably with their company nationalized. That sort of thing happens regularly in China, for far less capricious reasons than this.
What would a Chinese Snowden blow his whistle on? Everyone in China already knows their government is spying on them.
Buy it? Because the Chinese totally give a shit about IP rights?
Yes, the law is the law, but some laws leave a lot of room for interpretation, and some cops can be very creative. Here's an example to illustrate my point:
My brother-in-law (we'll call him Dave) is a CHP officer. One day he spotted a van on the freeway that was weaving a lot. It was a clear day, mid afternoon, and the van was going 65mph, which is the posted speed limit on that section of road. Upon pulling the van over, Dave discovered that the driver had a punch bowl full of soup in his lap which he was attempting to eat with a large serving spoon. Dave wrote the driver a ticket for going 65mph over the legal speed limit. His argument was based on the California Basic Speed law, which allows an officer to cite a driver for going faster than what the officer deems is safe under the current conditions. In Dave's opinion, the only speed at which it is safe for a driver to eat soup out of a punch bowl is zero, and this driver was going 65mph faster than that.
FWIW, Dave fully expected that ticket to get thrown out by a judge, and he had no doubt that the driver would fight it since he estimated the fine would be about $2000. But he also felt certain the driver would never do that again, and that he would probably tell all his friends about this crazy ticket he got, and those friends would likely also never try anything that stupid. Mission accomplished as far as Dave was concerned.