No.. They realized that if they forced the issue they would not have ANY artists willing to go into indentured servitued/slavery for the next 10 years for their work. Look at artists like George Michael and Prince they essentially were screwed by their contracts (thats why George Michael didn't make an albums for 10 years).
How the hell can they call it "work for hire" that would be like hiring someone and saying they write the music and the lyrics and hire people to play them. Somehow, I don't think thats anything close to what happens...
Have the 1st semester focus on Software Design (from how to determine requirements to how to design for usability).
Then have the 2nd semester do the project
Pick something REAL and doable. Something that schools can use. A web based calendar system with administration aspects, user aspects, etc.
Design methods is the one thing I wish school had tought me. Its the most important part of programming and its the one part usually forgotten. and ignored.
Spending 1 month of solid design work can easily save 3 months of testing and debugging in a complex program.
The problem is that the RIAA is going after Napster (software developers) instead of the individuals who are actually stealing (the people who download copyrighted music).
They are being targeted because THEY are visible and can be made an example. The music industry would be insane to go after the actual individuals downloading the material (although I bet they would if they could)..
By the RIAA's logic, they should be sueing 3M/Acer/etc. for manufacturing CDR media, HP/SONY/Phillips/etc. for producing CDR devices, Diamond MM/etc. for producing MP3 Players... Napster isn't illegal, people CAN use it for illegal purposes (same as a car, a baseball bat, a knife, etc.)..
The court should (and God willing will) rule against the RIAA for the simple fact, the tool isn't doing something illegal.. Its a file sharing tool that happens to focus on MP3's. The people downloading and sharing the MP3's are the ones breaking the law
And this doesn't even take into account the argument that since they aren't making a profit on the downloads, then they AREN'T breaking the copyright laws...
Why should owning previous aging non-digital media grant you the right to perfect copies of new, cleaner media? I mean, that's like expecting Ford to give you a new car for free because you bought one 6 years ago
No.. The problem is that you aren't purchasing the music. You are purchasing a tape that happens to have music on it. If it breaks (because they designed it to), Tough ! You have to purchase a new one.
They are trying to make it so that if I purchase a CD, I can't dup the CD to CDR (or to a casette) so that I can leave the CD in my nice air conditioned house and use the CDR/casette in my car... (the same right you DO have with software - to duplicate it and save the original)..
Why the hell should I have to purchase a copy on CD so that when I'm in my office, I can listen to it on my computers CD player, a copy on casette to play in my walkman when I'm on the tredmill, or to rip an MP3 to play it on my RIO ?
There's DAMN good reasons why the technology in the shuttle isn't updated often.
Reliabily of hardware. 100% Debugged Software
Would you want to pilot the 1st shuttle that was rewritten using some whizbang processor and the latest software language instead of 30 year old code on hardware that you KNOW works exactly as intended. The shuttle software is nearly identical to the stuff in the apollo space craft. The main changes occurred because of the control interface (the shuttle has a "stick", like a plane).
This is incorrect. DeCSS is a WINDOWS PROGRAM to descramble and copy the files from a DVD to the hard drive. Once it's on the drive then it can be played back by just about anything (including linux, SCO, Solaris, etc.)
Its a PROGRAM.. It just happens to run in Winblows. The reason it runs on winblows is the simple fact that inorder to test it you need a platform that already has drivers so you can make sure you are decrypting properly.
Amusing use of the referrer property by zap2it.com: if and only if you clicked on this story from Slashdot, you get the final line, "In a related story, Natalie Portman got hot grits poured on her by rabid slashdot fans."
(Unfortunately, whatever they were doing behind the scenes, that managed to break the "back to headlines" link badly.)
Not true.. Otherwise every person in the store would have an easment (spelling?) on the property. And just publishing something doesn't releive you of a copyright. You have the right to say "This copyrighted information is freely available from HERE and here alone. Any other source of this material is a violation of my copyright".
Not all BSDers.. I use FreeBSD on my home systems AND I have a RH 6.1 Linux server for running a Half Life Server...
Many BSD users have a different mind set than do Linux users. In general I LIKE knowing exactly when someone says "I Run FreeBSD 4.0 Current" compared to someone saying "I run GNU/Linux".. I know exactly what the FreeBSD person is running, the Linux person could be running any number of distros, kernel versions, etc.
As for the BSD vs. GPL, if I were a company I would MUCH prefer the BSD license, at least I know that my code can't be used without me getting credit for it. Yes the license is more restrictive but thats life..
Its a personal choice. Both licenses (And BSD vs. GNU/Linux) have their place. Better a BSD source license then no source...
Then people are going to be waiting for a LONG while then for the latest and greatest drivers. The money is made in sales.
If the market (and money) were to be made here in Linux, more companies would be jumping on the Linux bandwagon. But its not (at least, not yet).
The PHB's aren't thinking future and if a company would have to relenquish control of proprietary HW that they developed just so a "fringe" group can play Diablo II on their gForce II cards, oh well.
The kernel developers are being too stubborn for our own good. Make 2 interfaces, one for compiled/builtin drivers and one for external ones. Then you can say "If you want the best speed open source it and use the built in interface so the newest kernels can use it, or use the external module interface if you want to keep it close sourced yet allow new versions access"...
Actually, Adobe works very closely with it's largest customers (I work for one of them) to determine the features that their next product should have as well as which features are causing confusing among it's users. And it's not the coders that make the actual decisions, it's the product managers who talk with tech support and sales in order to have a product developed that will spur people to buy it or upgrade their current copies. If you're a customer of theirs, and a feature you want to see included isn't there, AND it's a feature that many other people want as well, you CAN call and try to make a difference.
But how many people actually would even be SEEN by adobe. Only companys that have several 100+ copies of Photoshop (a single graphic artist who needs ONE feature to make his life easier isn't even going to be listened to by a huge corporation).
And this is entirely what the free market system is about.. Supply and demand.. Because "legal" (or illegal depending on your point of view) won't supply WHAT the market wants, the market will evolve and change until it can supply the product wanted.
This is how the market works and keeps itself in check. Business has an incentive to listen the customers (most of the time) otherwise they find themselves in the lurch...
The government doesn't trust the average schmo to find his way home let alone to build a rocket. Since it is them (and their other government friends) that control all of the technology in the space buisness do you think they are going to let just anybody use it? Not without paying dearly, at least. The biggest downside (to them) is how much they have to pay to keep up the illusion of high prices. They could be using that money for much better purposes... like invading Canada... or measuring the speed of various Catsups/Ketchups
I can't belive it took this long for this to get into print. I bet most people believed (or at least suspected) that the government is using their "monopolistic" hold on the space program to charge high prices. If they can't make any money on it, why should you ?
Some Picket Signs for this one: "If you can't trust your citizens who can you trust?" They don't trust anyone, why else have they become so pervasive in our lives (v-chips so parents don't have to monitor their children's TV habits like all of our parents did, the welfare system...)
"Come on, this is rocketry not brain surgery." I see someone watches a little "Emeril Live!"
The HP printer lines aren't even driver compatable. The HP 820 doesn't speak the same language as the other HP printers (hence its lack of support by other non WinTel langugages)..
So their own printers can't talk the same language how the hell will they handle internet printing ?
I soooo agree with you. My mother had my 3 older bother^H^H^H^H^H^Hbrothers... ages 4,3, and 2.. She had LEASHES so that they could only SO far but no more..
Nowadays, the civil rights twits would be screaming "abuse".. Hell no.. They are trying to prevent abuse (basically keeping the kids where they belong so you don't have to beat them).. I mean.. come on.. Have any of you seen how scool is taught now ? With the touchey feely was to make kids feel better (so they no longer grade A, B, C, etc. ).. No wonder kids can't spell..
And what's to keep "lil johnny" from tying his bracelet to a dog and letting the dog run wild ? If anyone can figure out ways to get around their parents, the kids can..
The parents are no longer parents, they are the kids "friends"... Screw That ! Kids need parents who will TEACH them right from wrong. If the lazy parents don't pay attention to their kids and TEACH THEM and LISTEN TO THEM, we will have worse indicdents than Columbine...
The congress/senate don't know ? how the hell do you think an agency like this gets funding. They are prolly better funded than the social security agency and the FBI and CIA..
Secrets are what the government wants. They don't care about whose secrets they are.
<rant on> I swear.. I think its time for another revolution in this country where we correct the errors from the constitution (term limits, no "professional" politicians, the abolishment of the Federal Tax, reworking of the Social Security System, rework/abolishment of the welfare system).
As an aside, most people don't realize that the Federal Income Tax wasn't ratified by all the states and is therefore unconstitutional.. They don't realize any of the power they hold on the US Govt.
We elect these bozos and if they stay in office its our fault... If they aren't voting for the common good, then get them out of office and put someone in who will ! <rant off>
I think what is meant is the fact that regional encoding forces you to purchase DVD's for your region instead of from a cheaper location (like India).. Here in the USA you have to purchase Region 1 DVD's that will only play on a Region 1 DVD player (you can't play the region 2 DVD's you bought on your visit to England on your Region 1 DVD player)... Thats how its anti competative (I think... Since IANAL, IAAG...
Exactly.. How many people would be pissed to find out that the reason they needed the new 30GB disk is because M$ Excell has a spread sheet in it.. Or the IE 4.x has the stupid "We made this program" video stuff...
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No.. They realized that if they forced the issue they would not have ANY artists willing to go into indentured servitued/slavery for the next 10 years for their work. Look at artists like George Michael and Prince they essentially were screwed by their contracts (thats why George Michael didn't make an albums for 10 years).
How the hell can they call it "work for hire" that would be like hiring someone and saying they write the music and the lyrics and hire people to play them. Somehow, I don't think thats anything close to what happens...
Then have the 2nd semester do the project
Pick something REAL and doable. Something that schools can use. A web based calendar system with administration aspects, user aspects, etc.
Design methods is the one thing I wish school had tought me. Its the most important part of programming and its the one part usually forgotten. and ignored.
Spending 1 month of solid design work can easily save 3 months of testing and debugging in a complex program.
They are being targeted because THEY are visible and can be made an example. The music industry would be insane to go after the actual individuals downloading the material (although I bet they would if they could)..
By the RIAA's logic, they should be sueing 3M/Acer/etc. for manufacturing CDR media, HP/SONY/Phillips/etc. for producing CDR devices, Diamond MM/etc. for producing MP3 Players... Napster isn't illegal, people CAN use it for illegal purposes (same as a car, a baseball bat, a knife, etc.)..
The court should (and God willing will) rule against the RIAA for the simple fact, the tool isn't doing something illegal.. Its a file sharing tool that happens to focus on MP3's. The people downloading and sharing the MP3's are the ones breaking the law
And this doesn't even take into account the argument that since they aren't making a profit on the downloads, then they AREN'T breaking the copyright laws...
AND..
All our male system admins are married with spawned processes....
No.. The problem is that you aren't purchasing the music. You are purchasing a tape that happens to have music on it. If it breaks (because they designed it to), Tough ! You have to purchase a new one.
They are trying to make it so that if I purchase a CD, I can't dup the CD to CDR (or to a casette) so that I can leave the CD in my nice air conditioned house and use the CDR/casette in my car... (the same right you DO have with software - to duplicate it and save the original)..
Why the hell should I have to purchase a copy on CD so that when I'm in my office, I can listen to it on my computers CD player, a copy on casette to play in my walkman when I'm on the tredmill, or to rip an MP3 to play it on my RIO ?
Reliabily of hardware.
100% Debugged Software
Would you want to pilot the 1st shuttle that was rewritten using some whizbang processor and the latest software language instead of 30 year old code on hardware that you KNOW works exactly as intended. The shuttle software is nearly identical to the stuff in the apollo space craft. The main changes occurred because of the control interface (the shuttle has a "stick", like a plane).
Its a PROGRAM.. It just happens to run in Winblows. The reason it runs on winblows is the simple fact that inorder to test it you need a platform that already has drivers so you can make sure you are decrypting properly.
It also runs on Gnu/Linux AND on other OS's too.
Its only there if you go from the link on slashdot..
(Unfortunately, whatever they were doing behind the scenes, that managed to break the "back to headlines" link badly.)
Thats what I get for rushing the change in...
Its all better now...
Not true.. Otherwise every person in the store would have an easment (spelling?) on the property. And just publishing something doesn't releive you of a copyright. You have the right to say "This copyrighted information is freely available from HERE and here alone. Any other source of this material is a violation of my copyright".
Many BSD users have a different mind set than do Linux users. In general I LIKE knowing exactly when someone says "I Run FreeBSD 4.0 Current" compared to someone saying "I run GNU/Linux".. I know exactly what the FreeBSD person is running, the Linux person could be running any number of distros, kernel versions, etc.
As for the BSD vs. GPL, if I were a company I would MUCH prefer the BSD license, at least I know that my code can't be used without me getting credit for it. Yes the license is more restrictive but thats life..
Its a personal choice. Both licenses (And BSD vs. GNU/Linux) have their place. Better a BSD source license then no source...
If the market (and money) were to be made here in Linux, more companies would be jumping on the Linux bandwagon. But its not (at least, not yet).
The PHB's aren't thinking future and if a company would have to relenquish control of proprietary HW that they developed just so a "fringe" group can play Diablo II on their gForce II cards, oh well.
The kernel developers are being too stubborn for our own good. Make 2 interfaces, one for compiled/builtin drivers and one for external ones. Then you can say "If you want the best speed open source it and use the built in interface so the newest kernels can use it, or use the external module interface if you want to keep it close sourced yet allow new versions access"...
But how many people actually would even be SEEN by adobe. Only companys that have several 100+ copies of Photoshop (a single graphic artist who needs ONE feature to make his life easier isn't even going to be listened to by a huge corporation).
This is how the market works and keeps itself in check. Business has an incentive to listen the customers (most of the time) otherwise they find themselves in the lurch...
Ride the Microsoft Shuttle, their motto:
We only crash some of the time
I can't belive it took this long for this to get into print. I bet most people believed (or at least suspected) that the government is using their "monopolistic" hold on the space program to charge high prices. If they can't make any money on it, why should you ?
Some Picket Signs for this one:
"If you can't trust your citizens who can you trust?"
They don't trust anyone, why else have they become so pervasive in our lives (v-chips so parents don't have to monitor their children's TV habits like all of our parents did, the welfare system...)
"Come on, this is rocketry not brain surgery."
I see someone watches a little "Emeril Live!"
So their own printers can't talk the same language how the hell will they handle internet printing ?
Nowadays, the civil rights twits would be screaming "abuse".. Hell no.. They are trying to prevent abuse (basically keeping the kids where they belong so you don't have to beat them).. I mean.. come on.. Have any of you seen how scool is taught now ? With the touchey feely was to make kids feel better (so they no longer grade A, B, C, etc. ).. No wonder kids can't spell..
And what's to keep "lil johnny" from tying his bracelet to a dog and letting the dog run wild ? If anyone can figure out ways to get around their parents, the kids can..
The parents are no longer parents, they are the kids "friends"... Screw That ! Kids need parents who will TEACH them right from wrong. If the lazy parents don't pay attention to their kids and TEACH THEM and LISTEN TO THEM, we will have worse indicdents than Columbine...
I'm glad to see more BSD appearances at "Linux" events. I'ld also be glad to see more Linux appearances at BSD Events.
I would like to see 10 things that Microsoft has innovated (not borrowed or purchased or based of already existing work) listed.
Do you think I'll get any response ?
Secrets are what the government wants. They don't care about whose secrets they are.
<rant on>
I swear.. I think its time for another revolution in this country where we correct the errors from the constitution (term limits, no "professional" politicians, the abolishment of the Federal Tax, reworking of the Social Security System, rework/abolishment of the welfare system).
As an aside, most people don't realize that the Federal Income Tax wasn't ratified by all the states and is therefore unconstitutional.. They don't realize any of the power they hold on the US Govt.
We elect these bozos and if they stay in office its our fault... If they aren't voting for the common good, then get them out of office and put someone in who will !
<rant off>
I think what is meant is the fact that regional encoding forces you to purchase DVD's for your region instead of from a cheaper location (like India).. Here in the USA you have to purchase Region 1 DVD's that will only play on a Region 1 DVD player (you can't play the region 2 DVD's you bought on your visit to England on your Region 1 DVD player)... Thats how its anti competative (I think... Since IANAL, IAAG...
Why reload ? Just reset the Palm and do a hotsynch and everything is back just fine and dandy..
Oh yeah.. thats what I get for NOT having my 32OZ of Elixor or the Gods (aka. COLA !) before posting...
Exactly.. How many people would be pissed to find out that the reason they needed the new 30GB disk is because M$ Excell has a spread sheet in it.. Or the IE 4.x has the stupid "We made this program" video stuff...