Many publication freelancer contracts, like the one I signed for my work, state that the publisher has the right to reproduce the article in full online, on CD-ROM, or on any future medium not yet invented or discovered.
This case won't affect all freelance work, especially recent work in the tech industry.
In a similar topic, here is what JMS from Babylon 5 had to say about a particularly violent scene in the "Dust to Dust" episode:
"This scene *should* be very affecting. It goes to Joe's Theory of Violence on TV. To wit...that we need more of it, but it has to be realistic violence. It has to show consequences. You glorify or desensitize violence when you shoot somebody, and they just go down, no yelling in pain, no sobbing as their guts fall out onto the street. It's just gunfire, loud noises, excitement and fun. If you're going to show violence, then show it for what it *is*, and show it the way people would react to it. Make the audience understand that this is a *person*, not one in a series of body counts."
http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/guide/050.html
Nah the scientologists won't get overwhelmed. They'll just go through the comments and say "remove #28, #58, #60..." and give a big long list. Then it becomes a bit overwhelming for the slashdot crew. You will not 'overwhelm' the scientologists, especially when it's obivious that slashdot staffmembers are willing to remove the comments. You'll just piss off Rob and Jeff as they spend 7 workhours just deleting comments. Eventually the scientologists may take actual legal action, and might try to shut down slashdot.
Pandora's box. I don't know if this will pave the way for the mpaa to request DeCSS stuff to be removed.
yeah that's why I think it'd be based on where the business is located, not customer. If I go over to california and buy something there, I pay their tax rate and the tax money goes to CA, not my home state. This would be a much easier system to deal with. However, this does not always hold. If I buy a car in new jersey but register it in new york, I pay the NY tax rate.
I think they'd base it on billing address instead of shipping. Billing address is the place it's being paid from. Once again diving into the real world, you buy a mattress in one county but deliver it to a different county, you pay the tax rate of where the mattress was purchased.
This test bed is flawed and results from this should not be published.
1) The web server will not always have the same load.
2) There may be performance differences in the web server that causes it to give uneven responses.
3) The CGI scripts may have different interactions with the back end servers, some more optimal than others.
4) Network interferences. What if one of those servers does a lot of broadcast traffic? That may affect other servers.
5) You'd need to reboot one of the web servers after each test for an accurate figure in case some processes went zombie or if there was a memory leak in the web server OS.
6) These benchmarks would be home made and unproven, which scares people.
7) You didn't ask for the vendor's permission to test or publish, which isn't nice. I'm not sure of the legality of that.
There goes the ability to change IP addresses without affecting hostnames. Right now, I can have a web or email server on 192.0.0.3, and change it to 127.0.2.4, and everyone on the internet won't know or care. DNS is a level of abstraction and allows IPs to change very easily without affecting users.
And of course, if you changed this right now, nobody would be able to find any web sites. Everyone would need to look up each address. Not to mention, it's easy to remember a lot of dns names. microsoft, apple, cnn, slashdot, nintendo, cisco, sun...I bet you can find their web servers with no effort at all.
I am curious if your education level (high school, current college, past college), and if you're currently enrolled in a CS program as you describe above.
What you are describing is NOT computer science. Nor should it be. Any curriculum calling that CS is doing an injustice to the term computer science. What you're describing is a 4 year, $20,000/year trade school. That's the Devry institute of Computer Science.
What you're describing will train you to perform great right out of college, but supply no help in the long run. Tweaking parameters of SQL? What if next year something better than SQL comes out?
Here's the best description I've heard of computer science. "That's what we want you to do, to think hard, obsessively, for a long time, about very little."
The idea is, if you know the theory behind how it works, everything else will come naturally. If you can understand how scoping works, then it doesn't matter what language you're programming in, it'll all make sense more quickly.
It is unfortunate how there is no completely universal language (no, music doesn't count).
Several bases might work. Except, that could also confuse. Less similarity amongst the statements.
Binary could work but there are a few catches. Do they interpret binary numbers left to right or right to left? Are they read right to left in 4 byte chunks, and then left to right for the next 4? Do they use trits instead (0, 1, and 2)?
Well you could also say "real architects don't build the house".
Computer Science is about theory. Of course, you will use a computer at some point to test things out, mostly because you don't want to compute everything by hand, and seeing merge sort actually work may be a nice thing. Most CS cirriculums do offer the ability to learn how to program decently and such (my school has a course on windows APIs), sometimes teamed up with the CE or EE departments. Many people do this to become more well rounded and would require less on the job training.
But yeah, computer science does not need to be done on computers at all!
If you have to buy more video cards, ATI/nVidia/whoever makes more money.
So it's in the graphic card industry's best interests to force you to buy the latest. And lots of people sucker themselves into this little game. We can also blame the game developers for not writing backwards compatability or reduced graphics modes, but I think that was covered a few articles ago.
This is why there are so many Nintendos et al out there.
One of the things I don't like about series anime DVDs is that it costs so much to watch. Like, I saw Neon Genesis: Evangelon (sp?) for $28 for three episodes (saw it in the stores, haven't checked online). Now that's a lot, especially if you need to buy a whole bunch of them.
12 episodes for $30...6 episodes for $60. Ouch. Anime needs to come down in price.
I know it's too late for the guy asking the question (considering he's graduating in 3 months), but this could be useful for others who are considering gaming.
I have heard that linear algebra is very useful to know if you are doing 3D engines and stuff of that nature. The more knowledgable the better. At least, according to my advisor. Can anyone verify this with actual experience?
Something has to pay for the bandwidth, disk space, and web admins.
Slashdot depends on advertising and is commercial. It's owned by a commercial entity. Not that I'm saying that's a bad thing or anything. If Rob can take a thing like slashdot and make money off of it, good for him!
But there may be other problems. Cover new software releases? With the print lead time that magazines have, open source software often will release a new version before you can get it to print. Any bugs found and reported in the article could be fixed by then. Workshops and howtos? That could work, except most Linux users are currently used to that info being online and free. So this could be redundant. Or, if the magazine prints "type nr -dl ~!foo/bar", you'd have to type that in on the command line instead of being able to just copy and paste.
Slashdot Mirror
Emacs. Yes, it has emacs. Runs in text mode.
:)
Porting, sure you probably can. It includes developer tools. Thank you Apple!
No built in X-Server. "There is no X in MacOS X". You can use an X server as a standalone application just like you can in Windows and OS9.
Don't know about NFS.
It runs a beta of IE now, and Office is being ported.
Except for the fact, of course, that MacOS X graphical layer is not X-Windows.
Many publication freelancer contracts, like the one I signed for my work, state that the publisher has the right to reproduce the article in full online, on CD-ROM, or on any future medium not yet invented or discovered.
This case won't affect all freelance work, especially recent work in the tech industry.
Great, so now we'd have to pay AOL $3/month to use AIM (unless you're an AOL member already probably).
I don't want to pay $3/mo to every thing on the Internet to use the Internet. Advertising keeps ABC,CBS,NBC,Fox free.
In a similar topic, here is what JMS from Babylon 5 had to say about a particularly violent scene in the "Dust to Dust" episode:
"This scene *should* be very affecting. It goes to Joe's Theory of Violence on TV. To wit...that we need more of it, but it has to be realistic violence. It has to show consequences. You glorify or desensitize violence when you shoot somebody, and they just go down, no yelling in pain, no sobbing as their guts fall out onto the street. It's just gunfire, loud noises, excitement and fun. If you're going to show violence, then show it for what it *is*, and show it the way people would react to it. Make the audience understand that this is a *person*, not one in a series of body counts."
http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/guide/050.html
Firewalls are not for protection against trojan programs. Firewalls can prevent, but not stop.
That's why you keep an antivirus program around.
Nah the scientologists won't get overwhelmed. They'll just go through the comments and say "remove #28, #58, #60..." and give a big long list. Then it becomes a bit overwhelming for the slashdot crew. You will not 'overwhelm' the scientologists, especially when it's obivious that slashdot staffmembers are willing to remove the comments. You'll just piss off Rob and Jeff as they spend 7 workhours just deleting comments. Eventually the scientologists may take actual legal action, and might try to shut down slashdot.
Pandora's box. I don't know if this will pave the way for the mpaa to request DeCSS stuff to be removed.
How much do you want to bet that the comments on this story will contain the text at issue, as well as in every article for the next two weeks or so.
It happened with DeCSS. Let's all get Rob in trouble!
yeah that's why I think it'd be based on where the business is located, not customer. If I go over to california and buy something there, I pay their tax rate and the tax money goes to CA, not my home state. This would be a much easier system to deal with. However, this does not always hold. If I buy a car in new jersey but register it in new york, I pay the NY tax rate.
I think they'd base it on billing address instead of shipping. Billing address is the place it's being paid from. Once again diving into the real world, you buy a mattress in one county but deliver it to a different county, you pay the tax rate of where the mattress was purchased.
Unless the tax is limited to being charged for where the business resides, customer location irrelevant.
In other words, if I set up foofoo.com in Nassau County, Long Island, any customer that comes to my place would get charged 8.5%
This test bed is flawed and results from this should not be published.
1) The web server will not always have the same load.
2) There may be performance differences in the web server that causes it to give uneven responses.
3) The CGI scripts may have different interactions with the back end servers, some more optimal than others.
4) Network interferences. What if one of those servers does a lot of broadcast traffic? That may affect other servers.
5) You'd need to reboot one of the web servers after each test for an accurate figure in case some processes went zombie or if there was a memory leak in the web server OS.
6) These benchmarks would be home made and unproven, which scares people.
7) You didn't ask for the vendor's permission to test or publish, which isn't nice. I'm not sure of the legality of that.
There goes the ability to change IP addresses without affecting hostnames. Right now, I can have a web or email server on 192.0.0.3, and change it to 127.0.2.4, and everyone on the internet won't know or care. DNS is a level of abstraction and allows IPs to change very easily without affecting users.
:-D
And of course, if you changed this right now, nobody would be able to find any web sites. Everyone would need to look up each address. Not to mention, it's easy to remember a lot of dns names. microsoft, apple, cnn, slashdot, nintendo, cisco, sun...I bet you can find their web servers with no effort at all.
Have fun memorizing those IPv6 addresses!
You could also arrange a meeting in a sealed bunker underground (or something less dramatic of course) and predetermine what key and scheme to use.
Of course, crypto analysis assumes that the encryption scheme is public or will be figured out.
I am curious if your education level (high school, current college, past college), and if you're currently enrolled in a CS program as you describe above.
What you are describing is NOT computer science. Nor should it be. Any curriculum calling that CS is doing an injustice to the term computer science. What you're describing is a 4 year, $20,000/year trade school. That's the Devry institute of Computer Science.
What you're describing will train you to perform great right out of college, but supply no help in the long run. Tweaking parameters of SQL? What if next year something better than SQL comes out?
Here's the best description I've heard of computer science. "That's what we want you to do, to think hard, obsessively, for a long time, about very little."
The idea is, if you know the theory behind how it works, everything else will come naturally. If you can understand how scoping works, then it doesn't matter what language you're programming in, it'll all make sense more quickly.
It is unfortunate how there is no completely universal language (no, music doesn't count).
Several bases might work. Except, that could also confuse. Less similarity amongst the statements.
Binary could work but there are a few catches. Do they interpret binary numbers left to right or right to left? Are they read right to left in 4 byte chunks, and then left to right for the next 4? Do they use trits instead (0, 1, and 2)?
What does 59635742 equal? 1499682626. Base 16, base 10. That's if you can tell 1 2 3...0 are numbers and in that order.
Yeah except what's to say that they count in base 10? They might count in base 2 or base 87. The value of PI is "differnet" in base 87.
Plus PI is 3.14 in Arabic and III . I IV in roman. They might not understand our numbers.
If you aren't good at Math, get an Information Studies & Technology (IST or IT) degree.
Computer Science is math.
Well you could also say "real architects don't build the house".
Computer Science is about theory. Of course, you will use a computer at some point to test things out, mostly because you don't want to compute everything by hand, and seeing merge sort actually work may be a nice thing. Most CS cirriculums do offer the ability to learn how to program decently and such (my school has a course on windows APIs), sometimes teamed up with the CE or EE departments. Many people do this to become more well rounded and would require less on the job training.
But yeah, computer science does not need to be done on computers at all!
If you have to buy more video cards, ATI/nVidia/whoever makes more money.
So it's in the graphic card industry's best interests to force you to buy the latest. And lots of people sucker themselves into this little game. We can also blame the game developers for not writing backwards compatability or reduced graphics modes, but I think that was covered a few articles ago.
This is why there are so many Nintendos et al out there.
Wow. That's a great price!
One of the things I don't like about series anime DVDs is that it costs so much to watch. Like, I saw Neon Genesis: Evangelon (sp?) for $28 for three episodes (saw it in the stores, haven't checked online). Now that's a lot, especially if you need to buy a whole bunch of them.
12 episodes for $30...6 episodes for $60. Ouch. Anime needs to come down in price.
I know it's too late for the guy asking the question (considering he's graduating in 3 months), but this could be useful for others who are considering gaming.
I have heard that linear algebra is very useful to know if you are doing 3D engines and stuff of that nature. The more knowledgable the better. At least, according to my advisor. Can anyone verify this with actual experience?
No the question was, will the show's stuff look like 1968 or 1999? Will the new TV show maintain that old federation look?
Maybe now we'll discover the mysterious origin of Captain Kirk's Toupee.
Something has to pay for the bandwidth, disk space, and web admins.
Slashdot depends on advertising and is commercial. It's owned by a commercial entity. Not that I'm saying that's a bad thing or anything. If Rob can take a thing like slashdot and make money off of it, good for him!
But there may be other problems. Cover new software releases? With the print lead time that magazines have, open source software often will release a new version before you can get it to print. Any bugs found and reported in the article could be fixed by then. Workshops and howtos? That could work, except most Linux users are currently used to that info being online and free. So this could be redundant. Or, if the magazine prints "type nr -dl ~!foo/bar", you'd have to type that in on the command line instead of being able to just copy and paste.