Tell me about it. The Amazon preference engine keeps trying to sell me underwear, but now that I'm old I don't wear underwear, I don't go to church and I don't cut my hair.
Clearly these underwear wearing people they keep trying to "match me up" with are rather unlike myself.
And two parrotheads are obviously not better than one.
So if the machine operates that way to begin with, why should we shield programmers from the design?
Because there is a difference between program logic and its physical implimentation, although we shouldn't shield them from the difference, we should teach it to them.
Then they'd already know the answer to questions like these.
No, you have it exactly backwards. You have a right to free speech. Copyright is a statutory limitation on that right, granting the copyright holder a priviledge. You have the right to speak freely. It isn't granted by the Bill of Rights, the Bill of Rights is there protect you against the government passing laws trying to take that away from you that which is innate.
Copy"right" grants the priviledge of restricting speech by act of Congress. Jefferson had a lot to say about this. He was agin it.
The doctrine of fair use is a recognition of the priviledge status of copyright and existence of your speech rights despite this priviledge. It did not come about by statute, but through the process of common law. As often happens that common law has since been integrated into the struture of the grant of priviledge.
The fact that few people understand this, most notably the people currently writting copyright law, is now part of the problem.
Correspondence is the property of the owner, but the copyright on the correspondence is retained by the writer. This issue was settled in America way back upon the death of George Washington and the publication of his personal letters.
Nonetheless the recipient retains fair use rights.
This is an issue for writers of history/biography, especially now that copyright is generated automagically rather than by explicit registration.
As someone who is obviously in sympathy with the left you are not taking into account that all they do is complain about the directions America is taking, which is treasonous America bashing.
Whereas those on the right spend all their time complaining about the directions America is taking, which is proud patriotism.
In any case the problems are just the flip side problems of traditional commercial development. Every system confers certain benefits at the expense of some disadvantages.
The diadvantage of commercial trade software? Well, from my point of view it is often that it's got too much conceptual integrity, professionalism, and innovation together with the issue of ownership of closed source developed under the current Intellectual Property laws.
Ah, well, see? The very idea of benefit and disadvantage is a wee bit subjective in and of itself.
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I forgot to mention that I don't wear pants either.
KFG
. . .they don't work anyway.
Tell me about it. The Amazon preference engine keeps trying to sell me underwear, but now that I'm old I don't wear underwear, I don't go to church and I don't cut my hair.
Clearly these underwear wearing people they keep trying to "match me up" with are rather unlike myself.
And two parrotheads are obviously not better than one.
KFG
. . .teaching Cobol should be a criminal offense.
You mean it's not?
KFG
that he said would screw up programmers for life.
KFG
Maybe it's just a turn based game.
KFG
So if the machine operates that way to begin with, why should we shield programmers from the design?
Because there is a difference between program logic and its physical implimentation, although we shouldn't shield them from the difference, we should teach it to them.
Then they'd already know the answer to questions like these.
KFG
Damn fucking right I am. What the hell do you think I clicked on the damned story for? But you're too shitfuck fast for me.
And the horse you rode in on. Sideways.
KFG
Oh yeah. Like we didn't see a post like that coming.
Bugger off, dickhead.
KFG
Then fire someone because the wheel went out of true.
KFG
All of us.
KFG
$0
KFG
why use personal names anyways.
For exactly the same reason we give names to ip addresses.
KFG
No, you have it exactly backwards. You have a right to free speech. Copyright is a statutory limitation on that right, granting the copyright holder a priviledge. You have the right to speak freely. It isn't granted by the Bill of Rights, the Bill of Rights is there protect you against the government passing laws trying to take that away from you that which is innate.
Copy"right" grants the priviledge of restricting speech by act of Congress. Jefferson had a lot to say about this. He was agin it.
The doctrine of fair use is a recognition of the priviledge status of copyright and existence of your speech rights despite this priviledge. It did not come about by statute, but through the process of common law. As often happens that common law has since been integrated into the struture of the grant of priviledge.
The fact that few people understand this, most notably the people currently writting copyright law, is now part of the problem.
KFG
Correspondence is the property of the owner, but the copyright on the correspondence is retained by the writer. This issue was settled in America way back upon the death of George Washington and the publication of his personal letters.
Nonetheless the recipient retains fair use rights.
This is an issue for writers of history/biography, especially now that copyright is generated automagically rather than by explicit registration.
KFG
Has the West forgotten?
The West blames them for giving us opium. Given that how can the West understand a damned thing about the current behavior of China?
KFG
Clients will catch maybe 25% of those errors against them. . .
.the bank will catch 75% of the errors against them and successfully have them reversed.
Because they don't trust them.
. .
Because they really, really don't trust them.
The OPs post had two parts. I responded to only one of those parts. You responded as if I had responded to the part to which I did not respond.
KFG
As someone who is obviously in sympathy with the left you are not taking into account that all they do is complain about the directions America is taking, which is treasonous America bashing.
Whereas those on the right spend all their time complaining about the directions America is taking, which is proud patriotism.
See the difference?
KFG
What makes you think the banks trust them?
KFG
I do fear there is something of the luddite in these statements. . .
Because he doesn't wish to revert to the older way of doing things?
A turn of The Wheel of Reincarnation is not the same thing as innovative advancement.
KFG
Get thee hence and read Clarke's The Fountains of Paradise.
KFG
Methanol isn't too common a substance. . .
.if you're going to be in the middle of nowhere with your laptop, I'd imagine you'd have a car to charge off. . .
You can obtain it in any convenience store under the guise of "dry gas."
. .
You do not appear to understand the concept "middle of nowhere."
KFG
Hamster power is easier. You ever try to train a cat to run on that wheel thingy?
KFG
The real question is the output from the running car can generate enough electricity to keep the battery charged.
No problemo. Just put in a big enough alternator and feed the engine enough gasoline to turn it.
KFG
In any case the problems are just the flip side problems of traditional commercial development. Every system confers certain benefits at the expense of some disadvantages.
The diadvantage of commercial trade software? Well, from my point of view it is often that it's got too much conceptual integrity, professionalism, and innovation together with the issue of ownership of closed source developed under the current Intellectual Property laws.
Ah, well, see? The very idea of benefit and disadvantage is a wee bit subjective in and of itself.
KFG
... what else is going in there?
Magic smoke and mirrors.
KFG