I personally agree with his actions, but I also think the school was justified in theirs.
You've never heard of the saying "Let the punishment fit the crime," have you?
Look at what the school considers grounds for suspension - "gun possession, drug use, theft or destruction of school property", and "refusing to be crowned homecoming king".. in the immortal words of Sesame Street, "one of these things is not like the others"
This is the equvalent of "Crimes worthy of Execution include Terrorism, First Degree Murder, High Treason, and Littering."
Let the punishment fit the crime - Civil protest is not a capital offense.
Who... by the way... have made a quiet killing extorting money from any company that attempts to make software which can generate GIF images.
That should be almost any company..
There is at least one that I know of that didn't do this.. the program was called ImageFx (it was for the Amiga).. Apparently Unisys (perhaps trying to look 'beneficial' to the world?) included a clause in their licensing that said that any code in the public domain would be exempt from the extortion^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hroyalty payments...
Like all good image processing programs, ImageFX is modular - so the maker (I think it was GVP) immediately stopped releasing ImageFX with the GIF filter... then uploaded the filter onto AmiNet, releasing it as PD!
Ahh.. I love that story.. it still brings a smile to my face..
Does that mean you can put code out there under GPL, have a thousand people help you with it, and then sell it under a different license.
Under copyright law, I think it depends on how much they conribute, and under what terms they license their code back to you...
If they're doing "minor" work (just a few lines) then their code is sent to you with no explicit license, I believe that you get to keep it.. (although I could be wrong on this part)
However if it's a major chunk of code, and/or they release it to you under GPL, then you can't incorporate it into your product and release it under a different license without their consent, because their code is protected by the GPL..
The thing to remember that the GPL doesn't need to cover entire working programs, it can also cover code snippets and anything in between.
I've had both good and bad experiences with shaw@home..
My cable modem goes out every month or so - due (I'm told) to a bad router at the head end.
Usually when I call them, they're polite - they have certain things they have to go through ("release and renew your IP address"), but once they realize that I know more about TCP/IP than they do (I'm a network engineer/sysadmin - I maintain several large networks) things progress rather smoothly.
A couple of times though, I've had to talk to idiots who _refuse_ to listen to what I'm saying - they assume that because I'm the customer, they know more than me... it usually starts with "OK, click on the start menu.." - then I say "I'm not using Windows, I'm using Linux".. the response is "We don't support Linux".. my response is "That's OK, I do".. once the response was "I can't help you, because you're not running windows", so I tell him that this happens every month or so, and that he needs to have his techs test the head-end router for faults - after tearing him a new one he put me on hold for a few minutes, then came back and told me that I was right.
All in all, it depends entirely on the tech.. most of shaw@home is OK, but there are a few idiots in the barrel.
the av software would remove the virus before it had a chance to do anything (like remove itself from the scan file). that's part of the basics of av software, you have a fingerprint, and you can detect a virus before it can do anything.
OK, but what if the virus checker doesn't know about it? (that's the whole point of 'updates' isn't it? to catch the new virii that didn't get caught in the last patch?)
I must be missing something here - this is way too obvious (a virus/trojan that neuters anti-virus programs).. seems to me (although I'm not a Windoze programmer) that it should be relatively simple to write a virus that does the following:
Terminate the resident AV cheker (kill -9 equivalent)
replace the AV executable with a bogus file
replicate
Can someone enlighten me as to why this hasn't happened?
The thing I can't understand is why two (or one for that matter) nameservers are required for hosting your own domain.
Two are required for redundancy. (You can always just use one box with multiple IP addresses, which I'd never recommend.)
One (for that matter?) is required because the DNS info has to go _somewhere_.
When you register your domain name, you're just doing that - registering the domain name... now you have to let the world know where the hosts on that domain live (among other things.)
Yes, you can run mail and web (and whatever else you want) servers on one of your DNS servers, and have a secondary server hosted somewhere else (use your ISP as a backup, use a friend who has a static address, etc.) - If you were going to do that, you should learn a little more about how DNS works first though.
Don McKellar is a Genius... (not a term I use often..).. he's in the same league as David Byrne and Tim Burton..
For those who don't know what I'm talking about, he has the ability to portray weird people reacting to absurdist situations, but still have the audience watch with total belief.. the only way I can describe it is "spiraling down the rabbit hole"
Ever see "Twitch City"? absolutely hilarious.. I wish there were more episodes..
Remember, your subconcious can go right on thinking while your concious brain is sleeping
Damn, I can only remember this while I'm asleep - thanks for reminding me:o)
Seriously though, I too do my best problem solving when I'm asleep.. I can't count the number of programming problems I've solved by just going to bed.. I wake up a couple of hours later, and I know the solution... gotta love that unconscious work.. (although now all I gotta do is convince my boss to put a hammock up somewhere around here, so I can do this at work, too:o) -- "Honest, boss, I wasn't sleeping, I was solving a problem!"
My cat and I have conversations on a pretty regular basis.. he always greets me when I come home from work, and throughout the day.
OK, I usually don't have much of a clue as to what he's saying (unless I'm fixing breakfast, in which case "MEOW!" means "I want some milk, too!") and I don't think he knows what I'm saying either, but we enjoy the conversations anyway...
The thing that confuses him is when I'm talking on the phone to someone, and I don't wait for him to finish, or I don't respond promptly (I think his logic goes something like "He's saying something, and I'm the only one here, so he must be talking to me.")
Besides being vocal, he does a number of non-cat things, such as playing fetch, and occasionally tag..
I went there because I have a ton of old stuff that my wife is constantly nagging me to dispose of...
The problem is that all of it works, but none of it is worth any money (XT I/O cards, a 386SX, Amiga & C64 peripherals, etc..) so it doesn't make sense to spend money on a classified ad..
I believe that most geeks are pack-rats (every one I know in RL is) so posting it on/. might give it a big boost from all the pack rats here who are nagged by their spouses to clean out the storage room:o)
Could I claim "but your Honor, I already paid for this when I bought the media"?
Depends on the trial method..
I'm guessing a judge alone would convict you.
A jury trial (this is criminal law, right?) might go a little differently... if your lawyer was good enough, I'm sure he could convince a jury to aquit you..
I'm personally waiting for this to happen here in Canada, where a "tax" on blank audio CD & tape media already exists.
Per the licensing agreement on the site (http://www.digitalconvergence.com/ula.html or http://www.crq.com/legal.html) you agree to follow thier license if you do any of the following :
And per the licensing agreement on _MY_ site (the URL of which I'm not going to send you), everybody on/. has to send me $100 USD whenever they post here.
Since you've posted on/., when can I expect your money order?
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who is going to pay a company for support when they can either hire their own people to maintain the source and fix problems
Hmm.. good question...
I work for a company that exists primarily on computer service contracts - that is, other people pay us to fix their computer hardware (to make all the computers run - replacing/upgrading hardware as necessary, to make their networks go, etc.)
Now, looking at your question, why would anyone pay US to maintain their hardware when they can hire their own people? Same answer: BECAUSE IT'S CHEAPER to pay a company a small amount for a large skill pool than to hire your own employee, who has a small skill set.
Our customers pay us about half of what they'd pay for an in-house geek, and they get whatever skill is necessary to solve the problem - if they need a printer guy one day, they get a printer guy; if they need a computer guy the next, they get a computer guy; if they need a network guy the next day, they get a network guy - all for half of the raw cost of a single employee that would only have one of those skill sets (if they're lucky.)
The business model works in other sectors besides software.
It is... close to being up to speed with Netscape with application zippiness.
How can you say that?
Netscape (atleast all the linux versions I've tried) is painfully slow... (OK, not as slow as Mozilla, but still pretty damn slow.)
Galeon, OTOH is BLAZINGLY fast... it loads faster, displays pages faster, and just works faster than Netscape (under Linux)..
I still use Netscape though, just because I get annoyed at Galeon's (current) Alpha state (ie. no MMB support, or drop downs for links - having to hit the 'back' button is a pain, especially when you always go back to the beginning of the page, instead of where you just were...)
and YES, I realize that these issues are being addressed (even as I write this?)... I'm very anxiously awaiting Galeon..
elegant, isn't it? The algorithm is small, and the compressed data is so tiny, even your OS can't find it!
Actually, it can't find it because the compression rate is 100%:o)
Here is the equivalent for files (ala gzip)
rm -rf *
Better than gzipping all your files - and faster, too!
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It is more appropriate to give the user the choice of using a Flash or non-Flash site.
Wrong.
The proper way to do it is not to offer any content via flash that isn't available to those who don't have the plug-in.
It's called flash for a reason: because flash is diametrically opposed to substance.
substance == content. When someone visits a website, they're there to get information - a web designer's main goal is to make the content as easy to get as possible - everything that impedes this is poor web design. (this includes things such as a page saying 'click here to view our site with flash'.)
The correct way is to provide the content in a viewable manner, and use flash/javascript/whatever as extras for people who have it - if they don't have it, they shouldn't notice (but obviously the site won't look as nice.)
I've got one of those Intellimouse Explorers (the huge silver ones with the superfluous tail light and like three extra buttons;
I've seen these things at computer stores - one question I have is this: If it has a tail light, does it also make a beeping noise when it moves backwards?
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I personally agree with his actions, but I also think the school was justified in theirs.
You've never heard of the saying "Let the punishment fit the crime," have you?
Look at what the school considers grounds for suspension - "gun possession, drug use, theft or destruction of school property", and "refusing to be crowned homecoming king".. in the immortal words of Sesame Street, "one of these things is not like the others"
This is the equvalent of "Crimes worthy of Execution include Terrorism, First Degree Murder, High Treason, and Littering."
Let the punishment fit the crime - Civil protest is not a capital offense.
FREE WITH the operating system.
So yes it is free.
Just like the prizes in the cereal box is free, right?
It's not really free, you're paying for it by buying the product that it's bundled with.
All I can think when I see this picture is: Ohh you make me very, very angry!
Who... by the way... have made a quiet killing extorting money from any company that attempts to make software which can generate GIF images.
That should be almost any company..
There is at least one that I know of that didn't do this.. the program was called ImageFx (it was for the Amiga).. Apparently Unisys (perhaps trying to look 'beneficial' to the world?) included a clause in their licensing that said that any code in the public domain would be exempt from the extortion^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hroyalty payments...
Like all good image processing programs, ImageFX is modular - so the maker (I think it was GVP) immediately stopped releasing ImageFX with the GIF filter... then uploaded the filter onto AmiNet, releasing it as PD!
Ahh.. I love that story.. it still brings a smile to my face..
Does that mean you can put code out there under GPL, have a thousand people help you with it, and then sell it under a different license.
Under copyright law, I think it depends on how much they conribute, and under what terms they license their code back to you...
If they're doing "minor" work (just a few lines) then their code is sent to you with no explicit license, I believe that you get to keep it.. (although I could be wrong on this part)
However if it's a major chunk of code, and/or they release it to you under GPL, then you can't incorporate it into your product and release it under a different license without their consent, because their code is protected by the GPL..
The thing to remember that the GPL doesn't need to cover entire working programs, it can also cover code snippets and anything in between.
What coulld be worse than having to listen to *both* of those bozos.
:o)
How about having one of them for president?
I've had both good and bad experiences with shaw@home..
My cable modem goes out every month or so - due (I'm told) to a bad router at the head end.
Usually when I call them, they're polite - they have certain things they have to go through ("release and renew your IP address"), but once they realize that I know more about TCP/IP than they do (I'm a network engineer/sysadmin - I maintain several large networks) things progress rather smoothly.
A couple of times though, I've had to talk to idiots who _refuse_ to listen to what I'm saying - they assume that because I'm the customer, they know more than me... it usually starts with "OK, click on the start menu.." - then I say "I'm not using Windows, I'm using Linux".. the response is "We don't support Linux".. my response is "That's OK, I do".. once the response was "I can't help you, because you're not running windows", so I tell him that this happens every month or so, and that he needs to have his techs test the head-end router for faults - after tearing him a new one he put me on hold for a few minutes, then came back and told me that I was right.
All in all, it depends entirely on the tech.. most of shaw@home is OK, but there are a few idiots in the barrel.
OK, but what if the virus checker doesn't know about it? (that's the whole point of 'updates' isn't it? to catch the new virii that didn't get caught in the last patch?)
I must be missing something here - this is way too obvious (a virus/trojan that neuters anti-virus programs).. seems to me (although I'm not a Windoze programmer) that it should be relatively simple to write a virus that does the following:
Can someone enlighten me as to why this hasn't happened?
The thing I can't understand is why two (or one for that matter) nameservers are required for hosting your own domain.
Two are required for redundancy. (You can always just use one box with multiple IP addresses, which I'd never recommend.)
One (for that matter?) is required because the DNS info has to go _somewhere_.
When you register your domain name, you're just doing that - registering the domain name... now you have to let the world know where the hosts on that domain live (among other things.)
Yes, you can run mail and web (and whatever else you want) servers on one of your DNS servers, and have a secondary server hosted somewhere else (use your ISP as a backup, use a friend who has a static address, etc.) - If you were going to do that, you should learn a little more about how DNS works first though.
Don McKellar is a Genius... (not a term I use often..).. he's in the same league as David Byrne and Tim Burton..
For those who don't know what I'm talking about, he has the ability to portray weird people reacting to absurdist situations, but still have the audience watch with total belief.. the only way I can describe it is "spiraling down the rabbit hole"
Ever see "Twitch City"? absolutely hilarious.. I wish there were more episodes..
Remember, your subconcious can go right on thinking while your concious brain is sleeping
:o)
:o) -- "Honest, boss, I wasn't sleeping, I was solving a problem!"
Damn, I can only remember this while I'm asleep - thanks for reminding me
Seriously though, I too do my best problem solving when I'm asleep.. I can't count the number of programming problems I've solved by just going to bed.. I wake up a couple of hours later, and I know the solution... gotta love that unconscious work.. (although now all I gotta do is convince my boss to put a hammock up somewhere around here, so I can do this at work, too
My cat and I have conversations on a pretty regular basis.. he always greets me when I come home from work, and throughout the day.
OK, I usually don't have much of a clue as to what he's saying (unless I'm fixing breakfast, in which case "MEOW!" means "I want some milk, too!") and I don't think he knows what I'm saying either, but we enjoy the conversations anyway...
The thing that confuses him is when I'm talking on the phone to someone, and I don't wait for him to finish, or I don't respond promptly (I think his logic goes something like "He's saying something, and I'm the only one here, so he must be talking to me.")
Besides being vocal, he does a number of non-cat things, such as playing fetch, and occasionally tag..
I'm voting for the idiot.
Which one?
Remember, it doesn't matter who you vote for, the government always wins.
I went there because I have a ton of old stuff that my wife is constantly nagging me to dispose of...
/. might give it a big boost from all the pack rats here who are nagged by their spouses to clean out the storage room :o)
The problem is that all of it works, but none of it is worth any money (XT I/O cards, a 386SX, Amiga & C64 peripherals, etc..) so it doesn't make sense to spend money on a classified ad..
I believe that most geeks are pack-rats (every one I know in RL is) so posting it on
"This would be a fundamental discovery in physics."
So... you're saying that this could be some sort of holy grail?
*rimshot*
And guns are not the answer
As any American can tell you: if you think guns aren't the answer, then you're not asking the question properly!
The British were coming to defend one of their colonies, and were completely succesful. It was the later counter-attack that failed.
:o)
Well, if you can call burning down the Presidential Palace (White House) "failure"
Could I claim "but your Honor, I already paid for this when I bought the media"?
Depends on the trial method..
I'm guessing a judge alone would convict you.
A jury trial (this is criminal law, right?) might go a little differently... if your lawyer was good enough, I'm sure he could convince a jury to aquit you..
I'm personally waiting for this to happen here in Canada, where a "tax" on blank audio CD & tape media already exists.
Per the licensing agreement on the site (http://www.digitalconvergence.com/ula.html or http://www.crq.com/legal.html) you agree to follow thier license if you do any of the following :
/. has to send me $100 USD whenever they post here.
/., when can I expect your money order?
And per the licensing agreement on _MY_ site (the URL of which I'm not going to send you), everybody on
Since you've posted on
who is going to pay a company for support when they can either hire their own people to maintain the source and fix problems
Hmm.. good question...
I work for a company that exists primarily on computer service contracts - that is, other people pay us to fix their computer hardware (to make all the computers run - replacing/upgrading hardware as necessary, to make their networks go, etc.)
Now, looking at your question, why would anyone pay US to maintain their hardware when they can hire their own people? Same answer: BECAUSE IT'S CHEAPER to pay a company a small amount for a large skill pool than to hire your own employee, who has a small skill set.
Our customers pay us about half of what they'd pay for an in-house geek, and they get whatever skill is necessary to solve the problem - if they need a printer guy one day, they get a printer guy; if they need a computer guy the next, they get a computer guy; if they need a network guy the next day, they get a network guy - all for half of the raw cost of a single employee that would only have one of those skill sets (if they're lucky.)
The business model works in other sectors besides software.
It is ... close to being up to speed with Netscape with application zippiness.
How can you say that?
Netscape (atleast all the linux versions I've tried) is painfully slow... (OK, not as slow as Mozilla, but still pretty damn slow.)
Galeon, OTOH is BLAZINGLY fast... it loads faster, displays pages faster, and just works faster than Netscape (under Linux)..
I still use Netscape though, just because I get annoyed at Galeon's (current) Alpha state (ie. no MMB support, or drop downs for links - having to hit the 'back' button is a pain, especially when you always go back to the beginning of the page, instead of where you just were...)
and YES, I realize that these issues are being addressed (even as I write this?)... I'm very anxiously awaiting Galeon..
elegant, isn't it? The algorithm is small, and the compressed data is so tiny, even your OS can't find it!
:o)
Actually, it can't find it because the compression rate is 100%
Here is the equivalent for files (ala gzip)
rm -rf *
Better than gzipping all your files - and faster, too!
It is more appropriate to give the user the choice of using a Flash or non-Flash site.
Wrong.
The proper way to do it is not to offer any content via flash that isn't available to those who don't have the plug-in.
It's called flash for a reason: because flash is diametrically opposed to substance.
substance == content. When someone visits a website, they're there to get information - a web designer's main goal is to make the content as easy to get as possible - everything that impedes this is poor web design. (this includes things such as a page saying 'click here to view our site with flash'.)
The correct way is to provide the content in a viewable manner, and use flash/javascript/whatever as extras for people who have it - if they don't have it, they shouldn't notice (but obviously the site won't look as nice.)
I've got one of those Intellimouse Explorers (the huge silver ones with the superfluous tail light and like three extra buttons;
I've seen these things at computer stores - one question I have is this: If it has a tail light, does it also make a beeping noise when it moves backwards?
Many files should be allowed to share one name.
:o)
Can't do.
Isn't that what directories are for? (You remember directories, don't you Mr. Gelernter - they're those things you say are obsolete.)
Carlos, someone is clueless, but it's not you.