Sometimes the ideas have been superceeded; sometimes they weren't any good to begin with; often the papers are simply really hard to understand.
By being a professional in your field, such as in computer science, then it should be easy to understand them, since you should have a firm grasp on the concepts presented. Someone with, say, an undergrad degree in CS should have no problem reading, for example Dijkstra's papers (www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/).
The fact that people seriously suggest reading "great papers" reflects on the immaturity of the field; in a field like mathematics, hardly anyone ever reads the original papers (even for work done in the 20th century), instead opting to read someone else's simplification/clarification of the ideas.
It depends on what you're trying to accomplish, and how thorough you want to be. Reading and understanding exactly what those before us were thinking and trying to accomplish can set us on the right path towards finding new things.
A substantially lower levy applies to these digital media due to, among other reasons, the fact that only a relatively small portion of sales of these media are to individual consumers and they are used for a wide variety of uses other than copying sound recordings (e.g., computer data storage).
On your stack of 100 Knoppix CDs, you actually paid $5 worth of tax. Unless you're only paying about 2 cents per disc, that's not really "quadrupling" your costs.
Green CDs have a life of ~5 hours. Yellow CDs ~20 hours. The DARK DARK Blue cd's
I'm curious where you got that from. The original "Golden" CDRs were absolutely awesome, or so I found. Not once did I ever have a problem reading them with anything. They were expensive though.
Second, Copyright dosn't work that way. The author is automatically the owner
Very true, although you're not creating something new, but rather a derivative work of the original author's work. If the original author says that you must assign him/her the copyright to the code to re-distribute derivative works and you refuse to, then you have no legal grounds to redistribute the work at all.
I don't see why they don't offer me $30-$50 a month for the privilige of parking an extra 3-5kW power plant on my roof.
They would however. You can generally sell extra power back to the grid. Plus, you'll have a huge savings in energy costs even if you're still using a bit of grid power.
Three weeks isn't that long for a patch to be out. Many organizations actually test patches out on non-production machines before randomly installing software that Microsoft says is OK.
Looks like I'm going to have my work cut out for me today. I work in a computer repair shop, and every time stuff like this happens, it turns into a madhouse. Last time it happened was over Christmas time, with Yaha.
Let's take this a step further. What if you work at XYZ Computers, and your boss tells you to install Windows 2000 Server on a machine and gives you a burned CD and a serial number for it. What position are you in if you go ahead and install it?
It may be a Microsoft-environment around here, but there have been a few things opposing it.
For one, the school boards around here are all running Sun thin-client servers, with Linux on x86 serving up some of the apps. A lot of them are moving away from Windows entirely.
For two, the rampant piracy around here never ceased to astound me. Microsoft may have their software everywhere, but that doesn't mean they're making money on it.
Just recently, the laws in Canada have changed, moving it from gray area to definately illegal. In my town, there was at least a few cops that had to take down their dishes.
Slashdot Mirror
sharing it with a few roommates
and I'm on the 4.0/640 for $100/month in SK.
But... There are some people who make money developing software, and don't appreciate it when others take their work without paying for it.
Sometimes the ideas have been superceeded; sometimes they weren't any good to begin with; often the papers are simply really hard to understand.
By being a professional in your field, such as in computer science, then it should be easy to understand them, since you should have a firm grasp on the concepts presented. Someone with, say, an undergrad degree in CS should have no problem reading, for example Dijkstra's papers (www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/).
The fact that people seriously suggest reading "great papers" reflects on the immaturity of the field; in a field like mathematics, hardly anyone ever reads the original papers (even for work done in the 20th century), instead opting to read someone else's simplification/clarification of the ideas.
It depends on what you're trying to accomplish, and how thorough you want to be. Reading and understanding exactly what those before us were thinking and trying to accomplish can set us on the right path towards finding new things.
A friend of mine swears by Gmud32 for windows, and Gmudix for linux. They seem to have pretty powerful scripting capabilities.
this is a de facto industry standard; one which hardware manufacturers have intentionally defied for years
Hrm. If the industry doesn't follow it, doesn't sound like much of a de-facto industry standard.
http://www.cb-cda.gc.ca/news/c19992000fs-e.html
CD-Rs and CD-RWs: 5.2 cents per unit
A substantially lower levy applies to these digital media due to, among other reasons, the fact that only a relatively small portion of sales of these media are to individual consumers and they are used for a wide variety of uses other than copying sound recordings (e.g., computer data storage).
On your stack of 100 Knoppix CDs, you actually paid $5 worth of tax. Unless you're only paying about 2 cents per disc, that's not really "quadrupling" your costs.
Cool! I guess I'll have to go out and grab some of the dark dark blue CDs. I've seen a few of them around work... I wonder where they came from...
I chuckled.
Green CDs have a life of ~5 hours. Yellow CDs ~20 hours. The DARK DARK Blue cd's
I'm curious where you got that from. The original "Golden" CDRs were absolutely awesome, or so I found. Not once did I ever have a problem reading them with anything. They were expensive though.
Second, Copyright dosn't work that way. The author is automatically the owner
Very true, although you're not creating something new, but rather a derivative work of the original author's work. If the original author says that you must assign him/her the copyright to the code to re-distribute derivative works and you refuse to, then you have no legal grounds to redistribute the work at all.
We generally charge $30-$40 (CDN), depending on how much time it takes.
I don't see why they don't offer me $30-$50 a month for the privilige of parking an extra 3-5kW power plant on my roof.
They would however. You can generally sell extra power back to the grid. Plus, you'll have a huge savings in energy costs even if you're still using a bit of grid power.
for a LOOOOONG time now
Three weeks isn't that long for a patch to be out. Many organizations actually test patches out on non-production machines before randomly installing software that Microsoft says is OK.
Looks like I'm going to have my work cut out for me today. I work in a computer repair shop, and every time stuff like this happens, it turns into a madhouse. Last time it happened was over Christmas time, with Yaha.
Bah.
The kind of users that respond to spam usually aren't the type that obscure their email addresses like that...
Let's take this a step further. What if you work at XYZ Computers, and your boss tells you to install Windows 2000 Server on a machine and gives you a burned CD and a serial number for it. What position are you in if you go ahead and install it?
The only people they would have to release the source to is LinkSys, unless they distribute this modified version of GCC to others.
However there is absolutely no output from "loading kernel...", to the start of X,
Is VGA Console support turned on?
Ahh... Thank you very much :). That had me pretty confused too.
It may be a Microsoft-environment around here, but there have been a few things opposing it.
For one, the school boards around here are all running Sun thin-client servers, with Linux on x86 serving up some of the apps. A lot of them are moving away from Windows entirely.
For two, the rampant piracy around here never ceased to astound me. Microsoft may have their software everywhere, but that doesn't mean they're making money on it.
Just recently, the laws in Canada have changed, moving it from gray area to definately illegal. In my town, there was at least a few cops that had to take down their dishes.
http://www.usask.ca
Mozilla is the standard in most of the labs. The only ones that don't have moz are the really old machines, which use Netscape 4.something.
Thank you kind sir :) Without that, I would've felt dumb all day.
type in a 4 letter word beginning with "k".
Maybe it's because I just woke up, but I'm having trouble with this one...