...is to believe you are capable of being a web designer. Have you been able to tell web design that is "bad" and "good" from your own personal experience? Then you are capable, it has a lot less to do with talent than feel. Without sounding too touchy-feely, you must first make a conscious, rational decision that you can be a "good" web designer simply by knowing the difference for yourself. Given your evolution into web programming, evolving in a different aspect of the field should not be difficult for you.
The copyright law was changed in 1992 to protect the trickle of income from movies made in the 1930s.
Of course, as this article states, this copyright law's unfortuante consequence is the literal decomposition of a portion of our culture before it can be preserved for future generations.
Imagine if great, but not world famous oil paintings now hanging in local museums, courthouses, etc. were left in humid cellars for a hundred years to crack and peel.
Copyright law beyond 30 years has the same net effect for great, but not still profitable film-based media. Imagine if film students didn't study Citizen Kane and Modern Times. We probably wouldn't have a surviving copy of them today. How many other great films we don't even know about have already been lost?
The films on this site are not "great", but taken collectively, they are great cultural and historical repository like any of our libraries or government archives.
As with any right, if one does not defend and exercise it on the most extreme grounds, one will find it gradually being eroded. (i.e. differences in warrants today and twenty years ago...thank you, drug war justice.)
The core issue isn't whether or not the Census bureau is trying to keep your information private, the issue is whether or not they should be collecting detailed information in the first place.
I doubt the Census Bureau is "eager to breach people's privacy", and I do respect their work as valuable--but in the course of their more invasive work, they end up violating people's privacy. The constitutionally mandated right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects includes the right to tell census workers go to sod off.
While that detailed information is most conveniently gathered during the census, I do believe that much of it is invasive, error-prone and would be much better collected through alternative research methods...like, say, measuring school enrollment for education funding and volume, weight and speed of automobile traffic to fund roads.
Apple has "been dying" for the past 10-12 years or so. Just like I wouldn't reccomend Linux for people who have problems running winblows, I wouldn't reccomend an AVID or an SGI to someone who just wants to edit their Public Access TV show.
Having worked on SGIs and Apples (both Mac powered AVIDs and standalone DV-equipped Macs), in both professional and commercial-grade applications, Apple is *far* better at doing most TV-quality applications that need to get done.
Unless you're doing Music Video editing, special effects, or are producing the next 3 hour long movie, an Apple w/ Final Cut Pro (or even Imovie) will do what you want, when you want it to, without having to resort to more costly options that produce only marginally higher quality stuff.
P.S. G4 video output made for TV production and watching DVDs. Most PC video cards are made for playng quake. Which tastes better: Apples or Oranges?
What are the long term benefits of publishing malicious code? Some would argue none; and many may do it simply to make a name for themselves in the community, get a better job, etc.
The point is that some people out there still remain true to figuring out a way to do cool stuff--sure, this might not be something incredibly unique, but these kids who studied how to suspend a car off a bridge w/o hurting anyone are the same kids who will be building tomorrow's suspension bridges--they are tomorrow's tradespeople.
"Part of being an engineer is public safety...It's in our code of ethics -- public safety above all else."
-Julia Steele, president of the University of BC Engineering Undergraduate Society.
Can't we draw a comparison between this and the hacker ethic?
Of course, in the short term, making exploits widely available (or performing them as shown) may temporarily endanger public safety.
However, the long term benefits of pioneering the coolest hack (on-line or off-a-bridge), far outweigh any temporary inconvenience. (Even if we factor in the inevitable script kiddies and copy-cat pranksters.)
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- Apple fanatics will go to religious lengths to defend the latest "it" thing emerging from the mothership.
- Apple detractors will nit-pick the fanatics with facts or (more likely) the next best thing available to them.
- As long as Steve Jobs' delivers more [revolutionary technology/status symbols]
As far as this latest firefight, you're both wrong and you're both right....is to believe you are capable of being a web designer. Have you been able to tell web design that is "bad" and "good" from your own personal experience? Then you are capable, it has a lot less to do with talent than feel. Without sounding too touchy-feely, you must first make a conscious, rational decision that you can be a "good" web designer simply by knowing the difference for yourself. Given your evolution into web programming, evolving in a different aspect of the field should not be difficult for you.
(3) How long before corporations start offering them as schwag?
The copyright law was changed in 1992 to protect the trickle of income from movies made in the 1930s.
Of course, as this article states, this copyright law's unfortuante consequence is the literal decomposition of a portion of our culture before it can be preserved for future generations.
Imagine if great, but not world famous oil paintings now hanging in local museums, courthouses, etc. were left in humid cellars for a hundred years to crack and peel.
Copyright law beyond 30 years has the same net effect for great, but not still profitable film-based media. Imagine if film students didn't study Citizen Kane and Modern Times. We probably wouldn't have a surviving copy of them today. How many other great films we don't even know about have already been lost?The films on this site are not "great", but taken collectively, they are great cultural and historical repository like any of our libraries or government archives.
As with any right, if one does not defend and exercise it on the most extreme grounds, one will find it gradually being eroded. (i.e. differences in warrants today and twenty years ago...thank you, drug war justice.)
The core issue isn't whether or not the Census bureau is trying to keep your information private, the issue is whether or not they should be collecting detailed information in the first place.
I doubt the Census Bureau is "eager to breach people's privacy", and I do respect their work as valuable--but in the course of their more invasive work, they end up violating people's privacy. The constitutionally mandated right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects includes the right to tell census workers go to sod off.
While that detailed information is most conveniently gathered during the census, I do believe that much of it is invasive, error-prone and would be much better collected through alternative research methods...like, say, measuring school enrollment for education funding and volume, weight and speed of automobile traffic to fund roads.
Apple has "been dying" for the past 10-12 years or so. Just like I wouldn't reccomend Linux for people who have problems running winblows, I wouldn't reccomend an AVID or an SGI to someone who just wants to edit their Public Access TV show.
Having worked on SGIs and Apples (both Mac powered AVIDs and standalone DV-equipped Macs), in both professional and commercial-grade applications, Apple is *far* better at doing most TV-quality applications that need to get done.
Unless you're doing Music Video editing, special effects, or are producing the next 3 hour long movie, an Apple w/ Final Cut Pro (or even Imovie) will do what you want, when you want it to, without having to resort to more costly options that produce only marginally higher quality stuff.
P.S. G4 video output made for TV production and watching DVDs. Most PC video cards are made for playng quake. Which tastes better: Apples or Oranges?
What are the long term benefits of publishing malicious code? Some would argue none; and many may do it simply to make a name for themselves in the community, get a better job, etc.
The point is that some people out there still remain true to figuring out a way to do cool stuff--sure, this might not be something incredibly unique, but these kids who studied how to suspend a car off a bridge w/o hurting anyone are the same kids who will be building tomorrow's suspension bridges--they are tomorrow's tradespeople.
Can't we draw a comparison between this and the hacker ethic?
Of course, in the short term, making exploits widely available (or performing them as shown) may temporarily endanger public safety.
However, the long term benefits of pioneering the coolest hack (on-line or off-a-bridge), far outweigh any temporary inconvenience. (Even if we factor in the inevitable script kiddies and copy-cat pranksters.)