Agreed. The one issue that hasn't been brought up yet is the problem of model releases and similar legal BS. It seems most of the amature photographers posting here are assuming landscapes or textures. However, if you want "happy people using computers" photos for your marketing docs you'll need to deal with these issues whether or not you are a professional.
The article is detail light, but one of the examples that they used had nothing to do with source code copyright. (It didn't seem to have anything to do with software either, but that's beside the point.)
In one well-known case, Lexmark International invoked copyright laws to prevent a competitor from making computer circuits that allow cheaper inkjet cartridges to work on its printers.
Part of the problem is semantics. Is the lawsuit intended to remove copyright protection from "software" (In my mind, the compiled and built executable) or from "source code" (the product of a creative impulse and SHOULD be protected by copyright law IMHO.) If the lawsuit helps limit the abuses of copyright law ("look and feel", DMCA contraints, etc) then I agree with the aims completely, but if it intends to remove copyright protection from source code then I think it is a travesty.
In the last month or so I've started getting spam in my gmail account. While their filters are pretty good, it would be nice if there was a mechanism by which everything that went into the Spam directory has a spoofed "address not found" message sent out. If the filters happened to catch a legit email, then I could let that individual know that I got their message.
I've always been more interested in getting my computer to read to me.
From looking at the Festival ( http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/ ) documentation it seems that this limiting factor isn't difficulty of programming but the cost and time required to record all of the required diphones (?) and build the required lexicon.
It seems that we (as a profession) have given up trying to synthesize voice so that it sounds real and depend upon recorded speech fragments instead. Is this the end of my dream of having my source code recited back to me in Sophie Marceau's voice?
This is a interesting problem for the international dictionary. Which spanish (or english or portugese or whatever) gets the "definitive" mapped word and which ones are the special cases? Do you place Brazillian Portugese in a seperate column from European Portugeze or do you put all the differenct versions of words in the same database row?
It seems that the example scheme is a little simplistic to map to the real world but maybe that is by design?
I think Euler has a point. Government debt isn't paid off like a school loan. If I understand correctly, treasuries (which is how the government takes out loans) are paid in full at the maturity of the treasury. I'm sure it's more complicated than this, but in the simple case a 10 year $1000 treasury bond at 5% would cost the government (at the end of that period) approximately $1600 ($1000 principle and $600 interest).
Since no one is seriously planning on being back on a surplus for over ten years much less paying anything back, I think the multiplication comes from a 30 year payoff (which also matches up with the "gold standard" 30 year treasury bond). At 2.35% over a 30 year period the mutiplier is almost exactly 1.4. Using OpenOffice Calc, of course;-)
The current "coupon" for the 30 year treasury is over 5% (which would increase the multiplier to over 2.0), but I don't know enough about how these things work to know if that is applicable to the current discussion.
The actual total cost to the end of the year is approximately $152,000,000,000 based on additional Congressional appropriations (over the normal cost of the military) since the start of the war. However, since this money is borrowed (not out of a big piggy back somewhere) the actual cost should by multiplied by 1.4 to factor in the cost of interest for a grand total of $212,800,000,000. Since March 2003, that works out to approximately $9,670,000,000 per month or $322,000,000 per day or $3731 per second.
Look around your cube farm and point to the best developer in your group. You know, the one that actually does 5 to 100 times more work than anyone else.
Now, go over to him and tell him your salary and ask him if he makes 5 to 100 times more than you do.
When he say, "no", feel free to laugh at him. Now explain to him that under a union he still wouldn't be making 5 to 100 times more than you, and therefore he should be glad that there isn't a union.
This is the quote that burns me up: "[developers] relish flexibility".
This is supposed to imply that a salary-based schedule allows professionals a little flexibility in their work hours not like the poor blue-collar bastards that have to punch a clock.
Salary was supposed to mean that some weeks you work a little more, some weeks a little less, but in general you puting 40 hours a week. The entire concept of salary is meaningless if your continued employment depends upon you working 60+ hours a week.
I thought I read recently that California doesn't allow that exemption for anyone with an hourly rate under $42. Is that correct? Maybe I read the comment out of context.
Could you site some sources regarding the "heavy regulation" under which the Indian Government forced UC to toil?
I don't rememeber a lot of press at the time regarding the "repressive nanny state" that was late-80's India. Perhaps you're confusing India with another country with strict corporate oversight like China or Romania?
Well, it fucking sucks for the polar bears, but I guess we can put a few in zoos or something. It also sucks for all the little old people living on the beach in Florida but that might be a good thing. Social Security might last a little longer. It's not that great for the masses of people in Bangladesh, but, to be honest, I don't know anyone over there so I don't really care.
Finally, as far as investment opportunities in the Sahara are concerned, it might not be such a bad thing.
Suppressors are not difficult to manufacture, after all, although it's a felony to do so (or to possess one), in violation of the 1934 National Firearms Act...
Under US APAT RIOT act of 2001 (secret clause 87) it's a felony to search for instructions on how to build a silencer as well. Enjoy your stay at gitmo.
You still have to get the Internet access from somewhere, right? So are your really planning on hooking that hotspot up to your cable or DSL modem when you agreement with Verizon or Comcast states specifically that you will lose your service if you do?
If it's not against your Service Agreement yet, just wait until you and your friends start up your little network... The legaleses will be in the mail before you can blink.
Agreed in general, but we live in the real world and in the real world there ain't no such thing as a free market. It's a little difficult for me to argue the benefits of a free market on behalf of a government sanctioned monopoly. You're either going to subsidize wifi as a taxpayer or as a telephone service consumer. And given Verizon's record of customer support give me a government office any day of the week.
Or, do you honestly think Verizon is going to keep their local telephone monopoly completely separate from their wifi service (no putting antennas on telephone polls, paying full price [to themselves] for internet access, etc..)
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Also, including the new comedy short LOTR:ROTF (LMAO)
Well, ye'all got four more years to change the streotypes, ya'hear. If'n the republicans became the party of the environment no'un would be happier than me.
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The parent ain't a troll, but it looks like there is a jihadist out there with mod points.
Shit, Kansas just passed a law mandating that colleges teach a graduate-level "sub-atomic Creationism" course.
And, if it's your first time on Slashdot, you have to mod me up.
Grew up on the Oregon coast. Sounds like cow pucky to me. Why would the sea retreat?
Agreed. The one issue that hasn't been brought up yet is the problem of model releases and similar legal BS. It seems most of the amature photographers posting here are assuming landscapes or textures. However, if you want "happy people using computers" photos for your marketing docs you'll need to deal with these issues whether or not you are a professional.
Part of the problem is semantics. Is the lawsuit intended to remove copyright protection from "software" (In my mind, the compiled and built executable) or from "source code" (the product of a creative impulse and SHOULD be protected by copyright law IMHO.) If the lawsuit helps limit the abuses of copyright law ("look and feel", DMCA contraints, etc) then I agree with the aims completely, but if it intends to remove copyright protection from source code then I think it is a travesty.
The three-dimensional objects were separated with (forward) slashes. That's how she knew.
In the last month or so I've started getting spam in my gmail account. While their filters are pretty good, it would be nice if there was a mechanism by which everything that went into the Spam directory has a spoofed "address not found" message sent out. If the filters happened to catch a legit email, then I could let that individual know that I got their message.
I've always been more interested in getting my computer to read to me.
From looking at the Festival ( http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/ ) documentation it seems that this limiting factor isn't difficulty of programming but the cost and time required to record all of the required diphones (?) and build the required lexicon.
It seems that we (as a profession) have given up trying to synthesize voice so that it sounds real and depend upon recorded speech fragments instead. Is this the end of my dream of having my source code recited back to me in Sophie Marceau's voice?
This is a interesting problem for the international dictionary. Which spanish (or english or portugese or whatever) gets the "definitive" mapped word and which ones are the special cases? Do you place Brazillian Portugese in a seperate column from European Portugeze or do you put all the differenct versions of words in the same database row?
It seems that the example scheme is a little simplistic to map to the real world but maybe that is by design?
I think Euler has a point. Government debt isn't paid off like a school loan. If I understand correctly, treasuries (which is how the government takes out loans) are paid in full at the maturity of the treasury. I'm sure it's more complicated than this, but in the simple case a 10 year $1000 treasury bond at 5% would cost the government (at the end of that period) approximately $1600 ($1000 principle and $600 interest).
Since no one is seriously planning on being back on a surplus for over ten years much less paying anything back, I think the multiplication comes from a 30 year payoff (which also matches up with the "gold standard" 30 year treasury bond). At 2.35% over a 30 year period the mutiplier is almost exactly 1.4. Using OpenOffice Calc, of course ;-)
PMT(2.35% [rate],30 [periods],1000 [start],0 [end]) = $1,404.82
The current "coupon" for the 30 year treasury is over 5% (which would increase the multiplier to over 2.0), but I don't know enough about how these things work to know if that is applicable to the current discussion.
The actual total cost to the end of the year is approximately $152,000,000,000 based on additional Congressional appropriations (over the normal cost of the military) since the start of the war. However, since this money is borrowed (not out of a big piggy back somewhere) the actual cost should by multiplied by 1.4 to factor in the cost of interest for a grand total of $212,800,000,000. Since March 2003, that works out to approximately $9,670,000,000 per month or $322,000,000 per day or $3731 per second.
Thank god he's not doing cloning work.
"Oh, damn, I thought I had a sheep in that petri dish, but it looks like I've cloned myself again."
It has already begun! The first line of defense against the foreigners has been erected!
Bush website adopts isolationist stance
You have a point, but lets be honest.
Look around your cube farm and point to the best developer in your group. You know, the one that actually does 5 to 100 times more work than anyone else.
Now, go over to him and tell him your salary and ask him if he makes 5 to 100 times more than you do.
When he say, "no", feel free to laugh at him. Now explain to him that under a union he still wouldn't be making 5 to 100 times more than you, and therefore he should be glad that there isn't a union.
Now, go back to posting on slashdot.
This is the quote that burns me up: "[developers] relish flexibility".
This is supposed to imply that a salary-based schedule allows professionals a little flexibility in their work hours not like the poor blue-collar bastards that have to punch a clock.
Salary was supposed to mean that some weeks you work a little more, some weeks a little less, but in general you puting 40 hours a week. The entire concept of salary is meaningless if your continued employment depends upon you working 60+ hours a week.
I thought I read recently that California doesn't allow that exemption for anyone with an hourly rate under $42. Is that correct? Maybe I read the comment out of context.
Could you site some sources regarding the "heavy regulation" under which the Indian Government forced UC to toil?
I don't rememeber a lot of press at the time regarding the "repressive nanny state" that was late-80's India. Perhaps you're confusing India with another country with strict corporate oversight like China or Romania?
Well, it fucking sucks for the polar bears, but I guess we can put a few in zoos or something. It also sucks for all the little old people living on the beach in Florida but that might be a good thing. Social Security might last a little longer. It's not that great for the masses of people in Bangladesh, but, to be honest, I don't know anyone over there so I don't really care.
Finally, as far as investment opportunities in the Sahara are concerned, it might not be such a bad thing.
Suppressors are not difficult to manufacture, after all, although it's a felony to do so (or to possess one), in violation of the 1934 National Firearms Act...
Under US APAT RIOT act of 2001 (secret clause 87) it's a felony to search for instructions on how to build a silencer as well. Enjoy your stay at gitmo.
You still have to get the Internet access from somewhere, right? So are your really planning on hooking that hotspot up to your cable or DSL modem when you agreement with Verizon or Comcast states specifically that you will lose your service if you do?
If it's not against your Service Agreement yet, just wait until you and your friends start up your little network... The legaleses will be in the mail before you can blink.
Agreed in general, but we live in the real world and in the real world there ain't no such thing as a free market. It's a little difficult for me to argue the benefits of a free market on behalf of a government sanctioned monopoly. You're either going to subsidize wifi as a taxpayer or as a telephone service consumer. And given Verizon's record of customer support give me a government office any day of the week.
Or, do you honestly think Verizon is going to keep their local telephone monopoly completely separate from their wifi service (no putting antennas on telephone polls, paying full price [to themselves] for internet access, etc..)
Also, including the new comedy short LOTR:ROTF (LMAO)
Well, ye'all got four more years to change the streotypes, ya'hear. If'n the republicans became the party of the environment no'un would be happier than me.
Best of luck, padner.