Dude, you are SO deprived. If you want a good ending to a good SF story, check out Bujold. The story winds down about 2-3 chapters before the pages run out. The conflict is resolved and then she cleans up all the loose ends and satisfies all your "And then what happened?" cravings.
Cryptonomicon was the best of the three, I'll grant you, but it's still not a good ending to a story. And I don't like to read novels or literature...I like to read stories. Nice, escapist, completely packaged and well-told stories. If I wanted harsh reality I'd put the book down and get back to my life...
Re:Webster's dictionary anyone?
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Popular fiction - you mean like Dickens? The kind of thing that was published in a newspaper? Or perhaps you meant popular fiction like Fitzgerald? The kind of thing that was a bestseller before the term became marketspeak? Or maybe you meant Shakespeare - though he's not technically a literati, as he wrote plays, not novels or short stories. Still, he wrote them for the masses, not for the high-brows.
Hmmm...yes, I'd say that I'm happy to put King in the same category as those guys:) I firmly believe that the "literature" created in the last 25 years will be forgotten in 100 years, but King will be required reading in schools like Dickens is now. Which book do you think is the quintessential King, his "Tale of Two Cities"? I vote for The Stand.
Your analogy is wrong, too. Read my post again. Did I anywhere SUGGEST that they didn't get the award 'based on the substance'? Did you not notice that I went out of my way to point that out? Did you miss the bit about sane people, or the bit about movies standing on their own?
I agree that the comic book's company claim that they were damaged is absurd...ripped off, yes. Damaged, no. If anybody is damaged here, it's MIT. I'd hate to be the professor who authored the proposal..."Yeah, there goes the guy who got his grant with a COMIC BOOK! Har, har, har..."
Why not just sue Thomas' daughter? I doubt they wrote a contract with her that lets her retain ownership of the artwork she provided. It was almost certainly a work for hire - they give her money, she gives them all rights and responsibilities for the picture. MIT could certainly turn around and sue the artist, but with ownership of IP comes the responsibility of ownership. In this case, she stole the image, they paid her for the stolen image, and they're left holding the bag.
The situation is a bit like Caldera buying DR DOS. The point was not that they could do anything with it, but if the IP was damaged by MS, then by owning that IP then Caldera could sue MS.
OK, tell you what. Go find some crooked employer that shorts you on payday. In effect, you should work for free for a week. Then, sue your boss for unfair labor practices. Make sure the lawsuit shows up on popular weblogs visited by the sort of people who are interested in your work. Overall, I think with the resulting publicity, the net effect for you will be positive, so don't bother pressing forward with your suit...let the crooked employer get off scot free so he can tell all his crooked buddies what a great scam he's thought up.
And all those other people who work for crooked employers may not share your ability to get publicity, and they're just out of luck. But that's OK, it worked out for you...no need to actually PUNISH anyone, is there?
There's a big difference between swiping images for a proposal and using those swiped images in the final ad, though. This wasn't a proposal in the sense of "Hey, this is how we think the layout should be, and we've got this picture of a futuristic soldier right here, and..." This was a finished project. This was "Hey, Feds, we'll give you this, you give us money." As I mentioned elsewhere in this discussion, MIT clearly thought that the image contributed to their document; if they didn't, they wouldn't have included it. Since their inclusion of the image helped them get $50 million, I think it's reasonable to suggest that the artist get a slice of that.
I suspect that the document's authors didn't know it was a swipe. The artist should be hung out to dry. Oh, wait, she's some bigwig's daughter, isn't she...
Maybe you should look at the buildings in the background. They're a direct copy - most likely a scan. We're not talking about looking at a character in a book and then drawing the same character in a different pose (although that's clearly part of it). The background looks line-for-line identical to one found in the comic book.
Ummm...maybe the fact that the copied images were used to get MIT over $50 million? I don't think any sane person would suggest that the images were solely responsible for that grant from the Federal government, but why would MIT have included it if they didn't think it would help them get the money? Given that MIT thought the swiped image helpful, and given that the images helped MIT get a TON of cash, I think it follows that the original artist should be compensated.
Your flawed analogy could be corrected like this...
Okay, so how is this any different from downloading an MP3 and using it as part of the soundtrack in a movie that grosses $50 million?
(The soundtrack contributes to the movie, but the movie should pretty well stand on its own...nevertheless, if the soundtrack is part of the movie, if the director thought it added somethig, then the artist should be compensated).
So, what, there's never been a degree in radio engineering before?
I'd go into the huge theory/practice techschool/university debate, but I've finally realized something:
The truly curious and intelligent will get the theory no matter what, because they want to know and find out. The dull masses will not get the theory even when it's taught to them for four years straight. They're probably better served by a practical course of study (with lots of flashing lights).
insisting that the Hebrew used in Genesis can only mean a calendar day.
Might have something to do with the phrase "...and the evenening and the morning were the first day." Given Strong's definitions (below), what other reasonable way is there to interpret it but a calendar day?
From Strong's for evening...
06153 `ereb {eh'-reb}
from 06150; TWOT - 1689a; n m
AV - even 72, evening 47, night 4, mingled 2, people 2, eventide 2,
eveningtide + 06256 2, Arabia 1, days 1, even + 0996 1,
evening + 03117 1, evening + 06256 1, eventide + 06256 1; 137
1) evening, night, sunset
1a) evening, sunset
1b) night
And from Strong's for morning...
01242 boqer {bo'-ker}
from 01239; TWOT - 274c; n m
AV - morning 191, morrow 7, day 3, days + 06153 1, early 3; 205
1) morning, break of day
1a) morning
1a1) of end of night
1a2) of coming of daylight
1a3) of coming of sunrise
1a4) of beginning of day
1a5) of bright joy after night of distress (fig.)
1b) morrow, next day, next morning
Hmm...well, as long as we're on a tirade against hacking, let's tramslate "Cisco" to "Unix"
Go to the local consumer electronics store or any other computer place, get a copy of MS-DOS. $100 max.
The reason to use UNIX is ultimate durability, stability, service, configurability, speed etc etc.
hacking this thing together is gonna give none of the above!
In what setting am i gonna need a cheap ripoff of a professional Unix distribution? Those places that need the real thing usualy also deserve the real thing !
True, but he's not so much asking slashdot if anyone works at his ISP; he's asking how to check up on his ISP. I'll bet there's someone in his LUG who could tell him. I know who in my LUG I'd direct that question to...
I learned all I know from other members of my LUG. What I didn't know I could ask.
Not sure I understand your question...do you?
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Cytlid has a good point - you get a T-1 from the phone company (or a reseller/CLEC) and it either IS a T-1 or it IS NOT.
I suspect that you're asking how you can tell whether or not your ISP is selling 50 million T-1 lines when he himself only has a T-3 connection with the rest of the world.
I think the simplest way is to ask. Talk to the sales engineers who work for the larger guys - tell them "Ok, you're trying to scare me away from a smaller vendor...how can I prove for myself how he's configured?" Ask the small guy "This looks like a really good deal...can you demonstrate to me I'll get X level of performance?"
Yeah, but the judge can toss your butt in the pen for contempt of court, and there's not much you can do about it. You can appeal it, and the appeals court will probably approve of it. Judges are not automatons.
Right. Because Apples can't use TCP/IP. Or SMB. Or IPX/SPX. Or any other protocol. Because they are not programmable and you can't adapt hardware to them.
If it is patented, it is not available for me to do what I want with it. Free software isn't about price; it's about freedom. Try this on for size...you have free speech, but it costs you $.075 for every topic you want to speak on. How is this really different from paying $.075 for each implementation of a standard? How many RFCs are there...are you willing to pay $.075 for each of those?
If vendors put DVDs into a cartridge, it's less likely that you'll scratch it. There's no reason to buy a replacement for an unscratched DVD. Think about it.
Good point. It's worth mentioning that the other end of the continuum can be much worse worse: "a good trainer can train anything" (AGTCTA)*. A geek at least has the knowledge, though it takes a more active learner to pull it out sometimes. An AGTCTA trainer rarely knows more than is in the handouts. They'll teach the what quite readily but rarely know the why. Even if they can tell you why, they rarely pass "WHY WHY WHY" test...try it for fun some time; ask a WHY question, ask WHY about the answer, then ask WHY to the answer to that question. Only subject matter experts can do this in my experience. The best trainers, of course, are trained both subject matter experts and professional trainers.
FWIW, I've taught at both the high school and college level and have been in lots of IT training classes as a student.
*BONUS QUESTION: What dipeptide does this DNA sequnce code? Ignore the lack of a termination triplet.
Hey, those of you who actually operate a printing press raise your hands.
See? There's only about three of them. There's no point in freedom of the press if only three people use it.
Ok, now everyone who's been arrested this week raise your hands.
Only a couple dozen out of a couple hundred thousand? Ok, no point in rights for the accused, then.
Next up, let's see how many of you are black. Only about ten percent? Well, what's the point in those equal protection and non-discrimination clauses? Most people don't need them.
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This comment made me laugh out loud...
Dude, you are SO deprived. If you want a good ending to a good SF story, check out Bujold. The story winds down about 2-3 chapters before the pages run out. The conflict is resolved and then she cleans up all the loose ends and satisfies all your "And then what happened?" cravings.
Cryptonomicon was the best of the three, I'll grant you, but it's still not a good ending to a story. And I don't like to read novels or literature...I like to read stories. Nice, escapist, completely packaged and well-told stories. If I wanted harsh reality I'd put the book down and get back to my life...
Popular fiction - you mean like Dickens? The kind of thing that was published in a newspaper? Or perhaps you meant popular fiction like Fitzgerald? The kind of thing that was a bestseller before the term became marketspeak? Or maybe you meant Shakespeare - though he's not technically a literati, as he wrote plays, not novels or short stories. Still, he wrote them for the masses, not for the high-brows.
:) I firmly believe that the "literature" created in the last 25 years will be forgotten in 100 years, but King will be required reading in schools like Dickens is now. Which book do you think is the quintessential King, his "Tale of Two Cities"? I vote for The Stand.
Hmmm...yes, I'd say that I'm happy to put King in the same category as those guys
Your analogy is wrong, too.
Read my post again. Did I anywhere SUGGEST that they didn't get the award 'based on the substance'? Did you not notice that I went out of my way to point that out? Did you miss the bit about sane people, or the bit about movies standing on their own?
I agree that the comic book's company claim that they were damaged is absurd...ripped off, yes. Damaged, no. If anybody is damaged here, it's MIT. I'd hate to be the professor who authored the proposal..."Yeah, there goes the guy who got his grant with a COMIC BOOK! Har, har, har..."
Why not just sue Thomas' daughter?
I doubt they wrote a contract with her that lets her retain ownership of the artwork she provided. It was almost certainly a work for hire - they give her money, she gives them all rights and responsibilities for the picture. MIT could certainly turn around and sue the artist, but with ownership of IP comes the responsibility of ownership. In this case, she stole the image, they paid her for the stolen image, and they're left holding the bag.
The situation is a bit like Caldera buying DR DOS. The point was not that they could do anything with it, but if the IP was damaged by MS, then by owning that IP then Caldera could sue MS.
OK, tell you what. Go find some crooked employer that shorts you on payday. In effect, you should work for free for a week. Then, sue your boss for unfair labor practices. Make sure the lawsuit shows up on popular weblogs visited by the sort of people who are interested in your work. Overall, I think with the resulting publicity, the net effect for you will be positive, so don't bother pressing forward with your suit...let the crooked employer get off scot free so he can tell all his crooked buddies what a great scam he's thought up.
And all those other people who work for crooked employers may not share your ability to get publicity, and they're just out of luck. But that's OK, it worked out for you...no need to actually PUNISH anyone, is there?
There's a big difference between swiping images for a proposal and using those swiped images in the final ad, though. This wasn't a proposal in the sense of "Hey, this is how we think the layout should be, and we've got this picture of a futuristic soldier right here, and..." This was a finished project. This was "Hey, Feds, we'll give you this, you give us money." As I mentioned elsewhere in this discussion, MIT clearly thought that the image contributed to their document; if they didn't, they wouldn't have included it. Since their inclusion of the image helped them get $50 million, I think it's reasonable to suggest that the artist get a slice of that.
I suspect that the document's authors didn't know it was a swipe. The artist should be hung out to dry. Oh, wait, she's some bigwig's daughter, isn't she...
Maybe you should look at the buildings in the background. They're a direct copy - most likely a scan. We're not talking about looking at a character in a book and then drawing the same character in a different pose (although that's clearly part of it). The background looks line-for-line identical to one found in the comic book.
Ummm...maybe the fact that the copied images were used to get MIT over $50 million? I don't think any sane person would suggest that the images were solely responsible for that grant from the Federal government, but why would MIT have included it if they didn't think it would help them get the money? Given that MIT thought the swiped image helpful, and given that the images helped MIT get a TON of cash, I think it follows that the original artist should be compensated.
Your flawed analogy could be corrected like this...
Okay, so how is this any different from downloading an MP3 and using it as part of the soundtrack in a movie that grosses $50 million?
(The soundtrack contributes to the movie, but the movie should pretty well stand on its own...nevertheless, if the soundtrack is part of the movie, if the director thought it added somethig, then the artist should be compensated).
Why would you need redistribution rights for the following...
Cut 0:12:14-0:12:53
Cut at 0:38:51. Insert into this cut 1:11:05-1:13:26
So, what, there's never been a degree in radio engineering before?
I'd go into the huge theory/practice techschool/university debate, but I've finally realized something:
The truly curious and intelligent will get the theory no matter what, because they want to know and find out. The dull masses will not get the theory even when it's taught to them for four years straight. They're probably better served by a practical course of study (with lots of flashing lights).
Might have something to do with the phrase "...and the evenening and the morning were the first day." Given Strong's definitions (below), what other reasonable way is there to interpret it but a calendar day? From Strong's for evening... And from Strong's for morning...
Hmm...well, as long as we're on a tirade against hacking, let's tramslate "Cisco" to "Unix"
Go to the local consumer electronics store or any other computer place, get a copy of MS-DOS. $100 max.
The reason to use UNIX is ultimate durability, stability, service, configurability, speed etc etc.
hacking this thing together is gonna give none of the above!
In what setting am i gonna need a cheap ripoff of a professional Unix distribution?
Those places that need the real thing usualy also deserve the real thing !
True, but he's not so much asking slashdot if anyone works at his ISP; he's asking how to check up on his ISP. I'll bet there's someone in his LUG who could tell him. I know who in my LUG I'd direct that question to...
I learned all I know from other members of my LUG. What I didn't know I could ask.
Cytlid has a good point - you get a T-1 from the phone company (or a reseller/CLEC) and it either IS a T-1 or it IS NOT.
I suspect that you're asking how you can tell whether or not your ISP is selling 50 million T-1 lines when he himself only has a T-3 connection with the rest of the world.
I think the simplest way is to ask. Talk to the sales engineers who work for the larger guys - tell them "Ok, you're trying to scare me away from a smaller vendor...how can I prove for myself how he's configured?" Ask the small guy "This looks like a really good deal...can you demonstrate to me I'll get X level of performance?"
Prior to NT, all Windows developers were guaranteed that their code would be running as 'root'
True...how many Windows 95-based web servers are there?
Yeah, but the judge can toss your butt in the pen for contempt of court, and there's not much you can do about it. You can appeal it, and the appeals court will probably approve of it. Judges are not automatons.
Right. Because Apples can't use TCP/IP. Or SMB. Or IPX/SPX. Or any other protocol. Because they are not programmable and you can't adapt hardware to them.
A single point:
If it is patented, it is not available for me to do what I want with it. Free software isn't about price; it's about freedom. Try this on for size...you have free speech, but it costs you $.075 for every topic you want to speak on. How is this really different from paying $.075 for each implementation of a standard? How many RFCs are there...are you willing to pay $.075 for each of those?
If vendors put DVDs into a cartridge, it's less likely that you'll scratch it. There's no reason to buy a replacement for an unscratched DVD. Think about it.
The new beetle and the old don't compare. The new has the engine in the front. The new has a water-cooled engine.The old was air-cooled (no radiator).
Good point. It's worth mentioning that the other end of the continuum can be much worse worse: "a good trainer can train anything" (AGTCTA)*. A geek at least has the knowledge, though it takes a more active learner to pull it out sometimes. An AGTCTA trainer rarely knows more than is in the handouts. They'll teach the what quite readily but rarely know the why. Even if they can tell you why, they rarely pass "WHY WHY WHY" test...try it for fun some time; ask a WHY question, ask WHY about the answer, then ask WHY to the answer to that question. Only subject matter experts can do this in my experience. The best trainers, of course, are trained both subject matter experts and professional trainers.
FWIW, I've taught at both the high school and college level and have been in lots of IT training classes as a student.
*BONUS QUESTION: What dipeptide does this DNA sequnce code? Ignore the lack of a termination triplet.
Go read up opn Arrow's Paradox. Method doesn't matter; democracy is impossible. Funny how it works...
Hey, those of you who actually operate a printing press raise your hands.
See? There's only about three of them. There's no point in freedom of the press if only three people use it.
Ok, now everyone who's been arrested this week raise your hands.
Only a couple dozen out of a couple hundred thousand? Ok, no point in rights for the accused, then.
Next up, let's see how many of you are black. Only about ten percent? Well, what's the point in those equal protection and non-discrimination clauses? Most people don't need them.