Well, as a matter of fact I am history major at Duke University (I see you're Chicago, so I think we can agree that our schools are ROUGHLY equal;) ) and if you're implying that the faculty is leftist beyond belief, I'll agree with that. They snicker at the mention of ANYTHING non-socialist/marxist, so of course I wouldn't be surprised when they don't respect Ayn Rand. Though actually I have had one professor who was a Rand fan, but that's another story.
Copyright is not ownership of ideas. Copyright is ownership of something that you create. Unless you specifically GIVE AWAY your copyrights, no one can take them. Every article you write is automatically copyrighted to you (though it can't hurt to make it explicit). The rights to that article belong to YOU. Simple.
This is why the RIAA calls her arguments (and those like them) "shallo" -- because they show no knowledge of how the law works, and scant common sense as well.
When I sent an email, just as when I send a (snail mail if you will) letter to someone, I have the expectation of privacy. Tampering with mail is an offense. Intercepting email likewise is not acceptable.
But were I to create a website...a PUBLIC website...and put messages to people on there, I would have no reason to complain if I left private information there that somehow got out.
Likewise, when I'm sharing my files, WITH THE INTENT that other people both view and download them, when someone takes me up on that, I have no room to complain. This is very, VERY simple logic folks.
I don't see how she even came up with the idea to claim the RIAA's actions are wrong. If someone shares files, publically, on a public peer2peer network, how can they then go complain when someone sees what they're sharing?
This is a great example of a person who will never create anything worthwhile, and therefore believes that NO ONE should have the right to make a profit off something they produce. Ayn Rand would term you a looter, and so would I.
What's with the venom? Having investigated further, I see that I was wrong. Halley's Comet appeared SHORTLY before the actual Battle of Hastings. But what's an urban legend about this, I'm not sure I understand? It WAS there in 1066 and it WAS huge.
And you capitalize "BAD OMEN" as if to negate something I said? Did I say it was a good omen?
I'm sorry that I was slightly off in my post (I freely acknowledge this), but come on, no reason to get bent out of shape.
Almost 1000 years ago, Halley's Comet was overhead during the Battle of Hastings in the year 1066. That long ago, the comet was said to have virtually filled the sky it was so bright. It must have been perceived as a powerful omen.
I wonder how the Europeans get people to do crappy jobs that nobody wants. Why empty the trash at EuroDisney if you can sit home and live roughly the same life?
They import turks (~2 million in germany), arabs (~10% of the French population) and eastern europes to do their dirty work.
Yeah serious... and it's not like this is a particularly new thing. I find it somewhat sad how 6% unemployment in the US is amazingly bad--I mean, there is a LOT of bad sentiment over that 6%, and yet compared to MUCH of Western Europe, 6% would be great. Also look at economic growth levels--there's a graph in that BBC article. Even in 1999 German growth was pretty minimal.
Would you be referring to the DARPA support (some of the BSD projects have had DARPA support for instance, linux too--in case you didn't know, Rob Watson, core FreeBSD member and on Fbsd Foudation board of directors is a DARPA Principal Investigator ), NSA funding, or something else?
Get off of your bloody high-horse, asshole. I'll bet your job hasn't been out-sourced to India, China or Korea yet.
Let me guess--you would have been a Luddite in England, destroying machines because they eliminated jobs? Because that's all you are--a modern day luddite.
This is all about profit. The corporations want to make more profit, and the way to do it is to get rid of expensive American workers and get cheap over-sea's labor. Your skills don't mean squat to them.
Sure corporations want to make a profit. So do YOU. Check your closet, computer, car. I bet you a lot of those parts come from SE Asia, S Asia, E Asia. Are you a hypocrite for outsourcing your buying sources and buying from a cheap place rather than more expensive american equivalents? Do you really ONLY buy American?
There's no such thing as being so valuable that you can't be replaced by three Indian programmers that cost the company less combined than your salary did
You're VERY wrong here. Plenty of people are valuable. The fact is there are way more programmers than are needed. Not much separates the AVERAGE programmer from another average programmer. *You* may happen to think that you are valuable and worth something to a company, but, as you say, the fact that you can be replaced by Indian labors shows that there is nothing special about you.
Wake the fuck up and start doing something about it before we're all working at Wal-Mart or McDonald's.
Luddite tendencies again..fear of change, very typical. Yours is a very common type--from luddites, to those who feared the end of slavery, to those who feared the switch from a manufacturing economy to where we are today.
That's great, I'm of the opinion that just about anything that you learn from is a good thing. I would also be VERY surprised if average video game playing actually helped hearing, if anything it damages it imho, as most people seem to play at utterly insane volumes. I've always had good ears, and I'm always having to ask people to turn down game and tv volume.
Also, there still is no better way of learning than reading;) And as someone finishing up a humanities degree, the amount of vocab, etc that I've learned from video games over the past 10 years is _maybe_ equal to half of one college course. That doesn't mean video games are bad, but sugar coating them as classroom learning replacements seems ridiculous.
Sadly, while playing a SPECIFIC video game might increase hearing ability (I reference the BBC article the poster linked to) it seems abundantly clear that playing video games does not increase reading skills!
quote:
A simple computer game can dramatically improve children's listening skills by teaching them to distinguish between sounds, new research suggests.
The game is said to boost children's hearing by the equivalent of two years in just a few weeks.
Phonomena was devised by Professor David Moore at Oxford University as an aid for children with language problems.
Wow talk about reading something into nothing... I was merely reporting that the process of certification is not easy--and it took a lot of effort from a lot of good programmers. Did I say ANYWHERE that it should be easy? Did I even imply anywhere that the certification program was bad and should be changed?
Also, why did you put "easier" in quotes the way you did ?
This doesn't mean that you previously couldn't run Java on FreeBSD. You could previously built a native java binary (though you needed to install the Linux JDK first) or you could run the Linux JDK directly.
Now the FreeBSD binaries are certified by Sun (which apparently is hard as anything to get done) and they can be distributed directly as a binary.
Actually I believe it does both things. You can install perl modules via the native perl CPAN interface and they are registered as FreeBSD packages, or you can install a perm module via a FreeBSD package/port.
Everything. Aside from the concerns that trustworthy computing is doublespeak for restricted computing, even if you assume that MS is talking about the *right* kind of trustworthy computing, this virus is the latest in a well-populated freakin' pantheon of examples of their failure to be able to provide anything of the sort.
A failure to patch is a failure to patch. Look at all the root giving bugs that have been found in bind, sendmail, redhat utilities, TONS of other common programs over the years. There are stupid nixbsd administrators and users just as there are windows. People just dont write worms that target a few faulty sendmail installations as often as they target stupid home users who don't patch.
I'm at Duke, and have been none too impressed with the OIT staff. I got a ton of sobig emails in my duke email today. At least all emails are virus scanned and snipped of virus attachments now.
Oh, I think you misunderstood me. I wasn't _criticizing_ the fact that China chose such a, as you describe it, political symbol, and as I see it, a nationalistic one. You might do well to read some about the Chinese government -- to NOT describe the Chinese govt as nationalistic is a very big mistake and shows a poor understanding.
My response would be the same should Suse rebrand their distro as Reich Linux, or the CIA released Uncle Sam Linux.
Does anyone know anything about China's record with regards to free software? I think most people here have read about Red Flag Linux (kinda funny that an OS that prides itself on its openness, internationality, and general disdain for borders would be branded in such a nationalistic way, imho:P) but do we know anything about what China has returned to the community? ie, are they committed to the GPL?
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Well, as a matter of fact I am history major at Duke University (I see you're Chicago, so I think we can agree that our schools are ROUGHLY equal ;) ) and if you're implying that the faculty is leftist beyond belief, I'll agree with that. They snicker at the mention of ANYTHING non-socialist/marxist, so of course I wouldn't be surprised when they don't respect Ayn Rand. Though actually I have had one professor who was a Rand fan, but that's another story.
Copyright is not ownership of ideas. Copyright is ownership of something that you create. Unless you specifically GIVE AWAY your copyrights, no one can take them. Every article you write is automatically copyrighted to you (though it can't hurt to make it explicit). The rights to that article belong to YOU. Simple.
This is why the RIAA calls her arguments (and those like them) "shallo" -- because they show no knowledge of how the law works, and scant common sense as well.
When I sent an email, just as when I send a (snail mail if you will) letter to someone, I have the expectation of privacy. Tampering with mail is an offense. Intercepting email likewise is not acceptable.
But were I to create a website...a PUBLIC website...and put messages to people on there, I would have no reason to complain if I left private information there that somehow got out.
Likewise, when I'm sharing my files, WITH THE INTENT that other people both view and download them, when someone takes me up on that, I have no room to complain. This is very, VERY simple logic folks.
I don't see how she even came up with the idea to claim the RIAA's actions are wrong. If someone shares files, publically, on a public peer2peer network, how can they then go complain when someone sees what they're sharing?
I don't see how it applies.
If you put your files, publically, on a public peer2peer network, what's there to complain about when someone sees what you're sharing?
This is a great example of a person who will never create anything worthwhile, and therefore believes that NO ONE should have the right to make a profit off something they produce. Ayn Rand would term you a looter, and so would I.
What's with the venom? Having investigated further, I see that I was wrong. Halley's Comet appeared SHORTLY before the actual Battle of Hastings. But what's an urban legend about this, I'm not sure I understand? It WAS there in 1066 and it WAS huge.
And you capitalize "BAD OMEN" as if to negate something I said? Did I say it was a good omen?
I'm sorry that I was slightly off in my post (I freely acknowledge this), but come on, no reason to get bent out of shape.
Almost 1000 years ago, Halley's Comet was overhead during the Battle of Hastings in the year 1066. That long ago, the comet was said to have virtually filled the sky it was so bright. It must have been perceived as a powerful omen.
I wonder how the Europeans get people to do crappy jobs that nobody wants. Why empty the trash at EuroDisney if you can sit home and live roughly the same life?
They import turks (~2 million in germany), arabs (~10% of the French population) and eastern europes to do their dirty work.
Yeah serious... and it's not like this is a particularly new thing. I find it somewhat sad how 6% unemployment in the US is amazingly bad--I mean, there is a LOT of bad sentiment over that 6%, and yet compared to MUCH of Western Europe, 6% would be great. Also look at economic growth levels--there's a graph in that BBC article. Even in 1999 German growth was pretty minimal.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3149613.stm
With 10+% unemployment (and still in recession), good luck !
Try unbundling Konqueror from KDE?
Would you be referring to the DARPA support (some of the BSD projects have had DARPA support for instance, linux too--in case you didn't know, Rob Watson, core FreeBSD member and on Fbsd Foudation board of directors is a DARPA Principal Investigator ), NSA funding, or something else?
Somewhat ironic that Linux is now being praised for bundling everything out of the box--exactly what got MS in trouble (IE, WMP, MSN, etc).
Yes, I know the situation isn't exactly analagous, but it still seems rather hypocritical to me.
Get off of your bloody high-horse, asshole. I'll bet your job hasn't been out-sourced to India, China or Korea yet.
Let me guess--you would have been a Luddite in England, destroying machines because they eliminated jobs? Because that's all you are--a modern day luddite.
This is all about profit. The corporations want to make more profit, and the way to do it is to get rid of expensive American workers and get cheap over-sea's labor. Your skills don't mean squat to them.
Sure corporations want to make a profit. So do YOU. Check your closet, computer, car. I bet you a lot of those parts come from SE Asia, S Asia, E Asia. Are you a hypocrite for outsourcing your buying sources and buying from a cheap place rather than more expensive american equivalents? Do you really ONLY buy American?
There's no such thing as being so valuable that you can't be replaced by three Indian programmers that cost the company less combined than your salary did
You're VERY wrong here. Plenty of people are valuable. The fact is there are way more programmers than are needed. Not much separates the AVERAGE programmer from another average programmer. *You* may happen to think that you are valuable and worth something to a company, but, as you say, the fact that you can be replaced by Indian labors shows that there is nothing special about you.
Wake the fuck up and start doing something about it before we're all working at Wal-Mart or McDonald's.
Luddite tendencies again..fear of change, very typical. Yours is a very common type--from luddites, to those who feared the end of slavery, to those who feared the switch from a manufacturing economy to where we are today.
That's great, I'm of the opinion that just about anything that you learn from is a good thing. I would also be VERY surprised if average video game playing actually helped hearing, if anything it damages it imho, as most people seem to play at utterly insane volumes. I've always had good ears, and I'm always having to ask people to turn down game and tv volume.
;) And as someone finishing up a humanities degree, the amount of vocab, etc that I've learned from video games over the past 10 years is _maybe_ equal to half of one college course. That doesn't mean video games are bad, but sugar coating them as classroom learning replacements seems ridiculous.
Also, there still is no better way of learning than reading
quote:
A simple computer game can dramatically improve children's listening skills by teaching them to distinguish between sounds, new research suggests.
The game is said to boost children's hearing by the equivalent of two years in just a few weeks.
Phonomena was devised by Professor David Moore at Oxford University as an aid for children with language problems.
Wow talk about reading something into nothing... I was merely reporting that the process of certification is not easy--and it took a lot of effort from a lot of good programmers. Did I say ANYWHERE that it should be easy? Did I even imply anywhere that the certification program was bad and should be changed?
Also, why did you put "easier" in quotes the way you did ?
Yes, you can install it through ports (and compiling it) or by downloading a precompiled package.
This doesn't mean that you previously couldn't run Java on FreeBSD. You could previously built a native java binary (though you needed to install the Linux JDK first) or you could run the Linux JDK directly.
Now the FreeBSD binaries are certified by Sun (which apparently is hard as anything to get done) and they can be distributed directly as a binary.
Actually I believe it does both things. You can install perl modules via the native perl CPAN interface and they are registered as FreeBSD packages, or you can install a perm module via a FreeBSD package/port.
Already like this on FreeBSD systems. Called BSDPAN. Perl can be installed through the ports tree, and upgraded as easily.
Everything. Aside from the concerns that trustworthy computing is doublespeak for restricted computing, even if you assume that MS is talking about the *right* kind of trustworthy computing, this virus is the latest in a well-populated freakin' pantheon of examples of their failure to be able to provide anything of the sort.
A failure to patch is a failure to patch. Look at all the root giving bugs that have been found in bind, sendmail, redhat utilities, TONS of other common programs over the years. There are stupid nixbsd administrators and users just as there are windows. People just dont write worms that target a few faulty sendmail installations as often as they target stupid home users who don't patch.
I'm at Duke, and have been none too impressed with the OIT staff. I got a ton of sobig emails in my duke email today. At least all emails are virus scanned and snipped of virus attachments now.
Oh, I think you misunderstood me. I wasn't _criticizing_ the fact that China chose such a, as you describe it, political symbol, and as I see it, a nationalistic one. You might do well to read some about the Chinese government -- to NOT describe the Chinese govt as nationalistic is a very big mistake and shows a poor understanding.
My response would be the same should Suse rebrand their distro as Reich Linux, or the CIA released Uncle Sam Linux.
Does anyone know anything about China's record with regards to free software? I think most people here have read about Red Flag Linux (kinda funny that an OS that prides itself on its openness, internationality, and general disdain for borders would be branded in such a nationalistic way, imho :P) but do we know anything about what China has returned to the community? ie, are they committed to the GPL?