I really cannot see this parody of S.S. I'm not suggesting that they choose from an increasingly dwindling public domain, but rather actually parody the two of them. If you want to assult mcgee and 80s corporations, do so, and make it unambiguous. Say something like "from the people who've whored out your childhood memories for twenty dollars and american mcgee" or otherwise indicate that you have some sort of critical point to make. Not only have you doubled your satirical milage, but you've covered your satirical ass.
Because if you were, then you'd be taking far more time to make yourself familiar with the particulars of the case. Indeed the work was a parody. However American Greeting does not represent American McGee, the video game developer who is/was being parodied. American Greeting takes issue with their Stawberry Shortcake character. Mike and Jerry have a far more difficult case to argue if they want to keep their picture online. Notably, McGee has only been trolling the works of the public domain, specifically, Alice in Wonderland and The Wizard of Oz.
The question isn't about parody and fair use, but whether Strawberry was parodied. I personally don't see it in the work. In fact, if I were PA I'd simply remove the cartoon and revise it such that a far better case could be made that it parodies both McGee and whatever character that best adopts to these legal requirements.
Mike and Jerry have been fairly quiet about the particulars of it themselves, having been wisely told by legal advisors with more wisedom than yourself, or at least more current experience. The only thing they do say is that it isn't very clear -cut, and they're right.
I think the easiest complaint to target here would be regular expressions. I'm sure its plenty useful in the UNIX world but its still yet another demilanguage to learn.
Penny Arcade has wisely not spoken up on the topic, but it could be considered a parody of both American McGee and Strawberry. The American McGee case is trivial. But what about Stawberry? American Greetings, believe it or not, makes greeting cards, not cartoons. American Greetings has liscenced its product to many people, for cartoons, dolls and whatnot. It could be construed to be a commentary of their remarketing of the character (which has happened recently) for a more lucrative market. I honestly don't think that Mike and Jerry intended it, but it could be there. If only they had chosen something with a more sordid history. Like Rainbow Bright, or what not.
It gets a little bit tricky, since disk writes take so long, and consequently, page writes take a while. What you can do is actually find a segment of RAM thats pretty old and hasn't been written to recently, and copy it to disk ahead of time. The overhead is minimal if you're not limited on disk throughput. It helps keep disk channel utilizations up, while reducing peak utilization and latency. I don't claim that this is what windows does, but it has been tried...
Have you ever seen a bit? Because all the DRE's are programmed on firmware. Even if we had the source, we still cannot be sure the provided code is whats on the firmware. Subtle compiler version differences, command line options, etc, can change the binary in large ways. Additionally, its pretty hard to inspect the ROM itself. On an outside against-the-odds shot, they could even resort to altering the binary of the compiler to recognize itself and the ROM, such that source code verification would be useless (similar to the UNIX login and cc hack). Even Open Source doesn't protect us from the manufacturers.
On the other hand, if the code is open, and the code is what's on the firmware, we've exposed the source code and all vulnerabilities. A lone hacker really poses little threa . Really, this is securty through obscurity, but most of the attacks out there rely on knowing lots of intimate details of the system, like compiler version, source code, etc. Without this information, it really is extremely difficult to find and exploit holes. This is something of a double edged sword, however. The certification authorities cannot find and report security holes either. Fortunately, most election officials are concerned with failures under normal conditions, not deliberate tampering. Somewhat odd, that we're concern with whether computers can do it right, rather than whether they can be tampered to do it wrong. I'd call that an argument itself against DRE.
So on the whole, I don't expect that Open Source will be approved.
Actually the challenge with stable fusion isn't the huge amounts of energy required to jumpstart the process, its the matter of not blowing the fuck out of yourself once it starts.
And that might take a bit of work. I guess the most common idea right now is a torus magnetic field to control the plasma, which would probably take plenty of energy. But that doesn't prevent us nessecarily from discovering other methods, like say a microgravity photon conversion system (sure its inefficient and unworkable, but so is everything else these days).
So if its simply gratuitous violence we can call it "cartoon" violence, but if its integral to the plot and specifically condemned, its "ultraviolent." Interesting.
Or the ethical dilemma of being paid for teaching? Socrates (or at least Plato's rendering of him) was offended when called a teacher. For to accept money to teach means an incentive to make the learning hard and the topic overcomplicated. Sound like any academia you know?
What is wrong with OCaml? A small note: Caml came before SML of NJ, so INRIA didn't break the mold intentionally. I haven't written any SML code but from what I've seen there isn't much difference. And it's not like SML is somehow nonacademic, being handled by Princeton, Yale, Lucent and AT&T Research.
I agree that the OO part is kludgy, but in reality rarely used. Its there, but nobody's forcing you to use it (well, maybe a PHB). I personally use tuples and sum types to mimic the important part of polymorphism. Next semester I anticipate finding out more of SML, as the Formal Language Theory teacher came from Princeton. But a somewhat inclusive programming language comparison done by Doug Bagely suggests that OCaml is somewhat faster on most occasions.
Of course, if such languages are going to be widespread, its because it has a decent IDE. Perhaps F# should be the guy to bet on then;)
I'm an undergraduate at Kansas State University in Computer Science, and I'm taking a class named Computers and Society. It deals specifically with the the impact of computing on society and how society responds, so it might not be cut and pasteable for a broad "technology" class. We cover things like copyright and intellectual property, privacy, and designers'/engineers'/programmers' roles in security and safety. Some debatable topics:
Copyright: we want to reward and encourage creators, but we don't want to stifle public dissemination of creations.
Digital Rights Management: Part of DRM is trusted code signatures. We want to protect computers from untrusted code, but it may have side effects like making Open Source implementations illegal
Commercial Email: Many people don't like it, but commercial speech is still speech. What isn't protected is the right to force people to listen to you.
Of course, computing is a smal portion of "technology." A broad course like this should also cover other sciences.
Biology: Should gene's be patentable? Should parents be able to discern their child's genetic traits, like disease? What about gender? What about eye color? How do you enforce such a rule?
Physical sciences: Should we place Wind Farms near one of the last habitats of the prarie chicken, or should we move it further away from population centers to accomodate? Some interesting evidence may come from the Alaskan pipeline.
There's far more sciences out there, these are simply the ones I am most familiar with. I believe that any field has such dilemmas.
First, a small note: I find it conforting that even GCC ignores the compiler warnings offered by gcc. Very rarely does anything useful come of these warnings.
I'd rather have a program that defaults to an uncaught exception and program crash to one that is instead vulnerable. One is somewhat more dangerous than the other, though an uncaught ArrayOutOfBounds or whatnot exception isn't perfect and still results in program crashes.
Indeed the sooner it breaks the sooner it will be fixed in normal applications distributed to society at large. And if you know what you're doing and are ever vigilant you can perhaps avoid these sorts of errors. But its becoming increasingly clear that few and fewer know what they're doing behind that veneer, while still choosing C/C++ because its the standard. To fix this, we can either educate these people in the way of the code warrior or they can select another language. There's an entire body of information on the way of the warrior, so perhaps another language is indeed a viable option. Java actually implements an array class that throws your suggestion of an intelligent object/class built into the library.
Microsft has chosen C#, or Managed C(++). Universities have chosen Java. I'd love to see enterprise level support for OCaml personally, but I think that's doubtful. Stateful inspection of possible overflows is a long way from being complete. It seems a lot of research at my university is focused on such stuff.
If its any consolation, Debian's install script seems to have improved somewhat. The installer now brings up a fairly simple text based screen to select rudimentary packages, like X and window managers. At least it did for me. First linux installation, yay.
But you're right, there's a lot of mixing and matching with hardware interfaces. There's at least three methods of putting sound to the soundcard, and multiple ways of printing. And each of the window managers chooses a slightly different combination thereof to support. I suppose with careful configuration and selective packaging, Linux could be ready for the desktop, but the black shrowds you put on those other options quickly fall off and become garish as the user adds programs to their installation.
Of course, this maximum penalty requires that the defendant meet all 4 requirements and that the judge loves the plantant and hates the defendent. These requirements are things like the commercial or non commercial status of the piracy (did you sell it?), the amount of the work copied, the nature of the work, etc. Its highly unlikely that this suit will be fruitful in current form.
They're missing 2 buttons on it. Thats something of a problem for bringing older titles to the GBA. Street figher? Total bitch to do without 6 buttons.
First off, the emulation of the snes is not that good yet. Second off, people are porting SNES games because they're viable, not because they're similar. ARM is not Motorola. Vastly different, with superscalar execution and the like. Several titles perform polygonal computations without the need for an in ROM chip, like the SuperFX or SuperFX2.
The GP32 is an interesting device, but its generally reguarded as undermarketed and insecure (it comes with the ability to download from your computer BUILT IN). In general, the GBA has similar emulators, though I don't believe anyone has been brave enough to port SNES emulators over to GBA. I would check but it seems that during the writing of this post PocketHeaven has removed its emulator database. I know that PocketNES is coming along finely, with the ability to save states and scale the screen differently with a touch of a button, and mappers being implemented.
The stock market is currently a game of investor psychology. The value of a stock is equal to the potential of the stock for various things like dividend payouts, or a buyout. People also look to the growth of this potential, as new products appear, etc. The thing to recognize is that the economy is not bounded by time. We don't measure profits in percentage of GDP, because it doesn't make sense as a measurement. The number of people employable grows with time. The amount of wealth they can create then grows. There are additional theories that businesses and processes become more "streamlined" with time, reducing costs and improving efficiency, as evidenced by Moore's Law. I stress this, the real economy grows with time.
The one thing that does seem like a scam is the claim that the stock market reflects the economy. In time this results in policy that affects the stockmarket rather than the economy as a whole. One idea that comes to mind was Bush's presidential campaign to let taxpayers put some of their federal pensions into the stock market or some such. I suppose that could result in im proved consumer confidence, but onl y if the pension grows. Consumer confidence is a self fullfilling prophesy, and the market can make no guarentees. Witness the.com bust and the fraud scandals. Another bad policy would be the Microsoft and DoJ issue. Anyone remember what the settlement with MS is? They don't appear particularly hurting over it, with that 40 billion or whatever increasingly/arbitrarily large number is in the bank. There is indeed no guarentee that a large company will grow with the economy, but the economy will grow.
If you don't mind my asking, what exactly happened to the LSI job? They were around for the career fair at KSU and seemed like they wanted to hire, though you never know who's there to hire and who's just there to spread mindshare and peace of mind.
Of course, having to actually buy a video card isn't "Free." The maybe we'll all get lucky and XFree will get off its collective ass, see that it cannot serve its purpose in its current state and find new people to assist.
Until then I suppose the next best thing is to hope for Fresco/Berlin or something.
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I really cannot see this parody of S.S. I'm not suggesting that they choose from an increasingly dwindling public domain, but rather actually parody the two of them. If you want to assult mcgee and 80s corporations, do so, and make it unambiguous. Say something like "from the people who've whored out your childhood memories for twenty dollars and american mcgee" or otherwise indicate that you have some sort of critical point to make. Not only have you doubled your satirical milage, but you've covered your satirical ass.
Because if you were, then you'd be taking far more time to make yourself familiar with the particulars of the case. Indeed the work was a parody. However American Greeting does not represent American McGee, the video game developer who is/was being parodied. American Greeting takes issue with their Stawberry Shortcake character. Mike and Jerry have a far more difficult case to argue if they want to keep their picture online. Notably, McGee has only been trolling the works of the public domain, specifically, Alice in Wonderland and The Wizard of Oz.
The question isn't about parody and fair use, but whether Strawberry was parodied. I personally don't see it in the work. In fact, if I were PA I'd simply remove the cartoon and revise it such that a far better case could be made that it parodies both McGee and whatever character that best adopts to these legal requirements.
Mike and Jerry have been fairly quiet about the particulars of it themselves, having been wisely told by legal advisors with more wisedom than yourself, or at least more current experience. The only thing they do say is that it isn't very clear -cut, and they're right.
We usually call this "research," although the process takes significantly longer than a newsgroup with quick replies.
I think the easiest complaint to target here would be regular expressions. I'm sure its plenty useful in the UNIX world but its still yet another demilanguage to learn.
Good, because I don't what to know what sort of bondage fetishes horses have. On the other hand, the riding crop would probably be more appropriate.
between Asperger's Syndrome rates and gender?
Penny Arcade has wisely not spoken up on the topic, but it could be considered a parody of both American McGee and Strawberry. The American McGee case is trivial. But what about Stawberry? American Greetings, believe it or not, makes greeting cards, not cartoons. American Greetings has liscenced its product to many people, for cartoons, dolls and whatnot. It could be construed to be a commentary of their remarketing of the character (which has happened recently) for a more lucrative market. I honestly don't think that Mike and Jerry intended it, but it could be there. If only they had chosen something with a more sordid history. Like Rainbow Bright, or what not.
It gets a little bit tricky, since disk writes take so long, and consequently, page writes take a while. What you can do is actually find a segment of RAM thats pretty old and hasn't been written to recently, and copy it to disk ahead of time. The overhead is minimal if you're not limited on disk throughput. It helps keep disk channel utilizations up, while reducing peak utilization and latency. I don't claim that this is what windows does, but it has been tried...
They don't use banners, or use pop ups... Maybe they 'embed' ads the way eFront did.
Have you ever seen a bit? Because all the DRE's are programmed on firmware. Even if we had the source, we still cannot be sure the provided code is whats on the firmware. Subtle compiler version differences, command line options, etc, can change the binary in large ways. Additionally, its pretty hard to inspect the ROM itself. On an outside against-the-odds shot, they could even resort to altering the binary of the compiler to recognize itself and the ROM, such that source code verification would be useless (similar to the UNIX login and cc hack). Even Open Source doesn't protect us from the manufacturers.
On the other hand, if the code is open, and the code is what's on the firmware, we've exposed the source code and all vulnerabilities. A lone hacker really poses little threa . Really, this is securty through obscurity, but most of the attacks out there rely on knowing lots of intimate details of the system, like compiler version, source code, etc. Without this information, it really is extremely difficult to find and exploit holes. This is something of a double edged sword, however. The certification authorities cannot find and report security holes either. Fortunately, most election officials are concerned with failures under normal conditions, not deliberate tampering. Somewhat odd, that we're concern with whether computers can do it right, rather than whether they can be tampered to do it wrong. I'd call that an argument itself against DRE.
So on the whole, I don't expect that Open Source will be approved.
Actually the challenge with stable fusion isn't the huge amounts of energy required to jumpstart the process, its the matter of not blowing the fuck out of yourself once it starts.
And that might take a bit of work. I guess the most common idea right now is a torus magnetic field to control the plasma, which would probably take plenty of energy. But that doesn't prevent us nessecarily from discovering other methods, like say a microgravity photon conversion system (sure its inefficient and unworkable, but so is everything else these days).
So if its simply gratuitous violence we can call it "cartoon" violence, but if its integral to the plot and specifically condemned, its "ultraviolent." Interesting.
Because VHDL looks suspiciously like pascal ;).
Or the ethical dilemma of being paid for teaching? Socrates (or at least Plato's rendering of him) was offended when called a teacher. For to accept money to teach means an incentive to make the learning hard and the topic overcomplicated. Sound like any academia you know?
What is wrong with OCaml? A small note: Caml came before SML of NJ, so INRIA didn't break the mold intentionally. I haven't written any SML code but from what I've seen there isn't much difference. And it's not like SML is somehow nonacademic, being handled by Princeton, Yale, Lucent and AT&T Research.
;)
I agree that the OO part is kludgy, but in reality rarely used. Its there, but nobody's forcing you to use it (well, maybe a PHB). I personally use tuples and sum types to mimic the important part of polymorphism. Next semester I anticipate finding out more of SML, as the Formal Language Theory teacher came from Princeton. But a somewhat inclusive programming language comparison done by Doug Bagely suggests that OCaml is somewhat faster on most occasions.
Of course, if such languages are going to be widespread, its because it has a decent IDE. Perhaps F# should be the guy to bet on then
Of course, computing is a smal portion of "technology." A broad course like this should also cover other sciences.
Biology: Should gene's be patentable? Should parents be able to discern their child's genetic traits, like disease? What about gender? What about eye color? How do you enforce such a rule?
Physical sciences: Should we place Wind Farms near one of the last habitats of the prarie chicken, or should we move it further away from population centers to accomodate? Some interesting evidence may come from the Alaskan pipeline.
There's far more sciences out there, these are simply the ones I am most familiar with. I believe that any field has such dilemmas.
I'd rather have a program that defaults to an uncaught exception and program crash to one that is instead vulnerable. One is somewhat more dangerous than the other, though an uncaught ArrayOutOfBounds or whatnot exception isn't perfect and still results in program crashes.
Indeed the sooner it breaks the sooner it will be fixed in normal applications distributed to society at large. And if you know what you're doing and are ever vigilant you can perhaps avoid these sorts of errors. But its becoming increasingly clear that few and fewer know what they're doing behind that veneer, while still choosing C/C++ because its the standard. To fix this, we can either educate these people in the way of the code warrior or they can select another language. There's an entire body of information on the way of the warrior, so perhaps another language is indeed a viable option. Java actually implements an array class that throws your suggestion of an intelligent object/class built into the library.
Microsft has chosen C#, or Managed C(++). Universities have chosen Java. I'd love to see enterprise level support for OCaml personally, but I think that's doubtful. Stateful inspection of possible overflows is a long way from being complete. It seems a lot of research at my university is focused on such stuff.
If its any consolation, Debian's install script seems to have improved somewhat. The installer now brings up a fairly simple text based screen to select rudimentary packages, like X and window managers. At least it did for me. First linux installation, yay.
But you're right, there's a lot of mixing and matching with hardware interfaces. There's at least three methods of putting sound to the soundcard, and multiple ways of printing. And each of the window managers chooses a slightly different combination thereof to support. I suppose with careful configuration and selective packaging, Linux could be ready for the desktop, but the black shrowds you put on those other options quickly fall off and become garish as the user adds programs to their installation.
That would be one hell of an excuse for the loan officer. "I was sued for 87 billion dollars right out of college."
Of course, this maximum penalty requires that the defendant meet all 4 requirements and that the judge loves the plantant and hates the defendent. These requirements are things like the commercial or non commercial status of the piracy (did you sell it?), the amount of the work copied, the nature of the work, etc. Its highly unlikely that this suit will be fruitful in current form.
They're missing 2 buttons on it. Thats something of a problem for bringing older titles to the GBA. Street figher? Total bitch to do without 6 buttons.
The GP32 is an interesting device, but its generally reguarded as undermarketed and insecure (it comes with the ability to download from your computer BUILT IN). In general, the GBA has similar emulators, though I don't believe anyone has been brave enough to port SNES emulators over to GBA. I would check but it seems that during the writing of this post PocketHeaven has removed its emulator database. I know that PocketNES is coming along finely, with the ability to save states and scale the screen differently with a touch of a button, and mappers being implemented.
The one thing that does seem like a scam is the claim that the stock market reflects the economy. In time this results in policy that affects the stockmarket rather than the economy as a whole. One idea that comes to mind was Bush's presidential campaign to let taxpayers put some of their federal pensions into the stock market or some such. I suppose that could result in im proved consumer confidence, but onl y if the pension grows. Consumer confidence is a self fullfilling prophesy, and the market can make no guarentees. Witness the .com bust and the fraud scandals. Another bad policy would be the Microsoft and DoJ issue. Anyone remember what the settlement with MS is? They don't appear particularly hurting over it, with that 40 billion or whatever increasingly/arbitrarily large number is in the bank. There is indeed no guarentee that a large company will grow with the economy, but the economy will grow.
If you don't mind my asking, what exactly happened to the LSI job? They were around for the career fair at KSU and seemed like they wanted to hire, though you never know who's there to hire and who's just there to spread mindshare and peace of mind.
Of course, having to actually buy a video card isn't "Free." The maybe we'll all get lucky and XFree will get off its collective ass, see that it cannot serve its purpose in its current state and find new people to assist.
Until then I suppose the next best thing is to hope for Fresco/Berlin or something.