Copyright always covers the expression of an idea, so it will cover the whole of the new material. Each version will have its own copyright. And no, it does not cover the graphical layout.
But the answer to your last question is undoubtedly "Yes."
And then they put police on the street, and soon they'll be in our homes, watching our every move. Right?
Forgive my sarcastic paranoia. Let's talk Civics 101 - there are some things a society has to give up (e.g. the ability to be able to perform any action without fear of consequence, complete anonymity) in order to have a society at all. The little slices you're talking about come no where close to 1984. We live (in the United States) in a democratic republic, which means that, by and large, the little slices are subject to numerous checks and balances. Get involved, and have a bit more faith in the system of which you are a significant part.
That's one way to get karma. You pretend you're smarter than the people who created the cool technology by pointing out failures in its current implementation.
Watch and learn, and you too could become a karma whore one day...
It seems like this is something that needs to be taught in schools. I don't recall ANY of my professors ever talking about how to write secure code. They ought to teach the difference between printf(str) and printf("%s", str), at least.
Strangely enough, that's the extent of my knowledge on writing unbreakable code. Does anybody out there have links to some good reference material on this?
As far as I'm concerned, the eyes of hurricanes have been a private playground for a government chosen elite for far too long. I think I'll take my next vacation in one...
The next generation will be much harder to separate from the content, seeing as how an entire cottage industry has sprung up devoted to selling tools to consumers which prevent ads from appearing before their eyes.
The next generation will be more subtle - like in "The Truman Show" where all their money was made from product placement. The content providers will be the advertisers as well. We'll be seeing Taco using and plugging Debian, the whole Slashdot crew buying Playstation 2's, and JonKatz will be buttering up the masses by extolling the virtues of video game addicts.
I keep pitching my epic space opera about alien robots who infest our planet and live off celebrities dryer lint to various publishers, but nobody wants to publish a book written by a leader of mexican food, and starring a hero named Litmus VanCenturfuge and his sidekick Pipet Jerks.
Would this be an autobiography? Dude, you're more whacked than I thought...
Frankly, when I think of racism, intolerance, and ignorance, "Republican" is the first word that pops into my head.
My grandparents have always been good Republicans. Way back when it was a very unpopular thing to do, they adopted a Native American boy and raised him as a son. That's certainly racist, isn't it?
Your attitude of labeling a group of people is where racism and intolerance come from in the first place.
He's the perfect guy to symbolize how fucked up things are nowadays.
Okay, am I the only person in the entire universe that thinks little-endian is correct?
The only reason we think big-endian is right is because we are so used to thinking about numbers as written digits, ordered largest to smallest. Consider this binary number:
And we think, "Oh! Let's store that number in the order we read it in!" And thus is born big-endian. The first eight bits (on the left) are in byte 0, the next eight bits (on the right) in byte 1.
In reality, your bits end up being ordered 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.
Folks, that's backwards. Think about memory going from left to right - you want your bits stored 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, or in a continuous fasion. That's little-endian. It seems unnatural because when we write those bits, we order them from biggest to smallest - or 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0, 15, 14, 13, 12, 11, 10, 9, 8. That's the wrong direction, and that's why people get confused.
If this confused you, think about it for a bit more. It's absolutely correct.
But one thing I do think is strange is Intel's backwards stack (grows down in memory). That's weird.
I must be a bit thick today, since I can't decide whether or not it would have been appropriate to enclose your comment in tags. But in case you were serious, a "lorry" is a large truck. Think "Mack" or "Peterbilt" - anything bigger than a pickup and with lots of wheels (the rubber parts of which are "tyres").
If you think "materialise" is weird, try this one - in America, we spell it "advertise," but in Britain, according to Merriam Webster, they spell it "advertize."
Okay, it's a short comment, but it should be modded up a bit more. It's from a Borland developer, and it actually answers a great deal of the questions asked in other posts to this story.
CLX - that's basically the VCL, right (give or take)? Will this be dual-licensed, or just GPL?
I put together a Duron 700 with an ATI Radeon DDR 32MB and 128MB of RAM (among other stuff) for about the same.
I'm a desktop user, though. I'm absolutely sure this will have a great appeal to toilet users, and they'll be the ones forking over the dough for these things.
Looks like people are a bit afraid to answer you, with your personal experience with the subject and all. Here I go:
Her social and emotional well-being seem to be much healthier than my own.
Could be many other factors besides who raised you. Children are their own people, and some are actually (believe it or not) born with a tendency to be socially unhealthy. That's not to say that in that case it will always come to fruition, but there are definite tendencies.
I found that while I was on maternity leave, we were developing an unhealthy dependence on each other.
Where in the <expletive> did you get the idea that a child's dependence on his mother is unhealthy? I'm sick to death of people thinking that dependence in any form is a bad thing. It is if the child becomes an adult without becoming independent, but a newborn? Come on. They're built to be dependent, and you know it.
When I am home, I spend the vast majority of my free time interacting with her, but I think we're spending more quality time together now.
Quantity and quality is the key, not one or the other. Both must exist. The quality of time my wife spends with Emma (seven months old next week) has remained about the same, but since we got her a baby carrier (to free her hands while she's holding her), Emma's been much happier. No more quality, but much more quantity. It's absolutely amazing.
Since I'm homebody and somewhat asocial, I know she's getting much richer experience out of the house.
Does your child need experiences out of the house more than he needs you? Oh, wait, I forgot. You think that's unhealthy (see above).
I've also learned quite a bit from the people running the daycare that I may have had to discover the hard way.
Well good! Though, you might have learned that from your own parents and parents-in-law, or friends that already have children.
I'm hoping that when my daughter is old enough to start kindergarten, she will already have at least one friend in her class.
That's why you acquaint yourself with other parents and their children. But back to the benefit - isn't that a large price to pay? At least one friend vs. being raised by his own mother?
My decision to use daycare was not an abdication of parental responsibility. It's a personal decision where in my case, the pros outweighed the cons.
It seems like you believe that "abdication of parental responsibility" and "personal decision" are mutually exclusive. Let me assure you that they are not - in fact, every abdication of responsibility is also a personal decision. (By the way, I hate how people nowadays are using the words "personal decision" to validate everything and expecting people to applaud them for it.)
I don't think you made up the list of pros and cons and then made the decision. Most of those "pros" for day care are either not really pros, or you could have handled in a better way - such as actually getting yourself out of the house, learning from people who are already parents (or learning it yourself - gasp!), and getting to know the neighbors.
It's nice to come up with a list of pros and cons, but not after the fact. You had the child. Stop rationalizing, and raise him yourself if you have the means.
Daycare workers have degrees in Developmental Psychology, Early childhood education, etc. etc. etc. If anything, they're more qualified than YOU are to raise a kid.
Who really has an interest in the development of a child more than the child's parents? That's the best qualification there is. Also, a day care professional cannot possibly give every child the attention that a parent can.
And when the child grows up, has he learned to trust his parents? Well, it wasn't his parents who read him stories or taught him how life works. It wasn't his parents who showed him love and respect, and taught him how to share. And most likely, nobody taught him that there are consequences for his actions through discipline.
Your argument is typical of someone feeling guilty for not taking responsibility. It's called rationalizing. I've heard it many, many times. Guess what? Day care is not the best place for a young child to be, and young children do not need to learn social interaction skills that early, and certainly not from other children. How can you possibly expect a child to learn how to socially interact properly when they learn it mainly from other children?
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Copyright always covers the expression of an idea, so it will cover the whole of the new material. Each version will have its own copyright. And no, it does not cover the graphical layout.
But the answer to your last question is undoubtedly "Yes."
Just so you know - everyone who has ever written a piece of code has developed intellectual property. As soon as you create it, it's copyrighted.
The same thing goes for code you create at work. As soon as you create it, it's not only copyrighted, it's a trade secret.
There's nothing you can do about it.
Oh no! Don't photograph me! Not in public!
Do we expect to have complete anonymity in public now? I think our experiences with that on the Internet have spoiled us some...
And then they put police on the street, and soon they'll be in our homes, watching our every move. Right?
Forgive my sarcastic paranoia. Let's talk Civics 101 - there are some things a society has to give up (e.g. the ability to be able to perform any action without fear of consequence, complete anonymity) in order to have a society at all. The little slices you're talking about come no where close to 1984. We live (in the United States) in a democratic republic, which means that, by and large, the little slices are subject to numerous checks and balances. Get involved, and have a bit more faith in the system of which you are a significant part.
(I mentioned 1984 - do I get free karma?)
That's one way to get karma. You pretend you're smarter than the people who created the cool technology by pointing out failures in its current implementation.
Watch and learn, and you too could become a karma whore one day...
The company I work for sued someone for just that. It was destruction of company property - just because you worked on it doesn't mean you own it.
It seems like this is something that needs to be taught in schools. I don't recall ANY of my professors ever talking about how to write secure code. They ought to teach the difference between printf(str) and printf("%s", str), at least.
Strangely enough, that's the extent of my knowledge on writing unbreakable code. Does anybody out there have links to some good reference material on this?
As far as I'm concerned, the eyes of hurricanes have been a private playground for a government chosen elite for far too long. I think I'll take my next vacation in one...
The next generation will be much harder to separate from the content, seeing as how an entire cottage industry has sprung up devoted to selling tools to consumers which prevent ads from appearing before their eyes.
The next generation will be more subtle - like in "The Truman Show" where all their money was made from product placement. The content providers will be the advertisers as well. We'll be seeing Taco using and plugging Debian, the whole Slashdot crew buying Playstation 2's, and JonKatz will be buttering up the masses by extolling the virtues of video game addicts.
Oh, wait...
Every time I flip through the american networks (most of our television is crap)...
You flip through American shows because your stuff is crap? Wow. Out-crapping American television certainly is a feat...
We need a +1, Darn Good Flame.
I'd let the kid carry out his threat, just to see if he would. If he did, he'd be in counseling. Problem solved.
I keep pitching my epic space opera about alien robots who infest our planet and live off celebrities dryer lint to various publishers, but nobody wants to publish a book written by a leader of mexican food, and starring a hero named Litmus VanCenturfuge and his sidekick Pipet Jerks.
Would this be an autobiography? Dude, you're more whacked than I thought...
I'll pick on your pre-conceived notions first:
Frankly, when I think of racism, intolerance, and ignorance, "Republican" is the first word that pops into my head.
My grandparents have always been good Republicans. Way back when it was a very unpopular thing to do, they adopted a Native American boy and raised him as a son. That's certainly racist, isn't it?
Your attitude of labeling a group of people is where racism and intolerance come from in the first place.
He's the perfect guy to symbolize how fucked up things are nowadays.
I thought that was Clinton.
Okay, am I the only person in the entire universe that thinks little-endian is correct?
The only reason we think big-endian is right is because we are so used to thinking about numbers as written digits, ordered largest to smallest. Consider this binary number:
15141312111009080706050403020100
0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0
And we think, "Oh! Let's store that number in the order we read it in!" And thus is born big-endian. The first eight bits (on the left) are in byte 0, the next eight bits (on the right) in byte 1.
In reality, your bits end up being ordered 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.
Folks, that's backwards. Think about memory going from left to right - you want your bits stored 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, or in a continuous fasion. That's little-endian. It seems unnatural because when we write those bits, we order them from biggest to smallest - or 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0, 15, 14, 13, 12, 11, 10, 9, 8. That's the wrong direction, and that's why people get confused.
If this confused you, think about it for a bit more. It's absolutely correct.
But one thing I do think is strange is Intel's backwards stack (grows down in memory). That's weird.
Thanks. I was wondering. Do all English-speaking non-Americans consider the -ize ending archaic?
I must be a bit thick today, since I can't decide whether or not it would have been appropriate to enclose your comment in tags. But in case you were serious, a "lorry" is a large truck. Think "Mack" or "Peterbilt" - anything bigger than a pickup and with lots of wheels (the rubber parts of which are "tyres").
If you think "materialise" is weird, try this one - in America, we spell it "advertise," but in Britain, according to Merriam Webster, they spell it "advertize."
Go figure.
Only if their audience is American.
The mold is of earthly origin - it's nothing special.
Oh, but it isn't! DIDN'T YOU EVEN SEE THE MOVIE GREEN SLIME???
(I didn't think I'd need the <sarcasm> tag.)
Okay, it's a short comment, but it should be modded up a bit more. It's from a Borland developer, and it actually answers a great deal of the questions asked in other posts to this story.
CLX - that's basically the VCL, right (give or take)? Will this be dual-licensed, or just GPL?
I put together a Duron 700 with an ATI Radeon DDR 32MB and 128MB of RAM (among other stuff) for about the same.
I'm a desktop user, though. I'm absolutely sure this will have a great appeal to toilet users, and they'll be the ones forking over the dough for these things.
LOL
Reminds me of a quippy antecdote I heard once: "A Canadian is just an unarmed American with health care."
Of course, you're all pretty much socialists up there anyway...
Looks like people are a bit afraid to answer you, with your personal experience with the subject and all. Here I go:
Her social and emotional well-being seem to be much healthier than my own.
Could be many other factors besides who raised you. Children are their own people, and some are actually (believe it or not) born with a tendency to be socially unhealthy. That's not to say that in that case it will always come to fruition, but there are definite tendencies.
I found that while I was on maternity leave, we were developing an unhealthy dependence on each other.
Where in the <expletive> did you get the idea that a child's dependence on his mother is unhealthy? I'm sick to death of people thinking that dependence in any form is a bad thing. It is if the child becomes an adult without becoming independent, but a newborn? Come on. They're built to be dependent, and you know it.
When I am home, I spend the vast majority of my free time interacting with her, but I think we're spending more quality time together now.
Quantity and quality is the key, not one or the other. Both must exist. The quality of time my wife spends with Emma (seven months old next week) has remained about the same, but since we got her a baby carrier (to free her hands while she's holding her), Emma's been much happier. No more quality, but much more quantity. It's absolutely amazing.
Since I'm homebody and somewhat asocial, I know she's getting much richer experience out of the house.
Does your child need experiences out of the house more than he needs you? Oh, wait, I forgot. You think that's unhealthy (see above).
I've also learned quite a bit from the people running the daycare that I may have had to discover the hard way.
Well good! Though, you might have learned that from your own parents and parents-in-law, or friends that already have children.
I'm hoping that when my daughter is old enough to start kindergarten, she will already have at least one friend in her class.
That's why you acquaint yourself with other parents and their children. But back to the benefit - isn't that a large price to pay? At least one friend vs. being raised by his own mother?
My decision to use daycare was not an abdication of parental responsibility. It's a personal decision where in my case, the pros outweighed the cons.
It seems like you believe that "abdication of parental responsibility" and "personal decision" are mutually exclusive. Let me assure you that they are not - in fact, every abdication of responsibility is also a personal decision. (By the way, I hate how people nowadays are using the words "personal decision" to validate everything and expecting people to applaud them for it.)
I don't think you made up the list of pros and cons and then made the decision. Most of those "pros" for day care are either not really pros, or you could have handled in a better way - such as actually getting yourself out of the house, learning from people who are already parents (or learning it yourself - gasp!), and getting to know the neighbors.
It's nice to come up with a list of pros and cons, but not after the fact. You had the child. Stop rationalizing, and raise him yourself if you have the means.
Daycare workers have degrees in Developmental Psychology, Early childhood education, etc. etc. etc. If anything, they're more qualified than YOU are to raise a kid.
Who really has an interest in the development of a child more than the child's parents? That's the best qualification there is. Also, a day care professional cannot possibly give every child the attention that a parent can.
And when the child grows up, has he learned to trust his parents? Well, it wasn't his parents who read him stories or taught him how life works. It wasn't his parents who showed him love and respect, and taught him how to share. And most likely, nobody taught him that there are consequences for his actions through discipline.
Your argument is typical of someone feeling guilty for not taking responsibility. It's called rationalizing. I've heard it many, many times. Guess what? Day care is not the best place for a young child to be, and young children do not need to learn social interaction skills that early, and certainly not from other children. How can you possibly expect a child to learn how to socially interact properly when they learn it mainly from other children?