Sounds like a good way to get into bed too. The only way for the "bad guys" to get your password is to send a really hot girl over to your house. Ya know, this is probably the last hope for most./ readers.
I'm not sure you can even do that. AFAIK, the college owns any code you develop in conjuction with a class. That could be totally wrong and I can't verify it.
Furthermore, it would not protect you in the case you mentioned, because if you truly did own the code and had the right to license it GPL, then you could just as easily license it under the "Here's my code so you can complete your project, but don't tell anyone" license. The fact that *you* licenced it GPL, does not prevent *you* from licencing it in another way. It just prevents someone else from doing so.
Maybe now some young Computer Science student can spend more time on developing a good overall program, instead of spending a bunch of time writing simple things like their own sorting routine."
Noooo!!!! I don't know how many "groups" you've worked in at college level, but almost every group has one or two people that do the work and understand the material. The others don't have a clue or are freeloading. Even if I do understand the material, jumping into a group and only doing a portion of the work sets me up to not know part of the material very well come test time or when I'm working at a real job.
For large projects, working in groups makes sense in a couple of cases. First, the project is cool, but too large for one person to complete in the alloted time is a prime candidate for a group project. Second, group projects teache the group members to deal with the frustration of working on software with another person. (yeah, cheap shot...)
But please, oh please, don't make it a policy to allow group projects at every level. You'd think we didn't already have a job market saturated with poorly trained CS people.
Perhaps that provides some incentive to make your application run cross-platform? As always, business must stay agile to stay alive.
If your business runs into this situation a few years from now when Linux is an accepted market, you can kiss a large part of your market share goodbye and if you don't adapt, you'll just have to live with it.
Actually, why the heck am I explaining this to you? Your company loses business and mine gains business. Perfect.:o)
Dang, I've been using that account too long;o) Although I'm pretty sure they changed to the 2MB cap in the last year and half. Perhaps it was only 5MB before, but it was certainly larger than 2...
Account sizes started at 10 MB. Hotmail recently reduced them to 2 MB.
Hotmail constantly sends me reminders that I can get my 10MB of storage back by paying them a monthly fee. Great...
Those same reminders generally come as part of a message that says, in effect, "Your account is almost full. We'll send you another message to add to the total so you fill up even faster. By doing this, we can clearly demonstrate why you need a larger account. Pay us now.
I can get 500 messages from a single address with an identical subject and message body. Fun, now my account fills up even faster. (I sent suggestions on how to prevent this. The information was supposedly passed along to the dev team. Who knows...)
I can sign up for a new account and within hours, I'm receiving spam. Dang, now that's some added value, not to mention adding to the need for more storage.
Obvious bulk mail goes into my junk folder. Nice, except that my junk folder contributes to my total space used and isn't purged automagically if more space is needed. There isn't even an option to do this. (Sigh, I need more space again. Maybe they'll send me another advert so I can sign up..)
And more and more of my favorite things about hotmail. Isn't it just nifty?
Until you add in the part where the Anonymous Coward who submitted the news item was hired by the same biotech company who paid an editor at Globe and Mail to publish a story to scare the living crap out of their microbiologists.
But in reality, they are looking for ways to grow single organs
Of course, but that does away with the need for full scale cloning for organ transplant. So what really is the purpose? Just because we can? Sorry, I'm too cynical to buy that one.
Let's say, for instance, that someone wanted to produce an army of blond haired blue eyed men to take over the world... Now, the biggest problem is getting the army built and to do that, children must be born. That could take a long time if you just used the population of one country (ie, the country struggling for dominance). But now let's suppose that you could offer to feed the women of an impoverished country if they agreed to carry a baby for nine months. Poof, population explosion.
Or, let's say that the wealthy would like clones made of themselves and then when the clone reached a certain age, say 25, they would be killed and their bodies harvest for doner organs. By your own admission, these clones are real functioning people, but they could be in a situation where they are raised like cattle rather than like people. Don't believe me? Consider this, money talks, period.
And the possible scenerios go on and on...
Of course, it will probably happen and we can only hope that some kind of equal rights law gets passed someday, but even that probably won't prevent discrimination.
But understand that the video idea is much simpler to pass. By piggybacking the.prn issue onto the same bill, they might actually get the.prn issue through into law. Pretty common tactic, I think...
They are going to do VB with SQL Server or local Jet databases, and there's nothing in the *nix world that can compete with that combo in time-to-first-pay-cheque. That's a combination of a lot of different factors (including market size) that do not exist in the *nix world.
Dunno about that... Python, Qt 3.0, and MySQL have a pretty good shot and overthrowing the RAD power of VB. Qt 3 now supports data aware widgets which allow you to tie a DB in a similar way that VB allows. And Python just kicks VB's butt as a language. Qt Designer has some pretty cool stuff like signal/slots, superior layout control, etc that give the form builder in VB a run for its money...
I seriously considered porting a program I developed to curses because sometimes a text interface is just faster, but now it looks like I don't need to. Very cool:)
Erm... We're both talking about a user agent value right? So, it's just parsed as text, right? So it really doesn't give a damn if I'm using Konqueror or I'm using Opera if the user agent string is the same, right? So if it picks up Mozilla 5.0 from your user agent string and does not allow you in, it should do the same to me, right? So what are you talking about anyway? It's clearly not Mozilla 5.0 in the string that's triggering the failed entry.
I didn't say it wasn't insane;o) But Intel is probably making a case for the idea that the Yoga place gets instant brand name recognition as being modern, sophisticated, innovative, etc. Perhaps Intel is not all those things, but the general market believes it and that's how they've built their brand name. For a Yoga place to be able to leverage off that, however subconcious, is the issue Intel is driving at. And yes, it's crazy.
What are you going to do? Claim that you allowed someone else to share your bandwidth, clearly breaking typical service agreements? Might you also mention that you were even making money by doing so? Hrm, guess that's better than going to jail, but at that pointed you're kinda stuck...
Because they are an obvious parody of the original and therefore not easily confused with the original. Seems like I remember something about parody sites being protected...
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Sounds like a good way to get into bed too. The only way for the "bad guys" to get your password is to send a really hot girl over to your house. Ya know, this is probably the last hope for most ./ readers.
I'm not sure you can even do that. AFAIK, the college owns any code you develop in conjuction with a class. That could be totally wrong and I can't verify it.
Furthermore, it would not protect you in the case you mentioned, because if you truly did own the code and had the right to license it GPL, then you could just as easily license it under the "Here's my code so you can complete your project, but don't tell anyone" license. The fact that *you* licenced it GPL, does not prevent *you* from licencing it in another way. It just prevents someone else from doing so.
Maybe now some young Computer Science student can spend more time on developing a good overall program, instead of spending a bunch of time writing simple things like their own sorting routine."
Noooo!!!! I don't know how many "groups" you've worked in at college level, but almost every group has one or two people that do the work and understand the material. The others don't have a clue or are freeloading. Even if I do understand the material, jumping into a group and only doing a portion of the work sets me up to not know part of the material very well come test time or when I'm working at a real job.
For large projects, working in groups makes sense in a couple of cases. First, the project is cool, but too large for one person to complete in the alloted time is a prime candidate for a group project. Second, group projects teache the group members to deal with the frustration of working on software with another person. (yeah, cheap shot...)
But please, oh please, don't make it a policy to allow group projects at every level. You'd think we didn't already have a job market saturated with poorly trained CS people.
Perhaps that provides some incentive to make your application run cross-platform? As always, business must stay agile to stay alive.
:o)
If your business runs into this situation a few years from now when Linux is an accepted market, you can kiss a large part of your market share goodbye and if you don't adapt, you'll just have to live with it.
Actually, why the heck am I explaining this to you? Your company loses business and mine gains business. Perfect.
Just one thing, Brick walls are death to wireless ;o)
Dang, I've been using that account too long ;o) Although I'm pretty sure they changed to the 2MB cap in the last year and half. Perhaps it was only 5MB before, but it was certainly larger than 2...
Nope, I just get a kick out of all of the offers for free porn and huge home mortgages on my apartment ;o)
- Account sizes started at 10 MB. Hotmail recently reduced them to 2 MB.
- Hotmail constantly sends me reminders that I can get my 10MB of storage back by paying them a monthly fee. Great...
- Those same reminders generally come as part of a message that says, in effect, "Your account is almost full. We'll send you another message to add to the total so you fill up even faster. By doing this, we can clearly demonstrate why you need a larger account. Pay us now.
- I can get 500 messages from a single address with an identical subject and message body. Fun, now my account fills up even faster. (I sent suggestions on how to prevent this. The information was supposedly passed along to the dev team. Who knows...)
- I can sign up for a new account and within hours, I'm receiving spam. Dang, now that's some added value, not to mention adding to the need for more storage.
- Obvious bulk mail goes into my junk folder. Nice, except that my junk folder contributes to my total space used and isn't purged automagically if more space is needed. There isn't even an option to do this. (Sigh, I need more space again. Maybe they'll send me another advert so I can sign up..)
- And more and more of my favorite things about hotmail. Isn't it just nifty?
arg!!!!Until you add in the part where the Anonymous Coward who submitted the news item was hired by the same biotech company who paid an editor at Globe and Mail to publish a story to scare the living crap out of their microbiologists.
Ahhhh, the simplicity of safe-guarding IP.
But in reality, they are looking for ways to grow single organs
Of course, but that does away with the need for full scale cloning for organ transplant. So what really is the purpose? Just because we can? Sorry, I'm too cynical to buy that one.
I've already scratched one eye out and I'm running a 600 Mhz. JBuilder (Java IDE) eats a machine alive...
Let's say, for instance, that someone wanted to produce an army of blond haired blue eyed men to take over the world... Now, the biggest problem is getting the army built and to do that, children must be born. That could take a long time if you just used the population of one country (ie, the country struggling for dominance). But now let's suppose that you could offer to feed the women of an impoverished country if they agreed to carry a baby for nine months. Poof, population explosion.
Or, let's say that the wealthy would like clones made of themselves and then when the clone reached a certain age, say 25, they would be killed and their bodies harvest for doner organs. By your own admission, these clones are real functioning people, but they could be in a situation where they are raised like cattle rather than like people. Don't believe me? Consider this, money talks, period.
And the possible scenerios go on and on...
Of course, it will probably happen and we can only hope that some kind of equal rights law gets passed someday, but even that probably won't prevent discrimination.
Why can't we just work with what we got?
;o)
Have you taken a look around....
ah, never mind
But understand that the video idea is much simpler to pass. By piggybacking the .prn issue onto the same bill, they might actually get the .prn issue through into law. Pretty common tactic, I think...
They are going to do VB with SQL Server or local Jet databases, and there's nothing in the *nix world that can compete with that combo in time-to-first-pay-cheque. That's a combination of a lot of different factors (including market size) that do not exist in the *nix world.
Dunno about that... Python, Qt 3.0, and MySQL have a pretty good shot and overthrowing the RAD power of VB. Qt 3 now supports data aware widgets which allow you to tie a DB in a similar way that VB allows. And Python just kicks VB's butt as a language. Qt Designer has some pretty cool stuff like signal/slots, superior layout control, etc that give the form builder in VB a run for its money...
Yup, read the article. 4 of the 10 are internal.
I seriously considered porting a program I developed to curses because sometimes a text interface is just faster, but now it looks like I don't need to. Very cool :)
Erm... We're both talking about a user agent value right? So, it's just parsed as text, right? So it really doesn't give a damn if I'm using Konqueror or I'm using Opera if the user agent string is the same, right? So if it picks up Mozilla 5.0 from your user agent string and does not allow you in, it should do the same to me, right? So what are you talking about anyway? It's clearly not Mozilla 5.0 in the string that's triggering the failed entry.
Not true. Identifying as Mozilla 5.0 works fine with Konqueror
Dunno what all the crap about browser problems is, but I'm getting in, and have been getting in, just fine with Konqueror 2.2.1.
User Agent String: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/2.2.1; Linux; en_US, en)
So, what's up? Does Mozilla send something radically different?
Dunno what browser you guys are using, but Konqi works fine..
Erm, Konqi works just peachy....
I didn't say it wasn't insane ;o) But Intel is probably making a case for the idea that the Yoga place gets instant brand name recognition as being modern, sophisticated, innovative, etc. Perhaps Intel is not all those things, but the general market believes it and that's how they've built their brand name. For a Yoga place to be able to leverage off that, however subconcious, is the issue Intel is driving at. And yes, it's crazy.
What are you going to do? Claim that you allowed someone else to share your bandwidth, clearly breaking typical service agreements? Might you also mention that you were even making money by doing so? Hrm, guess that's better than going to jail, but at that pointed you're kinda stuck...
Because they are an obvious parody of the original and therefore not easily confused with the original. Seems like I remember something about parody sites being protected...