I fail to see a justification in stealing something becuase you feel the price is too high. Only in this industry does that mode of thinking seem to carry any weight.
Well, in this industry the cost of duplication is zero. I'm not defending software "pirates", but I wish people would stop equating copying bits on a hard disk to theft of physical goods.
Private companies that do work for the government (Raytheon, Boeing, Northrup) will act more like government jobs, and conversely, government labs (Sandia National Labs, MIT Lincoln Labs, John's Hopkins Physics Lab) will act more like private companies.
This has been exactly my experience. I used to work at a large defense contractor where I came in late, took long lunches, and left early every day since there was nothing else to do. I was a just a body they could use to charge the government their ridiculous overhead rates. I was paid very well, but the price is severe brain atrophy.
I then took a job at a government lab. The work is interesting and challenging, the people I work with are motivated and take pride in their work, and the pay and benefits are pretty good too.
You can't paint jobs with a broad "public" or "private" brush.
According to Viant, a Boston-based market-research firm, 400,000 to 600,000 films are illegally downloaded from the Internet each day. "[These films] are innocents in a jungle, ready to be ambushed by anyone," says Jack Valenti
This from the man who makes fun of anyone who says "information wants to be free".
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I assume it would be over the equator; otherwise it wouldn't be in geostationary orbit.
The cry of "Save the Planet!!!" always makes me laugh.
The planet is doing just fine. It was doing fine before we got here and it will do fine even if we somehow are not here in the future.
I'm not saying humanity isn't damaging the biosphere, because I think we are, but "Save the Planet" oversimplifies to the point where it's nonsensical.
Developers workstations are *supposed* to be bigger better faster more than those of the plebes, and don't you forget it!:^)
Don't laugh, but I think the opposite is true. I do all of my development on a 600Mhz Pentium II, because if I can get my code to perform well on that box, it'll be that much faster on most machines in the "real world".
What about libraries that are doing all kinds of memory allocation behind the scenes? I'll be jiggered if I know what the hell XAlloc-this and XFree-that are doing.
Using valgrind, I've found several memory leaks in my code using the libX11 and the FreeType libraries that strictly were my fault, but were counterintuitive and I never would have found them solely reading the documentation and using print statements.
I'm thrilled to have a tool like valgrind on linux, finally. Thanks Julian!
Reading this document, it's even more unclear what the UCITA is supposed to do, since it reads like a list of apologies and situations where the UCITA doesn't apply.
Section 435. ACQUISITION OF LICENSEE'S CHILDREN
(a) Except as provided in subsection (b), the licensor is entitled to take any or all of the licensee's children and use them to pull the executive's carriage around town.
(b) Subsection (a) does not apply if the licensee has no children. In this event, surgery to remove licensee's duodenum will be performed and said duodenum will be discarded.
Several constitutional scholars have made the claim that either taking the licensee's children or performing invasive surgery might be construed as antithetical to the concept of "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness". Based on these discussions, the Committee recommends that section 435 not apply to licensees with one or more child or duodenum.
One can't experience the greatness of apt-get if they can't make it through the install
The first time I tried debian (I think this was Debian 1.3?), I got hopelessly confused by the installation and went back to redhat 4.2 and was much happier.
When 2.0 came out, I decided to give it another try, and struggled through the installation, and finally ended up with a nice system. But great as apt-get was, I felt it wasn't worth the pain.
Then I figured out the painless way to install debian: go through the installation and install the bare minimum that you absolutely need (this means no X!). Then once you've got that running, which is quick and easy, use apt for everything else you use. This has the side benefit that there's no wasted space on your drive.
Being someone who uses computer technology to benefit an industry that in many ways is actively working to stifle that same technology, do you feel you have some standing to show people with power in the movie industry that technology isn't something to be afraid of?
I don't think I'm going out on a limb by saying someone like Jack Valenti probably has more respect for you than he has for your typical Slashdot geek.:)
Mr. Anthony, can you pinpoint exactly when your excellent work changed from actually being good to utter crap?
I've read a couple of his series (fifteen years ago...) and I found that the first two or three books in any series are terrific, and then he just peters out and the remaining ones are terrible. I don't think it has to do with the age of the reader; I'm sure I'd enjoy re-reading "A Spell for Chameleon", or "Split Infinity". The man has good ideas, he just doesn't know when to quit.
Nobody's mentioned the "Cluster" series yet. The first two are good, and then skip the rest.
I live in Los Angeles, and cell phones have the same area codes as residential phones. If they're just dialing numbers, what tells them a particular number is a cell phone? Is there a list of prefixes that are reserved for cell phones?
I remember in third grade we were learning about temperatures, and my friend raised his hand and asked "what about when somebody says something is 35 degrees to the right? What does that mean?"
The teacher said "That's too complicated. You don't need to know that."
25 years later, I would wager most of the kids in that class still don't know what that means and don't care.
Every generation complains the kids are getting dumber, lazier, whatever. There will always be kids who are motivated and want to learn, and while using a PDA in class might slow them down, it won't stop them.
Even though less light gets into your eye during an eclipse, the surface brightness (brightness/unit area) of the sun that isn't covered up is the same as always. So your pupil dilates to let more light in, but that light is still bright enough to do permanent damage.
I'm always amazed at the flat-out bullshit that gets published as "research". I guess I shouldn't be, since it all sounds good to someone who doesn't know anything about anything.
Where are the "think tanks" that actually have people who can think critically?
I'm sure they've thought of this, but how much does the visible light from a star dim when there's a big sunspot? I'm sure it's more than one part in ten thousand.
Detection and response to the Broadcast Flag does not mean less functionality for video devices, including PCs that receive DTV. Rather it adds to these devices the ability to determine the difference between protected and unprotected works.
This pair of handcuffs does not mean less functionality for your hands. Rather it adds to your hands the ability to keep them where we can see them.
The current system in North America just doesn't work.
I've thought about this a lot, and it seems to me that the "right" thing to do is run yourself. Start small and work your way up to where you can make a difference.
So then I ask myself, why don't I run for office? I'm too lazy, and it's easier to put up with the crap being dealt me than it is to do something about it. Shameful but true.
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I fail to see a justification in stealing something becuase you feel the price is too high. Only in this industry does that mode of thinking seem to carry any weight.
Well, in this industry the cost of duplication is zero. I'm not defending software "pirates", but I wish people would stop equating copying bits on a hard disk to theft of physical goods.
Private companies that do work for the government (Raytheon, Boeing, Northrup) will act more like government jobs, and conversely, government labs (Sandia National Labs, MIT Lincoln Labs, John's Hopkins Physics Lab) will act more like private companies.
This has been exactly my experience. I used to work at a large defense contractor where I came in late, took long lunches, and left early every day since there was nothing else to do. I was a just a body they could use to charge the government their ridiculous overhead rates. I was paid very well, but the price is severe brain atrophy.
I then took a job at a government lab. The work is interesting and challenging, the people I work with are motivated and take pride in their work, and the pay and benefits are pretty good too.
You can't paint jobs with a broad "public" or "private" brush.
The article wasn't clear on how the air bag will apply pressure to the asteroid. Maybe a slow, controlled leak?
So what someone is stealing your stuff.
Then why bother putting your code under any kind of license at all?
The XVID guys used the GPL for a reason, and they should expect others to abide by it.
According to Viant, a Boston-based market-research firm, 400,000 to 600,000 films are illegally downloaded from the Internet each day. "[These films] are innocents in a jungle, ready to be ambushed by anyone," says Jack Valenti
This from the man who makes fun of anyone who says "information wants to be free".
I assume it would be over the equator; otherwise it wouldn't be in geostationary orbit.
For pities sake this is just plain sad. If there was one more hour in the day 60% of people would sit in front of a monitor ?
With apologies to Sideshow Bob:
"By the way, I'm aware of the irony of appearing on Slashdot in order to decry it. So don't bother pointing that out."
The cry of "Save the Planet!!!" always makes me laugh.
The planet is doing just fine. It was doing fine before we got here and it will do fine even if we somehow are not here in the future.
I'm not saying humanity isn't damaging the biosphere, because I think we are, but "Save the Planet" oversimplifies to the point where it's nonsensical.
Developers workstations are *supposed* to be bigger better faster more than those of the plebes, and don't you forget it!
Don't laugh, but I think the opposite is true. I do all of my development on a 600Mhz Pentium II, because if I can get my code to perform well on that box, it'll be that much faster on most machines in the "real world".
What about libraries that are doing all kinds of memory allocation behind the scenes? I'll be jiggered if I know what the hell XAlloc-this and XFree-that are doing.
Using valgrind, I've found several memory leaks in my code using the libX11 and the FreeType libraries that strictly were my fault, but were counterintuitive and I never would have found them solely reading the documentation and using print statements.
I'm thrilled to have a tool like valgrind on linux, finally. Thanks Julian!
Section 435. ACQUISITION OF LICENSEE'S CHILDREN
(a) Except as provided in subsection (b), the licensor is entitled to take any or all of the licensee's children and use them to pull the executive's carriage around town.
(b) Subsection (a) does not apply if the licensee has no children. In this event, surgery to remove licensee's duodenum will be performed and said duodenum will be discarded.
Several constitutional scholars have made the claim that either taking the licensee's children or performing invasive surgery might be construed as antithetical to the concept of "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness". Based on these discussions, the Committee recommends that section 435 not apply to licensees with one or more child or duodenum.
Somehow writing the bad guys a check and saying "in your face, man!" lacks the punch of imprisonment.
The best people to fight wealthy control freaks are wealthy activists. Consider ourselves lucky we have at least one.
One can't experience the greatness of apt-get if they can't make it through the install
The first time I tried debian (I think this was Debian 1.3?), I got hopelessly confused by the installation and went back to redhat 4.2 and was much happier.
When 2.0 came out, I decided to give it another try, and struggled through the installation, and finally ended up with a nice system. But great as apt-get was, I felt it wasn't worth the pain.
Then I figured out the painless way to install debian: go through the installation and install the bare minimum that you absolutely need (this means no X!). Then once you've got that running, which is quick and easy, use apt for everything else you use. This has the side benefit that there's no wasted space on your drive.
Being someone who uses computer technology to benefit an industry that in many ways is actively working to stifle that same technology, do you feel you have some standing to show people with power in the movie industry that technology isn't something to be afraid of?
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I don't think I'm going out on a limb by saying someone like Jack Valenti probably has more respect for you than he has for your typical Slashdot geek.
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Mr. Anthony, can you pinpoint exactly when your excellent work changed from actually being good to utter crap?
I've read a couple of his series (fifteen years ago
Nobody's mentioned the "Cluster" series yet. The first two are good, and then skip the rest.
I live in Los Angeles, and cell phones have the same area codes as residential phones. If they're just dialing numbers, what tells them a particular number is a cell phone? Is there a list of prefixes that are reserved for cell phones?
http://www.seds.org/~spider/spider/Vars/casA.html
At the age of 50, the elderly should be forced into retirement for 10 years, at which point they can be painlessly put to rest.
Aren't you the same guy who was afraid of dying of brain disease in the year 2075?
I remember in third grade we were learning about temperatures, and my friend raised his hand and asked "what about when somebody says something is 35 degrees to the right? What does that mean?"
The teacher said "That's too complicated. You don't need to know that."
25 years later, I would wager most of the kids in that class still don't know what that means and don't care.
Every generation complains the kids are getting dumber, lazier, whatever. There will always be kids who are motivated and want to learn, and while using a PDA in class might slow them down, it won't stop them.
Even though less light gets into your eye during an eclipse, the surface brightness (brightness/unit area) of the sun that isn't covered up is the same as always. So your pupil dilates to let more light in, but that light is still bright enough to do permanent damage.
I'm always amazed at the flat-out bullshit that gets published as "research". I guess I shouldn't be, since it all sounds good to someone who doesn't know anything about anything.
Where are the "think tanks" that actually have people who can think critically?
I'm sure they've thought of this, but how much does the visible light from a star dim when there's a big sunspot? I'm sure it's more than one part in ten thousand.
Detection and response to the Broadcast Flag does not mean less functionality for video devices, including PCs that receive DTV. Rather it adds to these devices the ability to determine the difference between protected and unprotected works.
This pair of handcuffs does not mean less functionality for your hands. Rather it adds to your hands the ability to keep them where we can see them.
The current system in North America just doesn't work.
I've thought about this a lot, and it seems to me that the "right" thing to do is run yourself. Start small and work your way up to where you can make a difference.
So then I ask myself, why don't I run for office? I'm too lazy, and it's easier to put up with the crap being dealt me than it is to do something about it. Shameful but true.