and the canadian court system already informed the CRIA (canadian RIAA) that they can take their ideas to sue and stick them where the sun don't shine, so this isn't gonna change that in a hurry.
That earlier court ruling was presumably based on the notion that the recording levy is paid by users of all the common music media, including MP3 players. The judge said in effect that the levy law doesn't state that the recording needs to come from a 'legitimate' source, just that the consumer has already paid the levy for the media where the recordings are stored. I think that the new ruling will dilute the force of the earlier ruling.
I would expect that House of Commons to simply rubber-stamp the Copyright Act changes, but that will take months or years.
As much as I respect profs who are willing to push you to do neat things (finding 44 holes in UNIX and it's standard set of programs is nothing to sneeze at), if you really do fail the class I'd take this straight to the administration. They're letting you down by allowing a professor to fail an entire class, especially since the grades are based on something that doesn't really reflect your understanding of the subject.
They could point out that the new guy on a construction site usually doesn't get fired for not being able to find any plaid paint.
Object code is not human readable, therefore it is better thought of as a device than as a form of expression, therefore, prima facie, it should not be copyrightable (IMHO, IANAL, SMC, HAND).
Mechanical translations of a copyrighted work are copyrightable and should be. Suppose that I take any copyrighted digitized work and encrypt it. It is a mechanical translation that is no longer meaningful to humans and therefore loses its copyright. Now I unencrypt it and I have a perfect uncopyrighted copy of what I started with and I can do anything I want with it. Brilliant.
but if it intends to remove copyright protection from source code then I think it is a travesty.
All you have to do is say that your company produces poetry instead of software, and copyright your source code and all mechanical translations as poetry.
So, for all of you globalists out there who saw the consolidation of Europe into a single entity as a good thing, it looks like you're reaping what you've sown.
And what if a state/province/county doesn't agree with federal laws? My God, the horror! The horror!
Here you can see my bias too; I hate Bush and his Talibans of the US (so now Bush is giving federal funding for faith-based programs? Wow), and when I see an article criticizing the UN written by a Bush-ideology-supporter, I claim "she's biased", whereas when I read an article about the Bush and Bin Laden connection, I eat it without scepticism.
Wow, an intellectually-honest Lefty. Rarer than hen's teeth, I tells ya!
he says freedom but how long will the Iraqis now suffer from political, economical and security chaos?
Whereas pacifist ideals would have given us a definite answer: FOREVER.
How about democracy in the homeland, yeah, people who try to say different things get ignored or forcibly silenced (removing them from their government post, harassing them), etc, etc.
Now this seems more like the more familiar Lefty mathematics, based on the axiom that 1 == 1000000. If one country is bad to the degree of 1000000 and the US is bad to the degree of 1, then both countries are equally as bad. For the record, I'm a Centrist.
Don't compare the UN to wall street, compare it to the US govt. or any govt for that matter. Suddenly it doesn't quite so bad.
A distinguishing characteristic between the two organizations is that the US Government is actually accountable. Come November, the people of America will decide if they want to keep Bush or not.
Here is some interesting reading. Just Google for it. It's funny how you don't hear much about this on the nightly news. If it's not bad enough that the UN is a sprawling bureaucracy that burns through billions of dollars a year and can always be counted on to sit on its ass while tens of millions of civilians are murdered by their own governments, it still maintains a petina of legitimacy among those who like to maintain their comfortable illusions. Just listen to how dogmatically its apologists defend it. "It must be good... because it must be." It's only real contribution to the world is to provide a meeting place for representatives from around the world to talk. But surely a tables and chairs can be had for less than the UN's annual budget.
Boy, it's obvious the UN isn't in the pocket of the Big Corporations, yessiree!
No, the UN is worse. It's $10-billion oil-for-food scandal makes Wall Street accounting foibles look like kiddy play. This follows directly from Bruce's Law: All unaccountable organizations are corrupt.
I can see it now, on the first day of class. "Okay Class, your whole grade for the semester is to write an operating system from scratch."
As is mentioned elsewhere, this is done in the CS452 course at the University of Waterloo, and that is the easy half of the course. The real-time-control half is significantly harder and more time-consuming.
We can conspire about why he's so driven to his (repeatedly refuted) belief that Linus couldn't have written Linux without ripping someone else's code off all day, but the fact remains that KB's own consultants have contradicted him!
I used to be a TA for CS452 Real-Time Programming course at the University of Waterloo. The assignments for that course came in two parts: (1) design and implement your own real-time multitasking kernel, and (2) use it to design and implement a real-time control system for either a robot arm or a model train.
The students had about a month and a half to complete the first part, which was broken into four assignments. The kernels had a microkernel architecture, but I don't think that really alters the development time that much. (The message passing was highly synchronous, which helps to limit the mind-boggling complexity of debugging a distributed program, which Dr. Tanenbaum doesn't seem to discuss.)
They worked in teams of two, but when I took the course, my lab partner conked out on me, so I ended writing the kernel myself, but that was okay since I had written multitasking kernels twice before, one in MACHINE LANGUAGE (no, not that wimpy symbolic-assembler stuff!) for a Commodore-128.
So, it's quite do-able for a motivated student to write a relatively simple kernel in the amount of time that Linus took. Just ask the CS452 students--they had to build their kernels in just six weeks, plus they had other courses and limited resources in the lab.
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and the canadian court system already informed the CRIA (canadian RIAA) that they can take their ideas to sue and stick them where the sun don't shine, so this isn't gonna change that in a hurry.
That earlier court ruling was presumably based on the notion that the recording levy is paid by users of all the common music media, including MP3 players. The judge said in effect that the levy law doesn't state that the recording needs to come from a 'legitimate' source, just that the consumer has already paid the levy for the media where the recordings are stored. I think that the new ruling will dilute the force of the earlier ruling.
I would expect that House of Commons to simply rubber-stamp the Copyright Act changes, but that will take months or years.
They have a website that they've collected $80 million over that past 5 years and distributed $30 million of it.
That sounds rather scandalous. Why haven't they distributed ALL of it?!
Did you see the episode of Lexx where they blew up the CRTC (and the rest of Ottawa)?
CRTC: "Protecting Canadians from themselves"
(I think that the producers of Lexx had some run-ins with the CRTC.)
I should have said, "What kind of free country allows unelected people to impose taxes?".
What country is Microsoft from?
(give me 15% flat tax anytime)
This will never happen because then poor people would have to pay their fair share, and they very much wouldn't like that.
Fry: "Poor people get all the breaks!"
However, the canadian music industry feels they "deserve" more money.
I wonder how many millions of dollars the Canadian music industry and artists have taken in for people copying Britney's songs.
the CRTC (Canadian Radio and Television Commission)
Close, but CRTC actually means "Canadian Roadblock to Telecommunications Competition".
Those silly, silly cavemen! They dumped all of that CO2 into the air and look what it got them! When will we ever learn?
As much as I respect profs who are willing to push you to do neat things (finding 44 holes in UNIX and it's standard set of programs is nothing to sneeze at), if you really do fail the class I'd take this straight to the administration. They're letting you down by allowing a professor to fail an entire class, especially since the grades are based on something that doesn't really reflect your understanding of the subject.
They could point out that the new guy on a construction site usually doesn't get fired for not being able to find any plaid paint.
"Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated." -- MC Reed
Sometimes, "context" can be more telling than just the face. Brittany's are way bigger, IMHO.
Yeah, but Jessica's are real.
Object code is not human readable, therefore it is better thought of as a device than as a form of expression, therefore, prima facie, it should not be copyrightable (IMHO, IANAL, SMC, HAND).
Mechanical translations of a copyrighted work are copyrightable and should be. Suppose that I take any copyrighted digitized work and encrypt it. It is a mechanical translation that is no longer meaningful to humans and therefore loses its copyright. Now I unencrypt it and I have a perfect uncopyrighted copy of what I started with and I can do anything I want with it. Brilliant.
but if it intends to remove copyright protection from source code then I think it is a travesty.
All you have to do is say that your company produces poetry instead of software, and copyright your source code and all mechanical translations as poetry.
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20 DID KUBLA KHAN
So, for all of you globalists out there who saw the consolidation of Europe into a single entity as a good thing, it looks like you're reaping what you've sown.
And what if a state/province/county doesn't agree with federal laws? My God, the horror! The horror!
It's a big resume booster for the maintainers.
"Macroeconomic cost of personal projects to world GDP: $1.25-billion."
Yeah, that'll look really great on a person's resume.
Rev. Dr. C.S. Bruce, BSc(CS), MSc(SC), PhD[CS], MBA, PhD[Psyc], PhD[Theol]
Do they have fake military accreditations? I'd love to get a "Arm-ch. Gen." title.
Well, I for one think spiffing up the old resume with fake Internet accreditations is a great idea!
-- Rev. Dr. C.S. Bruce, BSc(CS), MSc(SC), PhD[CS], MBA, PhD[Psyc], PhD[Theol]
because I expect that where Redmond, WA is, the map shows a giant lake. :)
I would expect a giant glass-lined crater.
Here you can see my bias too; I hate Bush and his Talibans of the US (so now Bush is giving federal funding for faith-based programs? Wow), and when I see an article criticizing the UN written by a Bush-ideology-supporter, I claim "she's biased", whereas when I read an article about the Bush and Bin Laden connection, I eat it without scepticism.
Wow, an intellectually-honest Lefty. Rarer than hen's teeth, I tells ya!
he says freedom but how long will the Iraqis now suffer from political, economical and security chaos?
Whereas pacifist ideals would have given us a definite answer: FOREVER.
How about democracy in the homeland, yeah, people who try to say different things get ignored or forcibly silenced (removing them from their government post, harassing them), etc, etc.
Now this seems more like the more familiar Lefty mathematics, based on the axiom that 1 == 1000000. If one country is bad to the degree of 1000000 and the US is bad to the degree of 1, then both countries are equally as bad. For the record, I'm a Centrist.
Don't compare the UN to wall street, compare it to the US govt. or any govt for that matter. Suddenly it doesn't quite so bad.
A distinguishing characteristic between the two organizations is that the US Government is actually accountable. Come November, the people of America will decide if they want to keep Bush or not.
It's $10-billion oil-for-food scandal makes Wall Street accounting foibles look like kiddy play.
Correction: $111-billion.
Here is some interesting reading. Just Google for it. It's funny how you don't hear much about this on the nightly news. If it's not bad enough that the UN is a sprawling bureaucracy that burns through billions of dollars a year and can always be counted on to sit on its ass while tens of millions of civilians are murdered by their own governments, it still maintains a petina of legitimacy among those who like to maintain their comfortable illusions. Just listen to how dogmatically its apologists defend it. "It must be good... because it must be." It's only real contribution to the world is to provide a meeting place for representatives from around the world to talk. But surely a tables and chairs can be had for less than the UN's annual budget.
Boy, it's obvious the UN isn't in the pocket of the Big Corporations, yessiree!
No, the UN is worse. It's $10-billion oil-for-food scandal makes Wall Street accounting foibles look like kiddy play. This follows directly from Bruce's Law: All unaccountable organizations are corrupt.
I can see it now, on the first day of class. "Okay Class, your whole grade for the semester is to write an operating system from scratch."
As is mentioned elsewhere, this is done in the CS452 course at the University of Waterloo, and that is the easy half of the course. The real-time-control half is significantly harder and more time-consuming.
"All hope abandon ye who enter here."
We can conspire about why he's so driven to his (repeatedly refuted) belief that Linus couldn't have written Linux without ripping someone else's code off all day, but the fact remains that KB's own consultants have contradicted him!
I used to be a TA for CS452 Real-Time Programming course at the University of Waterloo. The assignments for that course came in two parts: (1) design and implement your own real-time multitasking kernel, and (2) use it to design and implement a real-time control system for either a robot arm or a model train.
The students had about a month and a half to complete the first part, which was broken into four assignments. The kernels had a microkernel architecture, but I don't think that really alters the development time that much. (The message passing was highly synchronous, which helps to limit the mind-boggling complexity of debugging a distributed program, which Dr. Tanenbaum doesn't seem to discuss.)
They worked in teams of two, but when I took the course, my lab partner conked out on me, so I ended writing the kernel myself, but that was okay since I had written multitasking kernels twice before, one in MACHINE LANGUAGE (no, not that wimpy symbolic-assembler stuff!) for a Commodore-128.
So, it's quite do-able for a motivated student to write a relatively simple kernel in the amount of time that Linus took. Just ask the CS452 students--they had to build their kernels in just six weeks, plus they had other courses and limited resources in the lab.