Re:A matter of philosophy
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I called our CIS dept chair to ask about the OS class. I wondered if PSU might use the linux kernel to study from, or if we would be coding our own. "Oh we don't write code, we study existing operating systems...the differences between Win9x, and WinNT, and how to administer both in a modern integrated(sic) enviornment." Computer Graphics isn't even offered as an elective. No one could teach it as a readings class, either.
Re:MIS can = Masters in Information Science
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I thought that MIS was a degree: Management Information Science...hence would could BS MIS, or MS MIS...yes? At PSU we don't have a school of CS, we have a Business School that offers CIS, IS, and MBA.
So does this mean that MS could add encryption to their file formats so that only Office can open an Office generated file? What could KWord do? Imagine an office whose documents are all viewable but only with the software MS will let them use to view them...try running a perl script on *that*...
DVD and harddisks are the tip of the iceberg. Project this forward and ask: what if computers were leased instead of sold? What if you were in violation of federal law if you used the equipment in a manner inconsistent with their lease? It could get ugly in the future. Freedom in the next century might be based on equipment of this next dedade alone. Oh wait...not DVDs, those already are not really your property after you've bought them.
Ouch. Sometimes playing devil's advocate hurts more than others.
The word "offended" is where you lose it. No one is saying "this is offensive, get rid of it." They are saying, "this material is harmful." Whether it is is debatable. But to take a "hazzard" arguement and reply in terms of "offensiveness" is by definition a "straw man arguement".
Re:Remember what Germany did with MS...
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So the obvious answer is for Napster to block all incoming connections originating from Germany. If someone bypasses this protection its not Napsters fault. Can't police what I want to share with you. Can eliminate the squeaky wheel.
Re:Black people have a REASON to be proud.
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In terms of the median, he is correct. Whats amazing is that there there is a larger percentage of the black population above middle class than there are of the white population. What is perhaps missing from the anaylsis is that the teany tiny percentage (7%?) of white people at the top own half of everything here. In terms of making it to upper middle class, blacks are doing better than whites. The class ceiling is making it into the elites.:-)
Re:Playing devil's advocate here...
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The truest white racism is the attitude coming from the liberal establishment that says that minorities shouldn't have to meet the same strict requirements that whites do for things like school and employment.
It cut both ways.
Until they did away with racially categorized SAT scores, "whites" could get in to the University of California with lower scores than could "asians". It was based on scoring each race seperately. The "average" white score was lower than an "average" asian score. To get in one had to score above average. Hence with the same scores a white person would be doing "really good for a white person", but the asian would be "below average for an asian".
I don't see any way that this is a dangerous turn of events. It is an attack on our model. What was once open (thank BugTraq)is now going to much less open. The free flow of information is stiffled. I question whether this is to drive traffic or or to drive BugTraq into the ground. This turn of events is a chipping away...one little chip is not so dangerous...but does make us less than we once were.
My big question is whether or not this will hurt companies that plan to use.ogg files.
Thats exactly the plan:
"We doubt very much that they are not using Fraunhofer and Thomson intellectual property," Linde said. "We think it is likely they are infringing."
Whether this is true, analysts say Thomson and the German company are likely to file patent lawsuits the moment Vorbis appears to be a viable market candidate. By creating a perception of uncertainty around Vorbis' future, MP3's parents could prevent conservative digital music companies from adopting it.
"If you're going to go into a marketplace where people play hardball, that's what hardball looks like," Scheirer warned.
Whatever it looks like, I know what it smells like.
Since advisories are often changed when new details emerge (e.g. errors in patch, discovery of new variations that work around patch, etc) and you can't edit an existing post or e-mail, they'll point you to their own site which they can update as needed. Combined with disallowing propagation, then they should reduce the risk of admins finding obsolete reports...
Which must needs be ballanced against:
Microsoft prefers spin control to efficient distribution in distributing bug reports.
and so a news service should be created to track the changes...posting discrepencies where appropriate...indicating which fall into the benign category and which are less benign.
It wouldn't be illegal for a 'bot to track web site changes, and only flag a human when necessary to interpret the difference, would it? The story to post then would be the significance of the change. Is it legal to(privately) mirror just the changes? Would could then recreate the original by subtracting those changes...
Could this maybe be done as a school project (and thus gain some copyright protection under "fair use" for research)?
If "records" and thus history are being rewritten, could copyright stop a researcher from publishing?
Moral panic is something America has experienced time and again throughout our history, but it seems to be at a heightened level lately.
The extreme level is exactly what concerns me. I am going to school in S.E. Kansas. I know people personally who feel that theories of evolution are immoral; the internet is literally the devil's spawning ground; & some groups of people here won't own T.V.s because of fear of cultural contamination
To make my previous post more clear: the authors of the content retain their copyrights for the material they provide me. I am providing a "container" for their material, animations, a MathLink-ed shell to interface with Mathematica in our computer lab, and a simple quiz module. Once GPL-ed the Chemistry dept, for instance, could pour their copyrighted material into it and tweak it. Making the source available doesn't impede the sell of the CD. My part is *free* but not much good without the copyrighted content which is owned by Professors in the department.
If you walk up to your employer, right now, and handed them this "contract" and asked them to sign it, they probably won't.
Obviously the time to negociate is prior to signing the contract. Why would anyone agree to give up something afterwards unless they are recieving something in return? About the only thing you have to offer at this point is your continued employement. It *is* about retaining you, *if* you wait until you are hired to introduce a condition into your employement contract.
The only way this could be done cleanly, after the fact, would be if the original agreement didn't mention IP at all (or mentioned it in a matter that obviously wouldn't apply).
> If this is about code written on company time, I can't see how it can be justified that the developer owns the IP.
>>This logically makes sence; however, there are a few instances
As others have said, it all depends on what is being paid for as specified by the contract governing the relationship. There can be no "logically this is fair" one way or the other. My department at school wants to develop CD based textbooks for the GE classes that we teach. I'm willing to provide a framework for their material as long as I can GPL my work. Take it or find somebody else. I'm working on their time, for them, but if they want it done I control the IP for my contribution and its GPL-ed. The only controversy would be if I wanted to get physics elective credit. Then my department is no longer the entity with which I must negotiate. (I believe I would need to talk to the Dean of Arts and Sciences...)
I've promised myself an 80 Gig HD for Xmas. Am thinking to install Be then because *everyone* I know who has used it *loves* it. I don't really have the headroom to be dualbooting now (but I squeak by installing/uninstalling depending on my tasks). You make a good point that BeOS should have been included in the compare/contrast article.
I don't think you read the article.
My take on it was roughly:
Start Menus: same
Taskbar: MS
Virtual Desktops: Linux
Control Panels: same
File Management: MS catches up
Update Utilities: MS catches up
Personally, I run W2000 (supplemented with Cygwin's GNU tools) and SuSE at home. We use NT4 and IRIX in my physics dept at school. I would agree with the author that the major drawback to windows' GUI is the lack of virtual desktops, but add responsiveness to the list. Linux is like an old MGB roadster. Click -> pop: you're there. Instant feedback.
In terms of stability: I've had W2000 crash and selfcycle into a reboot almost every day. I upgraded from W95 and W2000 seems much more stable than W95 was. I've yet to see anything requiring a manual powerdown to reboot.
A distrubing problem with w2000 involved the start menu losing folders. I could see them in (File)Explorer...but they weren't there on the start menu, or after opening "start" and using the folder-style file management. I could click on a folder in Explorer and it would open as a folder. Clicking on the uparrow to traverse upwards to Programs...and it'd be there, but another one dropped out (as though to make room for it). From the folder view I could manually insert the rest of the URL of a missing folder and it would open up. With explorer open to Programs, and the folder opened to Programs from the Start button, I dragged the missing folders from explorer to *the same location* open as a folder. It seems to have worked.
Summary: the article doesn't say windows wins on GUI. You probably didn't read it. W2000 is way more stable than W95. Linux is way more stable than W2000. Linux, for me, is a much better enviornment to get things done, as virtual desktops are truely effective, and speed matters. The hourglass breaks my train of thought.
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I called our CIS dept chair to ask about the OS class. I wondered if PSU might use the linux kernel to study from, or if we would be coding our own. "Oh we don't write code, we study existing operating systems...the differences between Win9x, and WinNT, and how to administer both in a modern integrated(sic) enviornment." Computer Graphics isn't even offered as an elective. No one could teach it as a readings class, either.
I thought that MIS was a degree: Management Information Science...hence would could BS MIS, or MS MIS...yes? At PSU we don't have a school of CS, we have a Business School that offers CIS, IS, and MBA.
"Torvalds says he is trying to roll out the next major Linux release, version 2.4, by this fall."
Methinks that is not a release date.
So does this mean that MS could add encryption to their file formats so that only Office can open an Office generated file? What could KWord do? Imagine an office whose documents are all viewable but only with the software MS will let them use to view them...try running a perl script on *that*...
DVD and harddisks are the tip of the iceberg. Project this forward and ask: what if computers were leased instead of sold? What if you were in violation of federal law if you used the equipment in a manner inconsistent with their lease? It could get ugly in the future. Freedom in the next century might be based on equipment of this next dedade alone. Oh wait...not DVDs, those already are not really your property after you've bought them.
His comment was that his advisor suggested LaTeX had a one document learning curve, not TeX. TeX is a display markup language, yes. LaTeX is not.
Ouch. Sometimes playing devil's advocate hurts more than others.
The word "offended" is where you lose it. No one is saying "this is offensive, get rid of it." They are saying, "this material is harmful." Whether it is is debatable. But to take a "hazzard" arguement and reply in terms of "offensiveness" is by definition a "straw man arguement".
So the obvious answer is for Napster to block all incoming connections originating from Germany. If someone bypasses this protection its not Napsters fault. Can't police what I want to share with you. Can eliminate the squeaky wheel.
In terms of the median, he is correct. Whats amazing is that there there is a larger percentage of the black population above middle class than there are of the white population. What is perhaps missing from the anaylsis is that the teany tiny percentage (7%?) of white people at the top own half of everything here. In terms of making it to upper middle class, blacks are doing better than whites. The class ceiling is making it into the elites. :-)
The truest white racism is the attitude coming from the liberal establishment that says that minorities shouldn't have to meet the same strict requirements that whites do for things like school and employment.
It cut both ways.
Until they did away with racially categorized SAT scores, "whites" could get in to the University of California with lower scores than could "asians". It was based on scoring each race seperately. The "average" white score was lower than an "average" asian score. To get in one had to score above average. Hence with the same scores a white person would be doing "really good for a white person", but the asian would be "below average for an asian".
I don't see any way that this is a dangerous turn of events.
It is an attack on our model. What was once open (thank BugTraq)is now going to much less open. The free flow of information is stiffled. I question whether this is to drive traffic or or to drive BugTraq into the ground.
This turn of events is a chipping away...one little chip is not so dangerous...but does make us less than we once were.
It wouldn't be hard. It wouldn't be legal. 'nuf said.
LOL
Recursion is its own reward!
A different default...I sense a contradiction.
I read both your post and the response and it still seems less than precise to suggest that "default" can have plurality about it...
My big question is whether or not this will hurt companies that plan to use .ogg files.
Thats exactly the plan:
"We doubt very much that they are not using Fraunhofer and Thomson intellectual property," Linde said. "We think it is likely they are infringing." Whether this is true, analysts say Thomson and the German company are likely to file patent lawsuits the moment Vorbis appears to be a viable market candidate. By creating a perception of uncertainty around Vorbis' future, MP3's parents could prevent conservative digital music companies from adopting it. "If you're going to go into a marketplace where people play hardball, that's what hardball looks like," Scheirer warned.
Whatever it looks like, I know what it smells like.
Since advisories are often changed when new details emerge (e.g. errors in patch, discovery of new variations that work around patch, etc) and you can't edit an existing post or e-mail, they'll point you to their own site which they can update as needed. Combined with disallowing propagation, then they should reduce the risk of admins finding obsolete reports...
Which must needs be ballanced against:
Microsoft prefers spin control to efficient distribution in distributing bug reports.
and so a news service should be created to track the changes...posting discrepencies where appropriate...indicating which fall into the benign category and which are less benign.
Wouldn't that be a full-time job for someone?
It wouldn't be illegal for a 'bot to track web site changes, and only flag a human when necessary to interpret the difference, would it? The story to post then would be the significance of the change. Is it legal to(privately) mirror just the changes? Would could then recreate the original by subtracting those changes...
Could this maybe be done as a school project (and thus gain some copyright protection under "fair use" for research)?
If "records" and thus history are being rewritten, could copyright stop a researcher from publishing?
Moral panic is something America has experienced time and again throughout our history, but it seems to be at a heightened level lately.
The extreme level is exactly what concerns me. I am going to school in S.E. Kansas. I know people personally who feel that theories of evolution are immoral; the internet is literally the devil's spawning ground; & some groups of people here won't own T.V.s because of fear of cultural contamination
TechExplorer explorer also provides the beginnings of MathML support. Waiting for MathML is pretty much why I haven't learned LaTex.
To make my previous post more clear: the authors of the content retain their copyrights for the material they provide me. I am providing a "container" for their material, animations, a MathLink-ed shell to interface with Mathematica in our computer lab, and a simple quiz module. Once GPL-ed the Chemistry dept, for instance, could pour their copyrighted material into it and tweak it. Making the source available doesn't impede the sell of the CD. My part is *free* but not much good without the copyrighted content which is owned by Professors in the department.
If you walk up to your employer, right now, and handed them this "contract" and asked them to sign it, they probably won't.
Obviously the time to negociate is prior to signing the contract. Why would anyone agree to give up something afterwards unless they are recieving something in return? About the only thing you have to offer at this point is your continued employement. It *is* about retaining you, *if* you wait until you are hired to introduce a condition into your employement contract.
The only way this could be done cleanly, after the fact, would be if the original agreement didn't mention IP at all (or mentioned it in a matter that obviously wouldn't apply).
> If this is about code written on company time, I can't see how it can be justified that the developer owns the IP.
>>This logically makes sence; however, there are a few instances
As others have said, it all depends on what is being paid for as specified by the contract governing the relationship. There can be no "logically this is fair" one way or the other. My department at school wants to develop CD based textbooks for the GE classes that we teach. I'm willing to provide a framework for their material as long as I can GPL my work. Take it or find somebody else. I'm working on their time, for them, but if they want it done I control the IP for my contribution and its GPL-ed. The only controversy would be if I wanted to get physics elective credit. Then my department is no longer the entity with which I must negotiate. (I believe I would need to talk to the Dean of Arts and Sciences...)
I've promised myself an 80 Gig HD for Xmas. Am thinking to install Be then because *everyone* I know who has used it *loves* it. I don't really have the headroom to be dualbooting now (but I squeak by installing/uninstalling depending on my tasks). You make a good point that BeOS should have been included in the compare/contrast article.
I don't think you read the article.
My take on it was roughly:
Start Menus: same
Taskbar: MS
Virtual Desktops: Linux
Control Panels: same
File Management: MS catches up
Update Utilities: MS catches up
Personally, I run W2000 (supplemented with Cygwin's GNU tools) and SuSE at home. We use NT4 and IRIX in my physics dept at school. I would agree with the author that the major drawback to windows' GUI is the lack of virtual desktops, but add responsiveness to the list. Linux is like an old MGB roadster. Click -> pop: you're there. Instant feedback.
In terms of stability: I've had W2000 crash and selfcycle into a reboot almost every day. I upgraded from W95 and W2000 seems much more stable than W95 was. I've yet to see anything requiring a manual powerdown to reboot.
A distrubing problem with w2000 involved the start menu losing folders. I could see them in (File)Explorer...but they weren't there on the start menu, or after opening "start" and using the folder-style file management. I could click on a folder in Explorer and it would open as a folder. Clicking on the uparrow to traverse upwards to Programs...and it'd be there, but another one dropped out (as though to make room for it). From the folder view I could manually insert the rest of the URL of a missing folder and it would open up. With explorer open to Programs, and the folder opened to Programs from the Start button, I dragged the missing folders from explorer to *the same location* open as a folder. It seems to have worked.
Summary: the article doesn't say windows wins on GUI. You probably didn't read it. W2000 is way more stable than W95. Linux is way more stable than W2000. Linux, for me, is a much better enviornment to get things done, as virtual desktops are truely effective, and speed matters. The hourglass breaks my train of thought.