Everyone is so busy trademarking and copyrighting every fucking thing even in the "Free" software arena. It's all going to hell in a handbasket. Even without this nonesense there's no such thing as a truely standard OS in the same sense that a Windows XP installation is standard - you know EXACTLY the same tools and interfaces so things aren't a total suprise and people don't have to re-learn the intricacise and idiosynchronicies of the OS every time they install a different version I mean sorry oops distro of Linux. You expect this in the paid software arena which is heading towards the DRM every time you activate or run the software. But for fuck sake pull your fingers out in the free software arena before we start end up in the "dark ages of software" where no one can even run 2 year old apps because of legal or DRM restrictions.
Nuts "to different degrees" is the key. I think we're all nuts to different degrees - it's the human condition not exclusively owned by the female of the species. But there's nutty and then there's life destroying over the top make you wish you were dead wack job.
...breed out the gene that attracts psycho women who think they're a witch, read their stars religously every day, and treat their cat as if it were their child? On second thoughts I like having a clear sign that a chick is nuts. Without this men would fall prey to the psycho chicks more often.
So make it vountary to submit your paper to the database and compensate the starving students if they choose to do that. Why should any company be permitted to profit from an artifact of their work and studies?
You're absolutely right to refuse to install pirated apps, but I find it very hard to believe every customer you have only runs pirated Windows and Office.
For me it's always going to be about the software. The OS is not my focus at all and never will be. I don't run a computer so I can run an OS. I do more than just browse, read email and create wordprocessor documents and I still find Linux software remarkably limited and limiting when you want to go beyond that. That's unfortunate because I don't love Windows and I don't love monopolies but a computer that won't do what I want it to is useless to me.
Look it's this simple. When you submit your work to your professor you're saying "here's proof that I've learnt the content of the course". If you submit someone else's work you've proven nothing. If you try to submit someone else's work as you're own you're cheating.
Now the professor doesn't present his work to you in order to proove he can do anything. You're not even qualified to judge him. He presents what material he needs to teach you the concepts you need to learn. Unless he's putting his name on someone else's work and explicitly saying it's his, the worst he has done is omit references. Your professor is held to the same standards WHEN HE PRESENTS HIS WORK TO HIS PEERS, NOT TO YOU.
The fact that you don't understand or don't care that it takes time and effort to create a quality assignment bewilders me. The professor has work to do other than teaching and is not paid to waste his time coming up with variations on an assignment again and again. What's more the professor isn't there to hold your hand or make life fair. That is a highschool mentality you need to leave behind if you're ever going to work in academia or industry.
I taught at a university for 2 semesters. An elective each semester. I was paid for an hour or 2 preparation for each semester and no more. (If I'd have been permanent I think I'd have had about double that). Fortunately I had most of my work prepared for me. Believe me it's a thanksless underpaid job. When I did my Masters in Astronomy, our supervisors were paid for 20 teaching hours per semester, and that's it. No prep time. No consideration for the fact that a distance course is harder to administer.
Most lecturers and professors suppliment their income in other ways (such as consulting) or they'd never make enough to feed their families. Grow up and stop being so ungrateful. If you find evidence that students are cheating give that evidence to your professor.
Actually, the IUA 2k6 redefinition of a planet it set to apply only within this solar system, and therefore has no provision for extrasolar planets
Isn't that just an (admittedly better worded) restatement of what I just said?
Frankly I think the IAU have managed to look like a bunch of bafoons. There are so many things wrong with the definition as compared with hundreds of years of usage, and doing an about face after their first press release makes them look assinine.
he crusades were started by people influenced by the graphically violent board game chess...but see I don't mind if they do ban most board games (although please not chess!). After the number of fights I've seen monopoly cause I think it should be banned;-)
Data being lost in crashes aren't the problem at all.
It's the 'simply log into your account information page and click the "Deauthorize All Computers" part that's the issue'. You aren't deauthorising anything. You're ASKING Apple to. Apple can withdraw that service, and authorisation and deauthorisation wouldnt' work. At that point you couldn't do a thing after moving to a new system. (It MAY be possible to image your system so you could recover old settings, keys etc. but once that system dies that's no longer an option).
What's more Apple can stop supporting authorisations in favour of a new format, or can be sold/taken over/go bankrupt.
I don't like iTunes and I won't buy from it as you suggest. But I don't like people like you making out there is no problem with the system when there clearly is one. If you're happy to let someone else control your ability to use your own data that's fine but don't YOU spread FUD.
Also do you want our history and the software that came before to disappear. Imagine if early aviators built self destructs into their aircraft. What would be left for the Smithsonian?
Unlike you lots of people keep, restore and use old things. People still play phonographs. Not your average man on the street but collectors do.
This idea of a fucking throw away society is just plain bone headed.
Yes, you're right. Professors need to stop being so lazy. In fact they need to go back to first principles when explaining anything. They should also make anything they use in a lecture themselves. Otherwise you're presenting other people's work creating white boards, projectors, and even laptops as their own.
Hmmm one problem, this would all set us back into the stone age and no one would learn anything.
If a professor presents slides as their own original work and it's not that's called plagarism and is treated very seriously in the academic world. Your professors wouldn't even waste their time doing that for the sake of teaching a class, let alone risking their academic credibility. That's just laugable. if you're assuming anything the professor uses in class is their own material it's your understand that needs adjusting.
You go out and write a fucking course from scratch, including all the assignments, slides, tutorials etc. complete with worked answers. Then come back and bitch.
It's not about being too dumb to backup your files. DRM ties you to a single player/machine and revalidates. That puts the entire control at the discression of the company that sold you the music. What if they go bankrupt, merge, change ownership, decide to no longer support a given format at their store...etc.
If you honestly believe that all you have to do is back up your files and you'll never lose your DRM content, it's no wonder you don't mind DRM.
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...for security holes in an OS, and plenty of people install antivirius software.
Everyone is so busy trademarking and copyrighting every fucking thing even in the "Free" software arena. It's all going to hell in a handbasket. Even without this nonesense there's no such thing as a truely standard OS in the same sense that a Windows XP installation is standard - you know EXACTLY the same tools and interfaces so things aren't a total suprise and people don't have to re-learn the intricacise and idiosynchronicies of the OS every time they install a different version I mean sorry oops distro of Linux. You expect this in the paid software arena which is heading towards the DRM every time you activate or run the software. But for fuck sake pull your fingers out in the free software arena before we start end up in the "dark ages of software" where no one can even run 2 year old apps because of legal or DRM restrictions.
FUUUUUCCCCKKKKK!!!!!!
Things aren't built to last forever. Anyone know what the envisioned life of the ACS is? (no pun intended)
This message will self destruct in 5...4....3....2....1....
I want to be free from fashion, but I suspect I'd be arrested if I let it all hang free.
Nuts "to different degrees" is the key. I think we're all nuts to different degrees - it's the human condition not exclusively owned by the female of the species. But there's nutty and then there's life destroying over the top make you wish you were dead wack job.
...breed out the gene that attracts psycho women who think they're a witch, read their stars religously every day, and treat their cat as if it were their child? On second thoughts I like having a clear sign that a chick is nuts. Without this men would fall prey to the psycho chicks more often.
So make it vountary to submit your paper to the database and compensate the starving students if they choose to do that. Why should any company be permitted to profit from an artifact of their work and studies?
You're absolutely right to refuse to install pirated apps, but I find it very hard to believe every customer you have only runs pirated Windows and Office.
For me it's always going to be about the software. The OS is not my focus at all and never will be. I don't run a computer so I can run an OS. I do more than just browse, read email and create wordprocessor documents and I still find Linux software remarkably limited and limiting when you want to go beyond that. That's unfortunate because I don't love Windows and I don't love monopolies but a computer that won't do what I want it to is useless to me.
--it's not like we're saying "If you don't use this software instead, you're going to HELL!!!"
Obviously you've never seen Stallman talk, dressed in his robe and sporting a halo.
Make no mistake OSS is religion my friend.
Screw that! What about Santa!? I want my pressies damnit!
Look it's this simple. When you submit your work to your professor you're saying "here's proof that I've learnt the content of the course". If you submit someone else's work you've proven nothing. If you try to submit someone else's work as you're own you're cheating.
Now the professor doesn't present his work to you in order to proove he can do anything. You're not even qualified to judge him. He presents what material he needs to teach you the concepts you need to learn. Unless he's putting his name on someone else's work and explicitly saying it's his, the worst he has done is omit references. Your professor is held to the same standards WHEN HE PRESENTS HIS WORK TO HIS PEERS, NOT TO YOU.
The fact that you don't understand or don't care that it takes time and effort to create a quality assignment bewilders me. The professor has work to do other than teaching and is not paid to waste his time coming up with variations on an assignment again and again. What's more the professor isn't there to hold your hand or make life fair. That is a highschool mentality you need to leave behind if you're ever going to work in academia or industry.
I taught at a university for 2 semesters. An elective each semester. I was paid for an hour or 2 preparation for each semester and no more. (If I'd have been permanent I think I'd have had about double that). Fortunately I had most of my work prepared for me. Believe me it's a thanksless underpaid job. When I did my Masters in Astronomy, our supervisors were paid for 20 teaching hours per semester, and that's it. No prep time. No consideration for the fact that a distance course is harder to administer.
Most lecturers and professors suppliment their income in other ways (such as consulting) or they'd never make enough to feed their families. Grow up and stop being so ungrateful. If you find evidence that students are cheating give that evidence to your professor.
Actually, the IUA 2k6 redefinition of a planet it set to apply only within this solar system, and therefore has no provision for extrasolar planets
Isn't that just an (admittedly better worded) restatement of what I just said?
Frankly I think the IAU have managed to look like a bunch of bafoons. There are so many things wrong with the definition as compared with hundreds of years of usage, and doing an about face after their first press release makes them look assinine.
Dude, a digital LOCK controlled by someone other the file owner IS by definition a virus!
They're called mosquitos.
he crusades were started by people influenced by the graphically violent board game chess ...but see I don't mind if they do ban most board games (although please not chess!). After the number of fights I've seen monopoly cause I think it should be banned ;-)
Running on NT? Does that mean MS no longer supports the constitution? Is that a General Protection Fault?
We also have very good chocolate, waffles and child molesters.
Good child molesters? As opposed to evil sick as all fuck, shoot the pervert on site child molesters?
Didn't you get Steve's memo? It's "developers! developers! developers!"
No it's you that needs to spread FUD.
Data being lost in crashes aren't the problem at all.
It's the 'simply log into your account information page and click the "Deauthorize All Computers" part that's the issue'. You aren't deauthorising anything. You're ASKING Apple to. Apple can withdraw that service, and authorisation and deauthorisation wouldnt' work. At that point you couldn't do a thing after moving to a new system. (It MAY be possible to image your system so you could recover old settings, keys etc. but once that system dies that's no longer an option).
What's more Apple can stop supporting authorisations in favour of a new format, or can be sold/taken over/go bankrupt.
I don't like iTunes and I won't buy from it as you suggest. But I don't like people like you making out there is no problem with the system when there clearly is one. If you're happy to let someone else control your ability to use your own data that's fine but don't YOU spread FUD.
Almost everything is not everything.
Also do you want our history and the software that came before to disappear. Imagine if early aviators built self destructs into their aircraft. What would be left for the Smithsonian?
Unlike you lots of people keep, restore and use old things. People still play phonographs. Not your average man on the street but collectors do.
This idea of a fucking throw away society is just plain bone headed.
"Damnit Scottie, there's no time to explain. We need more cooling!".
"But cap'n she canno take any more".
1 - Ponies!
Yes, you're right. Professors need to stop being so lazy. In fact they need to go back to first principles when explaining anything. They should also make anything they use in a lecture themselves. Otherwise you're presenting other people's work creating white boards, projectors, and even laptops as their own.
Hmmm one problem, this would all set us back into the stone age and no one would learn anything.
If a professor presents slides as their own original work and it's not that's called plagarism and is treated very seriously in the academic world. Your professors wouldn't even waste their time doing that for the sake of teaching a class, let alone risking their academic credibility. That's just laugable. if you're assuming anything the professor uses in class is their own material it's your understand that needs adjusting.
You go out and write a fucking course from scratch, including all the assignments, slides, tutorials etc. complete with worked answers. Then come back and bitch.
It's not about being too dumb to backup your files. DRM ties you to a single player/machine and revalidates. That puts the entire control at the discression of the company that sold you the music. What if they go bankrupt, merge, change ownership, decide to no longer support a given format at their store...etc.
If you honestly believe that all you have to do is back up your files and you'll never lose your DRM content, it's no wonder you don't mind DRM.