Last time I went to use wxWindows there were no dialog editors to speak of. Actually having to sit down and design a dialog box using pen and paper is not my idea of a good time.
You'd make the person show up, in person, with 100 points of ID including 2 primary documents and 3 secondary documents, and you'd take a picture and fingerprints before you handed over the keys. You think all that's going to cost $15? I think not, expect the price of a simple certificate to go up.
Simple truth: Functional languages are great for writing functions. I/O isn't suited to functional programming for precisely this reason. CVS is a 100% I/O process (talking to sockets and files). Therefore, any functional language is the worst possible choice of language you could make to write something like CVS.
you say this as if having sole control of distribution and copyright of your work is a bad thing. of course it's a legally sanctioned monopoly, it's called copyright.
There is such a thing as fair use.
you mean the part of the contract that states users may not use the service provided to engage in unlawful behaviour?
It is unfortunate that most people don't read terms of service before they enter into these agreements. It is more unforunate that some do read these agreements and think they are ok. My ISP is my carrier, they are not my moral (or legal) guardians. They provide me with a service, if I choose to do something unlawful with that service then, no, they do not have the right to discontinue my service. The copyright holder has the right to sue me, and seek damages, my ISP is an unrelated third party.
please. protecting freedom doesn't apply here.
It does. It is my freedom to use the services that I have paid for in the way that I see fit. When my ISP refuses to provide me with that service out of fear of litigation then my freedom is being stiffled, without even the involvement of a court.
Whining about what the copyright holders are doing to protect their legally sanctioned monopolies is not the way to go about fighting this kind of thing. Anyone who has a lawyer will always be threatening someone, that's what lawyers are, they're middle men for thugs, and that's what thugs do, they threaten. If you receive a threat (from anyone) there is only one response: ignore it.
Unfortunately, there are some people who respond to threats. In Australia we have had a number of ISPs that have failed to honour the contracts they have made with their customers out of fear of litigation. This kind of yellow belly behaviour is common where the threatened feels no respect for those who will suffer from their complacency. These are the people we need to report.
If you have had your account removed or your service disconnected by your ISP, please report it!
It is the responsibility of our freedom loving society to avoid service providers who fail to protect that freedom. If each of us take notice of these reports and boycott those ISPs that fail to protect us, then maybe we can affect real change.
is known around campus as the prof who traps ions in the basement of the physics building. Always funny to see someone from your own university quoted as an authority.
"Another thing that got forgotten was the fact that against all probability a sperm whale had suddenly been called into existence several miles above the surface of an alien planet. And since this is not a naturally tenable position for a whale, this poor innocent creature had very little time to come to terms with its identity as a whale before in then had to come to terms with not being a whale any more. This is a complete record of its thought from the moment it began its life till the moment in ended it. Ah...! What's happening? it thought. Er, excuse me, who am I? Hello? Why am I here? What's my purpose in life? What do I mean by who am I? Calm down, get a grip now...oh! this is an interesting sensation, what is it? It's a sort of...yawning, tingling sensation in my...my...well, I suppose I'd better stat finding names for things if I want to make any headway in what for the sake of what I shall call an argument I shall call the world, so let's call it my stomach. Good. Ooooh, it's getting quite strong. And hey, what about this whistling roaring sound going past what I'm suddenly going to call my head? Perhaps I can call that...wind! Is that a good name? It'll do...perhaps I can find a better name for it later when I've found out what it's for. It must be something very, important because there certainly seems to be a hell of a lot of it. Hey! What's this thing? This...let's call it a tail - yeah, tail. Hey! I can really thrash it about pretty good, can't I? Wow! Wow! That feels great! Doesn't seem to achieve very much but I'll probably find out what it's for later on. Now, have I built up any coherent picture of things yet? No. Never mind, hey, this is really exciting, so much to find out about, so much to look forward to, I'm quite dizzy with anticipation... Or is it the wind? There really is a lot of that now, Isn't there? And wow! Hey! What's this thing suddenly coming toward me very fast? Very, very fast. So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide-sounding name like...ow...ound...round...ground! That's it! That's a good name--ground! I wonder if it will be friends with me?
And the rest, after a sudden wet thud, was silence
curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was Oh no, not again. Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly why the bowl of petunias had thought that we would know a lot more about the nature of the Universe than we do now."
Seriously though.. I'm downloading your dissertion now.
2000 was when it was concluded. Knowing the Australian legal system, it was probably filed long before that. I believe it is still mentioned in the school literature on "copyright information for students".
University of Queensland in Australia. For some reason I think you yanks would have had the extact same thing happen over there long long long before someone bothered to contact a lawyer in.au.
especially seeing most schools use electronic plagarism detection systems now. They would just have to add his solution to the list of assignments to check.
That is basically the crux of their arguement, that I am giving students the capability to cheat.
Bah! So do text books. I know that one overzealous computer science professor actually makes his students sign contracts that give legal ownership of their code to him to prevent just this.
And I believe that would not be a legal contract. They tried to do that at my university. The school was sued and they lost. It is no longer the policy.
I think it is a widespread problem. It is hard to come up with significantly different projects every year because the projects chosen are trivial. Well that's just the problem I say. Isn't it wasteful to have the best minds in the country all doing the same thing, over and over every year? I've found that the quality of work produced in universities is equal or greater than that produced in industry -- when students are given correct guidance and a chance.
Everyone is always talking about academia needing more industry involvement. Well, here's your chance. Universities should accept project suggestions from industry and charge a fee for the resulting work. That money can go into providing better education for the school and reducing the cost of going to college, resulting in more education for more people.
If you don't like the commercialism, get students to work on open source projects. My school took up this practice last year. They adopted 7 or 8 open source Java projects and got students to write documentation, re-engineer UML diagrams and write extensions. This work is either being contributed back to the projects involved or the project is being developed "in-house" so to speak, at the university.
There's plenty of way your professors can be creative in designing their projects each year. Hopefully they can do it so that a student's work does not go to waste! Although many professors appear to have the attitude that nothing a student does can ever be worth anything.
Don't know about your school but at mine we own everything we write. So the lecturers can maintain copyright on the exam papers and such but anything we create for project/assignment assessment is our own. Regardless of your school's policy on plagarism you are entiled to publish and distribute the work as you see fit. As this right is granted to you by law, it supercedes any policy that the school may wish to enforce.
Frankly, why doesn't your lecturers make the assignment work a little harder to cheat. Surely there are projects that can be significantly different each year that you couldn't just go to a textbook, for example, and get the same answers as are on your web page.
In any case, ask them to put their opinion in writing so you can give it to a lawyer. If they don't want to then ask them to please stop wasting your time.
uh huh. 'cause god forbid that you actually acknowledge all the work that went into the tools precured from the GNU project. Much better to refer to a unix-like operating system by using the name of the kernel -- the part that 99% of people have absolutely no interaction with. Shit, even if you're a developer you don't talk to the kernel (the c library is a part of the GNU project).
You say you are going to stop using Borland because you don't like the whip hand that you live under and yet you're migrating to Microsoft? Hello? Perhaps you should investigate Free Software and liberate yourself.
It is the responsibility of Borland to convince anyone who uses their software that they are to pay some desired amount. No-one is ever entitled to payment in this wonderful system of free enterprise.
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Last time I went to use wxWindows there were no dialog editors to speak of. Actually having to sit down and design a dialog box using pen and paper is not my idea of a good time.
You'd make the person show up, in person, with 100 points of ID including 2 primary documents and 3 secondary documents, and you'd take a picture and fingerprints before you handed over the keys. You think all that's going to cost $15? I think not, expect the price of a simple certificate to go up.
Can't say I've ever felt it, unless you mean that feeling you get when your girlfriend cries, that's just a chemical reaction to psychological input.
Simple truth: Functional languages are great for writing functions. I/O isn't suited to functional programming for precisely this reason. CVS is a 100% I/O process (talking to sockets and files). Therefore, any functional language is the worst possible choice of language you could make to write something like CVS.
ahh.. what about all the people who use gnutella to trade kernel patches?
There is such a thing as fair use.
you mean the part of the contract that states users may not use the service provided to engage in unlawful behaviour?
It is unfortunate that most people don't read terms of service before they enter into these agreements. It is more unforunate that some do read these agreements and think they are ok. My ISP is my carrier, they are not my moral (or legal) guardians. They provide me with a service, if I choose to do something unlawful with that service then, no, they do not have the right to discontinue my service. The copyright holder has the right to sue me, and seek damages, my ISP is an unrelated third party.
please. protecting freedom doesn't apply here.
It does. It is my freedom to use the services that I have paid for in the way that I see fit. When my ISP refuses to provide me with that service out of fear of litigation then my freedom is being stiffled, without even the involvement of a court.
Unfortunately, there are some people who respond to threats. In Australia we have had a number of ISPs that have failed to honour the contracts they have made with their customers out of fear of litigation. This kind of yellow belly behaviour is common where the threatened feels no respect for those who will suffer from their complacency. These are the people we need to report.
If you have had your account removed or your service disconnected by your ISP, please report it!
It is the responsibility of our freedom loving society to avoid service providers who fail to protect that freedom. If each of us take notice of these reports and boycott those ISPs that fail to protect us, then maybe we can affect real change.
you associate ignoring copyright laws with theft. You are already lost.
is known around campus as the prof who traps ions in the basement of the physics building. Always funny to see someone from your own university quoted as an authority.
"Another thing that got forgotten was the fact that against all probability a sperm whale had suddenly been called into existence several miles above the surface of an alien planet.
And since this is not a naturally tenable position for a whale, this poor innocent creature had very little time to come to terms with its identity as a whale before in then had to come to terms with not being a whale any more.
This is a complete record of its thought from the moment it began its life till the moment in ended it.
Ah...! What's happening? it thought.
Er, excuse me, who am I?
Hello?
Why am I here? What's my purpose in life?
What do I mean by who am I?
Calm down, get a grip now...oh! this is an interesting sensation, what is it? It's a sort of...yawning, tingling sensation in my...my...well, I suppose I'd better stat finding names for things if I want to make any headway in what for the sake of what I shall call an argument I shall call the world, so let's call it my stomach.
Good. Ooooh, it's getting quite strong. And hey, what about this whistling roaring sound going past what I'm suddenly going to call my head? Perhaps I can call that...wind! Is that a good name? It'll do...perhaps I can find a better name for it later when I've found out what it's for. It must be something very, important because there certainly seems to be a hell of a lot of it. Hey! What's this thing? This...let's call it a tail - yeah, tail. Hey! I can really thrash it about pretty good, can't I? Wow! Wow! That feels great! Doesn't seem to achieve very much but I'll probably find out what it's for later on. Now, have I built up any coherent picture of things yet?
No.
Never mind, hey, this is really exciting, so much to find out about, so much to look forward to, I'm quite dizzy with anticipation...
Or is it the wind?
There really is a lot of that now, Isn't there?
And wow! Hey! What's this thing suddenly coming toward me very fast? Very, very fast. So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide-sounding name like...ow...ound...round...ground! That's it! That's a good name--ground!
I wonder if it will be friends with me?
And the rest, after a sudden wet thud, was silence
curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was Oh no, not again. Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly why the bowl of petunias had thought that we would know a lot more about the nature of the Universe than we do now."
Seriously though.. I'm downloading your dissertion now.
the close-your-eyes-and-it-will-go-away attitude.
2000 was when it was concluded. Knowing the Australian legal system, it was probably filed long before that. I believe it is still mentioned in the school literature on "copyright information for students".
So what you are saying is that school programming projects are so far from industry to be useless at preparing students for the real world.
sorry, if it's something you cant protect against by changing every year then put it on the exam.
during quizzes, examinations, or other class exercises
If you're going to quote something at least read it. He's not in a quiz, or an exam or a class exercise. It was an assignment.
University of Queensland in Australia. For some reason I think you yanks would have had the extact same thing happen over there long long long before someone bothered to contact a lawyer in .au.
especially seeing most schools use electronic plagarism detection systems now. They would just have to add his solution to the list of assignments to check.
Bah! So do text books.
I know that one overzealous computer science professor actually makes his students sign contracts that give legal ownership of their code to him to prevent just this.
And I believe that would not be a legal contract. They tried to do that at my university. The school was sued and they lost. It is no longer the policy.
Everyone is always talking about academia needing more industry involvement. Well, here's your chance. Universities should accept project suggestions from industry and charge a fee for the resulting work. That money can go into providing better education for the school and reducing the cost of going to college, resulting in more education for more people.
If you don't like the commercialism, get students to work on open source projects. My school took up this practice last year. They adopted 7 or 8 open source Java projects and got students to write documentation, re-engineer UML diagrams and write extensions. This work is either being contributed back to the projects involved or the project is being developed "in-house" so to speak, at the university.
There's plenty of way your professors can be creative in designing their projects each year. Hopefully they can do it so that a student's work does not go to waste! Although many professors appear to have the attitude that nothing a student does can ever be worth anything.
Frankly, why doesn't your lecturers make the assignment work a little harder to cheat. Surely there are projects that can be significantly different each year that you couldn't just go to a textbook, for example, and get the same answers as are on your web page.
In any case, ask them to put their opinion in writing so you can give it to a lawyer. If they don't want to then ask them to please stop wasting your time.
uh huh. 'cause god forbid that you actually acknowledge all the work that went into the tools precured from the GNU project. Much better to refer to a unix-like operating system by using the name of the kernel -- the part that 99% of people have absolutely no interaction with. Shit, even if you're a developer you don't talk to the kernel (the c library is a part of the GNU project).
What article? It's an Ask Slashdot. Maybe ya both should shut up.
You say you are going to stop using Borland because you don't like the whip hand that you live under and yet you're migrating to Microsoft? Hello? Perhaps you should investigate Free Software and liberate yourself.
It is the responsibility of Borland to convince anyone who uses their software that they are to pay some desired amount. No-one is ever entitled to payment in this wonderful system of free enterprise.
and that's why you'll never be picked.