I agree that it is wrong and they will get what is due to them, but is it really plagiarism as the article states. If you lookup the word, it always puts it as using someone elses work. If you own it, is it still someone elses? If you read the contracts for Rent-A-Coder, they will say that the coder gives up all rights to the work and it becomes the property of the purchaser.
This still doesn't change the fact that it is cheating, but like the article says this is done in business today. So are they underachievers or just putting a higher value on their own time and cannot afford to pay the wages without outsourcing it?
Has anyone considered whistle blowers and the press here. A company could potentially have a whistle blower or a reporter charged under this since anything written is automatically under a copyright and the company almost surely did not want the potential document released.
In the past, I have written a spreadsheet that looks just like that tax forms sent in the mail. Then you just do that calculations. It is very simple to do and takes away about 90% of the input (Ontario, Canada) you have to do. So I cannot see why it could not be done. It took me two days to enter in the forms.
What amazes me, is in Canada where your banks, schools, employers all send the data to Revenue Canada is that I have to file at all. I shouldn't have to unless I have self income, or something else not on the grid.
There are turorials that explain how to get the basics going. But the real beauty of wxWindows, at least to me, is that the name of the class tells you exaclty what it is. You want a button, wxButton.
Wxwindows is a set of cross platform GUI, DB, Networking, IO classes and sound. It runs under windows, Unix, Linux and many others. Look at http://www.wxwindows.org. I have used it in many different applications.
I think it would take at most about 20yrs to rebuild. Start with simple computational machines that utilize transisters as the process of building a transister is quite well known and easily repeated. Now build on that, refine the process until smaller ones are possible.
This also could be a chance to do it right from the beginning. We have already learnt what not to do.
Maybe it is time to boycotte the companies that are leading this initiative? If they want to hinder the freedome of their users, they will loose a, now, fairly significant part of their server market. Linux has media sexiness now and if the core Linux developers and maintainers in this area(Linus, Alan, Andre) say that there will never be support for this subset of the ATA spec in Linux, then that will send a message. Two years ago, or even last year, it would not have mattered, but when the Internet and companies like IBM are using Linux this heavily, it would mean something.
I can see it now, Apple computers, used by many in the publishing industry wins a legal battle to remove that industry's right's and freedom's to publish the news.
Wouldn't that be ironic:)
At my university we had Windows computes in public access areas to just browse the web. They behaved misserably. They were cracked and they always crashed. My job at the time was to help design a Linux solution. We took the basic debian install and created a client/server approach via NFS. The workstations would run fvwm95 with Mozilla and some games. Mozilla was chosen because you can change everything via a text file and it supports most web pages. The server ran Debian. The hardest part was the installation. Sure you can go around to 100 workstations and do an install, but that takes forever. So we modified the Debian Slink install disk and viola, a single disked network install. The clients now run beautifuly and most people do not know the difference between fvwm95 and Windows 95.
Motif is used extensivly in corporate enviroments. It has been here for quite a while and probably still will be for some time. This will allow for an even greater corporate acceptances of Linux and FreeBSD in big business.
IANAL, but the GPL only stipulates that you must release the code to your users. In this case the user is your employer; you are giving them the code anyways. Now if the company you were to sell your software, they would be bound by the GPL to release the code to anyone who buys it.
I can take a book anywhere and read it. Try reading the manual to your computer system when the computer is not functioning. Sun has this right. With their systems you get a shelf full of manuals that is about 1m-1.5m long.
This could be the work of the MPAA and not Sony. They playstations in Japan have a simple mechanism to disable region locking for DVD's. Essentially, you can play any DVD.
How's this one for you conspiracy theorists?
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Yes, but could an ebook be used as a book shelf or to hide cash or stuff in. How will all the mystery novelists hide the murder weapons?
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There is still the problem of electricity. Even with really long lived batteries, it will still fail at some point. A book is here for hundreds of years. If the world were hit with a huge EM burst with all electronics failing, books will still be here to teach the remaining people (monkeys if you like planet of the apes:) ).
George Orwell's vision might be coming soon!
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Is it just me or does the sound of all books and publications being in electronic form put the fear of Newspeak into your hearts. In "1984", George Orwell invisioned people rewriting the newspapers and burning the old ones. Now with ebooks and electronic publications it is possible to rewrite history and force everyone to read the new version as they do not hold a physical copy. Better yet, if they crack the encryption that protects the publications, sue them under the DMCA.
Big brother may not be watching you, as he/she does not need too. He just changes your history and thus changes your future and now.
Just a thought . . .
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I and I believe many others would rather read a paper book over an ebook any day. When I study for school, I cannot take my computer to bed, even my laptop gets to awkware to hold above my head or it gets too hot. So if I cannot print my ebook, I would never pay for it, and I do not believe I am alone in this.
The problem you will run into with a system like that is not cpu power, but I/O and latency. I believe even the best switches only allow 64 nodes; that is why IBM's Beowulf clusters stop at 64 machines. I believe, however, that QNX allows you to use CPU's like you are describing, and a distributed filesystem like CODA will allow the storage to be destributed.
If you look there are some X files available to all you paranoid types. http://foia.fbi.gov/unusual.htm . It seems that Rosewell was just a weather balloon. . . Right
I can see it now: Mother travelling with her newborn infant is arrested for exporting arms outside of the US. She apparently encrypted a message inside the DNA of her child. . .
"An operating system is a program that acts as an intermediary between a user of a computer and the computer hardware. The purpose of an operating system is to provide an enviroment in which a user can execute programs in a convientient and effiecient manner." Galvin, Operating System Concepts 5th Edition.
So even Windows 9x/2000 fit under this, except convientient and efficient are relative terms.
It seems that every game that comes out these days needs top of the line hardware (it really has always been this way). How much thought in the game design goes into getting every ounce of speed possible, is assembly still used for the code withing critical loops? Or are games just getting to large to optimize at an instruction level?
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I agree that it is wrong and they will get what is due to them, but is it really plagiarism as the article states. If you lookup the word, it always puts it as using someone elses work. If you own it, is it still someone elses? If you read the contracts for Rent-A-Coder, they will say that the coder gives up all rights to the work and it becomes the property of the purchaser.
This still doesn't change the fact that it is cheating, but like the article says this is done in business today. So are they underachievers or just putting a higher value on their own time and cannot afford to pay the wages without outsourcing it?
Isn't that why they call them water fowl :)
Has anyone considered whistle blowers and the press here. A company could potentially have a whistle blower or a reporter charged under this since anything written is automatically under a copyright and the company almost surely did not want the potential document released.
In the past, I have written a spreadsheet that looks just like that tax forms sent in the mail. Then you just do that calculations. It is very simple to do and takes away about 90% of the input (Ontario, Canada) you have to do. So I cannot see why it could not be done. It took me two days to enter in the forms.
What amazes me, is in Canada where your banks, schools, employers all send the data to Revenue Canada is that I have to file at all. I shouldn't have to unless I have self income, or something else not on the grid.
There are turorials that explain how to get the basics going. But the real beauty of wxWindows, at least to me, is that the name of the class tells you exaclty what it is. You want a button, wxButton.
Wxwindows is a set of cross platform GUI, DB, Networking, IO classes and sound. It runs under windows, Unix, Linux and many others. Look at http://www.wxwindows.org. I have used it in many different applications.
I think it would take at most about 20yrs to rebuild. Start with simple computational machines that utilize transisters as the process of building a transister is quite well known and easily repeated. Now build on that, refine the process until smaller ones are possible.
This also could be a chance to do it right from the beginning. We have already learnt what not to do.
Maybe it is time to boycotte the companies that are leading this initiative? If they want to hinder the freedome of their users, they will loose a, now, fairly significant part of their server market. Linux has media sexiness now and if the core Linux developers and maintainers in this area(Linus, Alan, Andre) say that there will never be support for this subset of the ATA spec in Linux, then that will send a message. Two years ago, or even last year, it would not have mattered, but when the Internet and companies like IBM are using Linux this heavily, it would mean something.
Just a thought.
I can see it now, Apple computers, used by many in the publishing industry wins a legal battle to remove that industry's right's and freedom's to publish the news. :)
Wouldn't that be ironic
At my university we had Windows computes in public access areas to just browse the web. They behaved misserably. They were cracked and they always crashed. My job at the time was to help design a Linux solution. We took the basic debian install and created a client/server approach via NFS. The workstations would run fvwm95 with Mozilla and some games. Mozilla was chosen because you can change everything via a text file and it supports most web pages. The server ran Debian.
The hardest part was the installation. Sure you can go around to 100 workstations and do an install, but that takes forever. So we modified the Debian Slink install disk and viola, a single disked network install.
The clients now run beautifuly and most people do not know the difference between fvwm95 and Windows 95.
Motif is used extensivly in corporate enviroments. It has been here for quite a while and probably still will be for some time. This will allow for an even greater corporate acceptances of Linux and FreeBSD in big business.
IANAL, but the GPL only stipulates that you must release the code to your users. In this case the user is your employer; you are giving them the code anyways. Now if the company you were to sell your software, they would be bound by the GPL to release the code to anyone who buys it.
I can take a book anywhere and read it. Try reading the manual to your computer system when the computer is not functioning. Sun has this right. With their systems you get a shelf full of manuals that is about 1m-1.5m long.
This could be the work of the MPAA and not Sony. They playstations in Japan have a simple mechanism to disable region locking for DVD's. Essentially, you can play any DVD.
How's this one for you conspiracy theorists?
Yes, but could an ebook be used as a book shelf or to hide cash or stuff in. How will all the mystery novelists hide the murder weapons?
There is still the problem of electricity. Even with really long lived batteries, it will still fail at some point. A book is here for hundreds of years. If the world were hit with a huge EM burst with all electronics failing, books will still be here to teach the remaining people (monkeys if you like planet of the apes :) ).
Is it just me or does the sound of all books and publications being in electronic form put the fear of Newspeak into your hearts. In "1984", George Orwell invisioned people rewriting the newspapers and burning the old ones. Now with ebooks and electronic publications it is possible to rewrite history and force everyone to read the new version as they do not hold a physical copy. Better yet, if they crack the encryption that protects the publications, sue them under the DMCA.
Big brother may not be watching you, as he/she does not need too. He just changes your history and thus changes your future and now.
Just a thought . . .
I and I believe many others would rather read a paper book over an ebook any day. When I study for school, I cannot take my computer to bed, even my laptop gets to awkware to hold above my head or it gets too hot. So if I cannot print my ebook, I would never pay for it, and I do not believe I am alone in this.
The problem you will run into with a system like that is not cpu power, but I/O and latency. I believe even the best switches only allow 64 nodes; that is why IBM's Beowulf clusters stop at 64 machines. I believe, however, that QNX allows you to use CPU's like you are describing, and a distributed filesystem like CODA will allow the storage to be destributed.
If you look there are some X files available to all you paranoid types. http://foia.fbi.gov/unusual.htm . It seems that Rosewell was just a weather balloon. . . Right
I can see it now: Mother travelling with her newborn infant is arrested for exporting arms outside of the US. She apparently encrypted a message inside the DNA of her child. . .
"An operating system is a program that acts as an intermediary between a user of a computer and the computer hardware. The purpose of an operating system is to provide an enviroment in which a user can execute programs in a convientient and effiecient manner." Galvin, Operating System Concepts 5th Edition.
So even Windows 9x/2000 fit under this, except convientient and efficient are relative terms.
It seems that every game that comes out these days needs top of the line hardware (it really has always been this way). How much thought in the game design goes into getting every ounce of speed possible, is assembly still used for the code withing critical loops? Or are games just getting to large to optimize at an instruction level?
Actually you are incorrect. Go to http://www.rpmfind.net or ftp://ftp.rpmfind.net . They have nearly every rpm created with numerouos versions.