I'm sure that the publishers would rather charge them for it. Take instructions on how to reorder the book, then ship to Xerox for "On-demand" publishing.
Oh, and the limited-edition nature of the books would make them more valuable, both in the collector sense and in the I'm-a-student-and-I-need-this-textbook sense.
Sigh...when I was a a kid, I heard about the geek stereotype, and thought that the mental and social aspects greatly resembled my own situation.
So I didn't bother avoiding the physical aspect. Now I'm working to lose a lot of that bit. Unfortunately, it takes an awful lot of exercise to power a computer, so I've had to resort to more mondane (thus less effective) methods.
My parents do the same thing with Age of Empires. They want to get me in on the gameplay, but I don't have a network connection in my room yet. (And likely won't...I'm expecting to spend most of my non-school+work time in GRR soon at my grandparents'.)
I used to play a video poker game on my Palm, but I won so much that it stopped counting the numbers properly. Even looking at the score differences in binary, I couldn't find a pattern.
Two people can do the same work, but one takes half the time to do it. Which one is going to be hired? By your logic, the "lazy" one.
Academic environments are usually separate from business environments. And for the employee with talent, there's a choice. Do they do an OK job on twice as much work, or do they do a superb job on the work that's due?
In a business environment, quality vs quantity comes into play, as well as timeliness and set deadlines.
In an academic environment, a student is normally given a due date for the assignment, and he's expected to do the best damn job you can at it.
The primary purpose of attending an academic environment is to learn and improve your skills.
On the other hand, it's also pretty hard to stay employed until retirement without learning and improving. I'm not saying it doesn't happen, but it's also not something a student should be taught to expect.
So? As another poster pointed out, it truly is informative.
And if you checked his posting history, you may have read his comments. He doesn't use the karma troll, and, judging by his uid, he doesn't use it for the +1 karma posting bonus, either.
Ah, but to extend it, you have to work hard at it. It's like exercise. If you don't push yourself, you don't really improve.
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The way I read the situation, SCO thinks the FSF tracks the [lack of] enforcement of the GPL. If the FSF does track such things, it's likely that they wrote analysis essays on why, and what the effect on the overall public attitude towards the GPL is.
What's at issue is how well students are utilizing the abilities they have. An ability is worthless if the person who has it doesn't use it and extend it.
OSX is based on BSD. AFAIK, in the only legal case regarding BSD, the judge ruled that he thought it would be extremely unlikely that AT&T would be able to prove that they still owned the source code, after scientists had gone through and improved/rewritten much of it.
Well, then I'm pleased with them for the first time in a long time. The last time was when Boise was the point against Microsoft.
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emerge is fine if you have an Internet connection. Under Debian, at least, apt-get will read from CDs and local mirrors.
( I copied 10 CDs worth of debs to a mirror tree, so "apt-get install" works without an Internet connection. I've got a friend delivering all 13 of the latest "testing" images tonight. Looking forward to new stuff...I haven't updated since January. )
Don't intercontinental data carriers charge by the amount of data transferred? I'm not sure how much data normally goes through those lines, but I suspect this article is going to hurt someone's pocketbook.
I just had an odd idea. How about using LZip as a form of weak encryption? Your key would be the bitmap difference between the output of decompression and the original.
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I'm sure that the publishers would rather charge them for it. Take instructions on how to reorder the book, then ship to Xerox for "On-demand" publishing.
Oh, and the limited-edition nature of the books would make them more valuable, both in the collector sense and in the I'm-a-student-and-I-need-this-textbook sense.
I'm surprised we never saw Niven's concept of "flatlanders" ...
I think the closest we came was the Next Gen episode about the society that only reproduced through cloning.
Sigh...when I was a a kid, I heard about the geek stereotype, and thought that the mental and social aspects greatly resembled my own situation.
So I didn't bother avoiding the physical aspect. Now I'm working to lose a lot of that bit. Unfortunately, it takes an awful lot of exercise to power a computer, so I've had to resort to more mondane (thus less effective) methods.
Except that in Star Trek: Generations, Kirk died. Really.
Unless they pull him out of his past, before that point, like they did in Highlander 2.
My parents do the same thing with Age of Empires. They want to get me in on the gameplay, but I don't have a network connection in my room yet. (And likely won't...I'm expecting to spend most of my non-school+work time in GRR soon at my grandparents'.)
I used to play a video poker game on my Palm, but I won so much that it stopped counting the numbers properly. Even looking at the score differences in binary, I couldn't find a pattern.
(robot construction kits between missions)
Wasn't there a PSX game along those lines? Carnage Heart?
Never played it, but I was certainly interested.
Two people can do the same work, but one takes half the time to do it. Which one is going to be hired? By your logic, the "lazy" one.
Academic environments are usually separate from business environments. And for the employee with talent, there's a choice. Do they do an OK job on twice as much work, or do they do a superb job on the work that's due?
In a business environment, quality vs quantity comes into play, as well as timeliness and set deadlines.
In an academic environment, a student is normally given a due date for the assignment, and he's expected to do the best damn job you can at it.
The primary purpose of attending an academic environment is to learn and improve your skills.
On the other hand, it's also pretty hard to stay employed until retirement without learning and improving. I'm not saying it doesn't happen, but it's also not something a student should be taught to expect.
Meat-flavored spam? I might actually like it...
So? As another poster pointed out, it truly is informative.
And if you checked his posting history, you may have read his comments. He doesn't use the karma troll, and, judging by his uid, he doesn't use it for the +1 karma posting bonus, either.
Heh. That makes you wonder if the same could be sed about SCO's UNIX product.
Ah, but to extend it, you have to work hard at it. It's like exercise. If you don't push yourself, you don't really improve.
The way I read the situation, SCO thinks the FSF tracks the [lack of] enforcement of the GPL. If the FSF does track such things, it's likely that they wrote analysis essays on why, and what the effect on the overall public attitude towards the GPL is.
Why punish those with ability,
It's a penalty for being lazy.
why reward those who are not talented.
It's a reward for those who work hard.
What's at issue is how well students are utilizing the abilities they have. An ability is worthless if the person who has it doesn't use it and extend it.
OSX is based on BSD. AFAIK, in the only legal case regarding BSD, the judge ruled that he thought it would be extremely unlikely that AT&T would be able to prove that they still owned the source code, after scientists had gone through and improved/rewritten much of it.
Teachers? No. Graders? Maybe.
( Though I wouldn't call it a simple script. )
Well, then I'm pleased with them for the first time in a long time. The last time was when Boise was the point against Microsoft.
emerge is fine if you have an Internet connection. Under Debian, at least, apt-get will read from CDs and local mirrors.
( I copied 10 CDs worth of debs to a mirror tree, so "apt-get install" works without an Internet connection. I've got a friend delivering all 13 of the latest "testing" images tonight. Looking forward to new stuff...I haven't updated since January. )
Yes.
I prefer reading it from the Google archives.
Don't intercontinental data carriers charge by the amount of data transferred? I'm not sure how much data normally goes through those lines, but I suspect this article is going to hurt someone's pocketbook.
I'm worried they're going to try to tax the software involved. That's the only way to really kill it.
While I'm thinking about it: Has anyone developed a peer-to-peer VoIP system yet? Something that could be patched into a p2p IM network?
When I was a kid, I used to refern to that flash of light in ST:TNG as the "warp flare" ...
Around here in Michigan, it used to be Michigan Bell. They got bought by Ameritech, who was then bought by SBC.
Verizon also provides local service in some areas.
I just had an odd idea. How about using LZip as a form of weak encryption? Your key would be the bitmap difference between the output of decompression and the original.