The difficulty is that while you respect other people's work, there are those that just want to make a quick buck. Hence copyright of literary works, etc.
I agree with you that the copying of a marble statue, for example, should be recognized as a major investment of skill and effort. However there are at least two more questions: 1) Where do you draw the line between works that can be easily reproduced and those that cannot? 2) How much economic advantage does an individual "deserve" for coming up with a concept first, and how much for implementing the concept? These are very fuzzy questions.
(Despite what this may sound like, I'm not saying we should ignore the issue because it is too tough to consider. I'm merely suggesting reasons why might not have previously been tackled.)
::sigh:: I'd like to think you're just being idealistic and hoping people will develop respect for other people's work to the point where copyrights and patents are truly unnecessary. But instead I'll patiently remind you that copyleft is legally rooted in copyright.
this is a start--even if it's by a huge corporation
Answer me this: Who else can afford to pay for such ads?
Sounds like checkpointing to me. And in any case, while the management program can detect things like fail-stop faults of system components, the only sure way to guard against a few random flipped bits (without ECC) is to duplicate the entire computation.
I don't give a crap what VT's news department claims. READing isn't going to be of much help if you neglect to THINK.
wonder what the next step would be - 128 bit?
In 10 years, unlikely. That would mean that your average OS/software required more than 2^32 * 4GB of physical RAM.
The proposed system creates a class of analysts with an incentive for accuracy. And having their own money at stake will harness the analytical powers more effectively.
Interesting. This begs the question: what if an intelligence agency created a market like the one described for internal use? The rewards wouldn't necessarily have to be money. Rather, this could be used as a "track record" to -- very loosely, of course -- judge the skill of an analyst.
I've seen that kind of effect before, but on a smaller scale. If you don't feel comfortable making major changes to your code, try going through it and just fixing bad style or tweaking computations. Then you might notice some code duplication that could be pulled out into a function or two, and pretty soon you're improving the program's functionality. Small steps are easier to take, so get started on something minor and ramp up the effort as you get more comfortable again.
I have to second this. You've probably heard the saying "Garbage in, garbage out," and while there's no guarantee that just eating well will solve your problems, it should give you more energy to get stuff done. Just don't eat a big meal right before you plan on working, or you might instead choose to nap for just a few minutes...:)
Sure that might be nice for the masses of Free Software people out there, but why do you think RMS would want to spend his time maintaining the Jargon File? I'm sure he has better things to do with his time.
So... correct me if I'm wrong. Your logic is that there exists a non-zero budget, therefore that budget must be unlimited. Um, no.
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Maybe if the professor actually got on IM and talked to students
Once in a while, the course staff of Cornell's CS 312 (Data Structures and Functional Programming) will do just that. It is exactly these unconventional methods that allow us to engage the students and give them a taste of what they'll encounter later on in their studies.
It's not that shocking, however, when you consider that universities aren't working with unlimited budgets. At Cornell, wireless access was once offered in a few dorms, but then removed because Campus Life couldn't pay for the bandwidth. (I should note that wireless access was and still is available at various locations on central campus.)
There are counter-measures against this weakness. As long as distros use them (and I hope they do), it is unlikely that one of these trojans will slip into an officia CD.
Yes, yes, you can buy physical copies of the media, but couldn't someone just root the FTP servers serving the ISOs and plant a modified ISO? The problem doesn't stop just because distros are involved.
That's quite amusing, as I appear to be writing this comment from *on-campus* over a *land line*. But our operating systems course does feature an ad hoc routing assignment which uses handhelds w/ wireless ethernet cards.
Unfortunately, they wandered into someone else's box.
Which is not that hard to do, given that neither one's birthdate nor one's social security number can be considered private. I'm not saying that the actions of the Princeton officals were right. I'm just saying that the security of the Yale admissions system, well, just isn't security.
In any case, it would be terrific to have a viable alternative to Google [my emphasis]
But this search engine's your usual piece of crap. I just did a search for "alpha beta search" and got a site for a scholarship search. I'm sorry, but this is not my idea of relevant results.
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Tell me, does apt update the nvidia driver automatically too?
I dunno about apt, but Gentoo's portage system does.
That is, if it type-checks in your language of choice. (No such (questionable) luck for me. I use ML.)
The difficulty is that while you respect other people's work, there are those that just want to make a quick buck. Hence copyright of literary works, etc.
I agree with you that the copying of a marble statue, for example, should be recognized as a major investment of skill and effort. However there are at least two more questions: 1) Where do you draw the line between works that can be easily reproduced and those that cannot? 2) How much economic advantage does an individual "deserve" for coming up with a concept first, and how much for implementing the concept? These are very fuzzy questions.
(Despite what this may sound like, I'm not saying we should ignore the issue because it is too tough to consider. I'm merely suggesting reasons why might not have previously been tackled.)
Eventually we'll get beyond copyright and patent
::sigh:: I'd like to think you're just being idealistic and hoping people will develop respect for other people's work to the point where copyrights and patents are truly unnecessary. But instead I'll patiently remind you that copyleft is legally rooted in copyright.
this is a start--even if it's by a huge corporation
Answer me this: Who else can afford to pay for such ads?
Deja vu
Sounds like checkpointing to me. And in any case, while the management program can detect things like fail-stop faults of system components, the only sure way to guard against a few random flipped bits (without ECC) is to duplicate the entire computation.
I don't give a crap what VT's news department claims. READing isn't going to be of much help if you neglect to THINK.
wonder what the next step would be - 128 bit? In 10 years, unlikely. That would mean that your average OS/software required more than 2^32 * 4GB of physical RAM.
The proposed system creates a class of analysts with an incentive for accuracy. And having their own money at stake will harness the analytical powers more effectively.
Interesting. This begs the question: what if an intelligence agency created a market like the one described for internal use? The rewards wouldn't necessarily have to be money. Rather, this could be used as a "track record" to -- very loosely, of course -- judge the skill of an analyst.
I've seen that kind of effect before, but on a smaller scale. If you don't feel comfortable making major changes to your code, try going through it and just fixing bad style or tweaking computations. Then you might notice some code duplication that could be pulled out into a function or two, and pretty soon you're improving the program's functionality. Small steps are easier to take, so get started on something minor and ramp up the effort as you get more comfortable again.
4. Eat well
:)
I have to second this. You've probably heard the saying "Garbage in, garbage out," and while there's no guarantee that just eating well will solve your problems, it should give you more energy to get stuff done. Just don't eat a big meal right before you plan on working, or you might instead choose to nap for just a few minutes...
"And your 5:00 weather...
30 minutes later...
"And now for the 6:00 weather...
Heh. Just don't hire them to do math!
I do. And I get to finally see her tomorrow after her month-long travels. Yay!
Dude, that's not cool. Now if you had said something like "trying to finish the HURD"...
Sure that might be nice for the masses of Free Software people out there, but why do you think RMS would want to spend his time maintaining the Jargon File? I'm sure he has better things to do with his time.
For the sake of repeating a good joke:
You're running toast as your kernel???
You're running ghostscript as your kernel??? (Sick, sick people... ::shakes head::)
I keep pointing my daughter at the sun
:)
Careful there -- you don't want her staring at it.
So... correct me if I'm wrong. Your logic is that there exists a non-zero budget, therefore that budget must be unlimited. Um, no.
Maybe if the professor actually got on IM and talked to students
Once in a while, the course staff of Cornell's CS 312 (Data Structures and Functional Programming) will do just that. It is exactly these unconventional methods that allow us to engage the students and give them a taste of what they'll encounter later on in their studies.
It's not that shocking, however, when you consider that universities aren't working with unlimited budgets. At Cornell, wireless access was once offered in a few dorms, but then removed because Campus Life couldn't pay for the bandwidth. (I should note that wireless access was and still is available at various locations on central campus.)
There are counter-measures against this weakness. As long as distros use them (and I hope they do), it is unlikely that one of these trojans will slip into an officia CD.
Yes, yes, you can buy physical copies of the media, but couldn't someone just root the FTP servers serving the ISOs and plant a modified ISO? The problem doesn't stop just because distros are involved.
since they only have a wireless lan there,
That's quite amusing, as I appear to be writing this comment from *on-campus* over a *land line*. But our operating systems course does feature an ad hoc routing assignment which uses handhelds w/ wireless ethernet cards.
Apparently the Princeton-Yale rivalry started in 1868
Nah, I think it's just that when Cornell opened in 1868, they felt the need to fight over who was second-best.
What, you wanna step outside? We can settle this right now!
(In other news, my dean can beat up your dean.)
Unfortunately, they wandered into someone else's box.
Which is not that hard to do, given that neither one's birthdate nor one's social security number can be considered private. I'm not saying that the actions of the Princeton officals were right. I'm just saying that the security of the Yale admissions system, well, just isn't security.
But this search engine's your usual piece of crap. I just did a search for "alpha beta search" and got a site for a scholarship search. I'm sorry, but this is not my idea of relevant results.