Except consideration doesn't have to be monetary. It becomes more murky, but consideration of the form "I grant you the right to use this, in consideration of which, any redistribution you do must also be under the GPL, and you must make the source available".
Offer -> Your copyright work and the source therof
Acceptace -> The other person downloading and using your work
Consideration -> The requirement that any derivation of your work be GPL'd
It is subtle, but I think it would fly in court.
You might ask "Well then what about people who don't redistribute?" Well, copyright has nothing to do with them once they have received their copy, so as long as they don't redistribute, the contractual obligations of the GPL don't even apply to them.
Not necessarily. If you take the legal position that a license agreement is a contract, the author simply can't unilaterally revoke the license. "revoking" the license is essentially a modification of the contract, and has to be agreed to by both parties. Now, one party can try to claim to contract is voided, but then it is up to them to show it legally is, in court.
Why the focus on Java? Because it hides low level execution details? Well, those are important to learn. But if you are taking an Algorithms course, why should you need to take the time to worry about platform specific execution details? Shouldn't you be more focused on the general applicability of the algorithm itself? I am curious what this guy would want used. Maybe all introductory courses should be in various assembly languages? Make sure those freshman have a good understanding of how the machine is actually doing stuff, who needs high level language abstractions! He complains about students not knowing what a compiler does, but frankly, I don't recall any of my introductory courses( in C) teaching any specifics of what the compiler did. I learned that in a class....devoted...to...compilers.
Should universities no longer teach any functional programming either? After all, functional languages are very high level, and not even commonly used in commercial applications. I guess since we don't have to worry about pointers in them they have to go too though *sigh* and I really loved LISP and Haskell.
If colleges are not teaching the theoretical aspects of Computer Science there might be a problem. If you could actually get through a 4 year CS program doing nothing but wiring together Java libraries, there might be a problem. Using Java to teach basic object oriented programming concepts is fine, a much better alternative than the bastard child of object orientedness that is C++. I think they might be better off using something like Smalltalk, but if not that, Java is a fine alternative to C++.
Books are about as sensitive to water/rain/mist/fog as this likely is (assuming this is about as sensitive as a laptop). Water and Rain can ruin books just as easily if not more so than electronic devices. Mist and fog is iffy in both cases.
As far as harder to see in bright sunlight goes, maybe, I havn't used the thing. However the flipside would be it is easier to see in dark conditions (ever been a car passanger at night, wanted to read, but can't since you can't turn the interior light on?)
Myself, I much prefer the feel of a book, but certainly I can see how this would be easier to read in some cases.
It depends on how the state has it set up. Generally, when you are voting for "Candidate A" or Candidate B", you are actually voting for which set of electors are sent to the Electoral College. So there is a slate of electors pledged to vote for "Candidate A" and another slate to vote for "Candidate B". The key thing is these are different people, there isn't a single set of electors that vote however the state vote went, a different set is sent depending on who won.
That is actually what you are voting for on election day by the way. Ballots typically make it look like you are voting for a candidate, but you are actually voting for slates of electors pledged to a candidate.
This is pretty much irrelavent though isn't it?
Lets say I don't use VS. I write an addin that creates a "fake" Add-In Manager allowing any normal Add-In to be loaded.
Have I broken the EULA? No.
Lets say I used VS.NET Express to make it, did I violate the EULA? No.
Lets say I USE the add-in with VS.NET Express, did I violate the EULA? YES.
Only the USER of the add-in can violate the EULA, not someone who DEVELOPED it.
And that is a problem with society which should be addressed. It doesn't give those authorities the right to flout the law in order to "cover their asses"
The sad thing is, BeOS always had the underpinnings necessary to be Multiuser, just never had it implemented for the users.
In fact people have written login apps that at least allowed Windows XP style Multiuser, where only one user is logged in at a time. This requires some interesting hacks since the home directory which stores all user specific files needs to be recopied from user directories each time someone different logs in.
However there is full support of filesystem and process level security, and you can make users with non-root priveleges technically. Hopefully future incarnations of the OS will deal with this issue, the framework for multiuser is there, but it needs some work.
Autodesk sucks! When I was upgrading the Facilities department to XP from NT4 I ran into major problems with Architectural Desktop. Aparently it opens HKLM\Software for writing in the registry, thus causing it to barf when run by a Limited User account. The thing that really pissed me off though, was that I didn't just have to change permissions on a sub-key of HKLM\Software, but on HKLM\Software ifself. Autodesk said it wasn't their problem, and we should make the users Local Administrators.... And of course this was after Facilities had purchased the Architectural Desktop upgrade which was "Windows XP Compatible"
I used to do this in college too, easily getting by with a couple hours sleep a night. Weird thing is though that I simply can't do it anymore. I'm only 24, but if I try to stay up 24, 36, or 48 hours at a time (which was no sweat in college) I simply can't keep my eyes open, no matter how active I try to keep my brain. I could work more than 40 hours a week easily, but crunches where you simply work continuously for more than a day are physically impossible for me now.
Well, this is just a shot in the dark, but I'm pretty sure they would at least be able to track the printer to the point-of-sale. Based on the unique serial they could find out which distributer a company had sold the printer to, and which store the distributor had sold the printer to. Now it is just a matter of time, if the authorities come knockin' before the security tapes for the store have been recycled, wiped, or otherwise destroyed, they will at least have a good idea of what you look like.
Wish I had mod points. This is correct these people do these things to get more visitors to their pages and generate more ad revenue. I have never in 10 years come across a peice of pedophilia on the internet, which leads me to think its something you would really have to actually look for, not something that pops up by accident. Now normal porn on the other hand.....
Ahh but see you can finance these TV's, I know of very few people who actually buy these things outright, since they are so expensive. Myself I'll wait until they come into the sub-500 dollar price range and I can just buy one outright.
Contracts in the USA don't have to be written or signed except in certain cases (on a state by state basis) governed by the Statute of Frauds.
Lets see if I can remember: All contracts dealing with real estate must be in writing. All contracts for the sale of goods exceeding $500 Marraige contracts Arghh! I know there are more but those are all I can think of. It should also be pointed out that this doesn't mean you necessarily have to sign something. For example a sales receipt is perfectly valid, both parties don't have to sign it to form a contract.
Contract Law is quite a fun subject actually, and I suggest anyone in college take it.
Sorry, but I'm talking about definitions here, a democracy by definition can be representative. As was said, purely direct democracies don't work at large scales, so countries use representative ones.
No, the US is a Democracy and a Republic. The two terms are not mutually exclusive. We are a represantative democracy, in that the populous votes for individuals to vote on the actual laws. We are a republic because our chief executive is elected, although not directly.
You are correct that a Direct Democracy doesn't scale very well, but representative ones seem to scale pretty large.
I think you are missing the point, no matter what the lawyer for the company says, they were engageing in racketeering! They were sending popups, to convince you to buy their popup blocking software. If a telemarketer was constantly calling to sell you a service to stop telemarketers it would be the same freakin thing.
IWF doesn't just put the submitted sites on its blacklist, that would be ripe for abuse. People report it when they accidentally or through malware come across illegal porn, and then submit a report to IWF. Then IWF investigates it and if they find the same thing, it is put on the blacklist.
Yeah, I seem to remember one of the networks (I think it was NBC) coming out with 3 Olypmpics dedicated cable channels in the early 90's. They were a HORRIBLE economic venture, losing so much money I think it made the news.
The only major problem I currently have with the electoral college system is 1. There are real human electors and 2. Almost every state uses an all or nothing system to determine the electors to send.
I think each state getting #ofRepresentative + 2 "votes" for president is a good thing, however I think that it shouldn't be all or nothing. Perhaps each district within a state would determine their particular "vote" and the extra two would go to the candidate that wins the statewide popular vote.
I've always found that if you want a long warranty for some reason, you don't shop at Best Buy, but at smaller chains. When I bought my first TV (I think it was at a place called REX) they wanted to sell me a ten year warranty, but when I said "I think I'm just gonna shop around a little more" they gave me the 10 yr at no extra charge. Of course I didn't really want the ten year, but it did turn out that it was nice to have something over the default 3 yr. When I had the TV for 4 years, discolorations started showing up on the screen, so I took it back and got a new one with no hassle whatsoever.
Another good thing to get extended warranties on is speakers....at least if you are a Fraternity. Our speakers probably got blown once every two years if we were lucky. Stupid people would get into the music room, get past the wooden panel nailed over the 5000 watt amp, and mess with it, when the two speakers are NOT designed to handle the maximum output of the thing. But everytime they busted, we were able to get them fixed under the warranty (of course I don't think the music store ever wants to sell us a set of speakers again, when the warranty runs out.)
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Except consideration doesn't have to be monetary. It becomes more murky, but consideration of the form "I grant you the right to use this, in consideration of which, any redistribution you do must also be under the GPL, and you must make the source available". Offer -> Your copyright work and the source therof Acceptace -> The other person downloading and using your work Consideration -> The requirement that any derivation of your work be GPL'd It is subtle, but I think it would fly in court. You might ask "Well then what about people who don't redistribute?" Well, copyright has nothing to do with them once they have received their copy, so as long as they don't redistribute, the contractual obligations of the GPL don't even apply to them.
Not necessarily. If you take the legal position that a license agreement is a contract, the author simply can't unilaterally revoke the license. "revoking" the license is essentially a modification of the contract, and has to be agreed to by both parties. Now, one party can try to claim to contract is voided, but then it is up to them to show it legally is, in court.
Why the focus on Java? Because it hides low level execution details? Well, those are important to learn. But if you are taking an Algorithms course, why should you need to take the time to worry about platform specific execution details? Shouldn't you be more focused on the general applicability of the algorithm itself? I am curious what this guy would want used. Maybe all introductory courses should be in various assembly languages? Make sure those freshman have a good understanding of how the machine is actually doing stuff, who needs high level language abstractions! He complains about students not knowing what a compiler does, but frankly, I don't recall any of my introductory courses( in C) teaching any specifics of what the compiler did. I learned that in a class....devoted...to...compilers. Should universities no longer teach any functional programming either? After all, functional languages are very high level, and not even commonly used in commercial applications. I guess since we don't have to worry about pointers in them they have to go too though *sigh* and I really loved LISP and Haskell. If colleges are not teaching the theoretical aspects of Computer Science there might be a problem. If you could actually get through a 4 year CS program doing nothing but wiring together Java libraries, there might be a problem. Using Java to teach basic object oriented programming concepts is fine, a much better alternative than the bastard child of object orientedness that is C++. I think they might be better off using something like Smalltalk, but if not that, Java is a fine alternative to C++.
Public transportation.... club!? Seriously??
Books are about as sensitive to water/rain/mist/fog as this likely is (assuming this is about as sensitive as a laptop). Water and Rain can ruin books just as easily if not more so than electronic devices. Mist and fog is iffy in both cases. As far as harder to see in bright sunlight goes, maybe, I havn't used the thing. However the flipside would be it is easier to see in dark conditions (ever been a car passanger at night, wanted to read, but can't since you can't turn the interior light on?) Myself, I much prefer the feel of a book, but certainly I can see how this would be easier to read in some cases.
It depends on how the state has it set up. Generally, when you are voting for "Candidate A" or Candidate B", you are actually voting for which set of electors are sent to the Electoral College. So there is a slate of electors pledged to vote for "Candidate A" and another slate to vote for "Candidate B". The key thing is these are different people, there isn't a single set of electors that vote however the state vote went, a different set is sent depending on who won. That is actually what you are voting for on election day by the way. Ballots typically make it look like you are voting for a candidate, but you are actually voting for slates of electors pledged to a candidate.
This is pretty much irrelavent though isn't it? Lets say I don't use VS. I write an addin that creates a "fake" Add-In Manager allowing any normal Add-In to be loaded. Have I broken the EULA? No. Lets say I used VS.NET Express to make it, did I violate the EULA? No. Lets say I USE the add-in with VS.NET Express, did I violate the EULA? YES. Only the USER of the add-in can violate the EULA, not someone who DEVELOPED it.
And that is a problem with society which should be addressed. It doesn't give those authorities the right to flout the law in order to "cover their asses"
The sad thing is, BeOS always had the underpinnings necessary to be Multiuser, just never had it implemented for the users.
In fact people have written login apps that at least allowed Windows XP style Multiuser, where only one user is logged in at a time. This requires some interesting hacks since the home directory which stores all user specific files needs to be recopied from user directories each time someone different logs in.
However there is full support of filesystem and process level security, and you can make users with non-root priveleges technically. Hopefully future incarnations of the OS will deal with this issue, the framework for multiuser is there, but it needs some work.
Autodesk sucks! When I was upgrading the Facilities department to XP from NT4 I ran into major problems with Architectural Desktop. Aparently it opens HKLM\Software for writing in the registry, thus causing it to barf when run by a Limited User account. The thing that really pissed me off though, was that I didn't just have to change permissions on a sub-key of HKLM\Software, but on HKLM\Software ifself. Autodesk said it wasn't their problem, and we should make the users Local Administrators.... And of course this was after Facilities had purchased the Architectural Desktop upgrade which was "Windows XP Compatible"
Grrrr, still pisses me off to this day.
I used to do this in college too, easily getting by with a couple hours sleep a night. Weird thing is though that I simply can't do it anymore. I'm only 24, but if I try to stay up 24, 36, or 48 hours at a time (which was no sweat in college) I simply can't keep my eyes open, no matter how active I try to keep my brain. I could work more than 40 hours a week easily, but crunches where you simply work continuously for more than a day are physically impossible for me now.
Well, this is just a shot in the dark, but I'm pretty sure they would at least be able to track the printer to the point-of-sale. Based on the unique serial they could find out which distributer a company had sold the printer to, and which store the distributor had sold the printer to. Now it is just a matter of time, if the authorities come knockin' before the security tapes for the store have been recycled, wiped, or otherwise destroyed, they will at least have a good idea of what you look like.
Wish I had mod points. This is correct these people do these things to get more visitors to their pages and generate more ad revenue. I have never in 10 years come across a peice of pedophilia on the internet, which leads me to think its something you would really have to actually look for, not something that pops up by accident. Now normal porn on the other hand.....
Ahh but see you can finance these TV's, I know of very few people who actually buy these things outright, since they are so expensive. Myself I'll wait until they come into the sub-500 dollar price range and I can just buy one outright.
Why is this silly? From actually reading the patent it seems perfectly valid and the sort of thing that patents are SUPPOSED to be used for.
Contracts in the USA don't have to be written or signed except in certain cases (on a state by state basis) governed by the Statute of Frauds.
Lets see if I can remember:
All contracts dealing with real estate must be in writing.
All contracts for the sale of goods exceeding $500
Marraige contracts
Arghh! I know there are more but those are all I can think of. It should also be pointed out that this doesn't mean you necessarily have to sign something. For example a sales receipt is perfectly valid, both parties don't have to sign it to form a contract.
Contract Law is quite a fun subject actually, and I suggest anyone in college take it.
Sorry, but I'm talking about definitions here, a democracy by definition can be representative. As was said, purely direct democracies don't work at large scales, so countries use representative ones.
No, the US is a Democracy and a Republic.
The two terms are not mutually exclusive.
We are a represantative democracy, in that the populous votes for individuals to vote on the actual laws. We are a republic because our chief executive is elected, although not directly.
You are correct that a Direct Democracy doesn't scale very well, but representative ones seem to scale pretty large.
I think you are missing the point, no matter what the lawyer for the company says, they were engageing in racketeering! They were sending popups, to convince you to buy their popup blocking software. If a telemarketer was constantly calling to sell you a service to stop telemarketers it would be the same freakin thing.
IWF doesn't just put the submitted sites on its blacklist, that would be ripe for abuse. People report it when they accidentally or through malware come across illegal porn, and then submit a report to IWF. Then IWF investigates it and if they find the same thing, it is put on the blacklist.
Yeah, I seem to remember one of the networks (I think it was NBC) coming out with 3 Olypmpics dedicated cable channels in the early 90's. They were a HORRIBLE economic venture, losing so much money I think it made the news.
This is perhaps the thing I like best about MS's migration to .Net. I HATE HATE HATE the registry.
#ofRepresentative + 2 "votes" = # Representatives + # of senators :)
I know, I just thought it went without saying
The only major problem I currently have with the electoral college system is 1. There are real human electors and 2. Almost every state uses an all or nothing system to determine the electors to send.
I think each state getting #ofRepresentative + 2 "votes" for president is a good thing, however I think that it shouldn't be all or nothing. Perhaps each district within a state would determine their particular "vote" and the extra two would go to the candidate that wins the statewide popular vote.
I've always found that if you want a long warranty for some reason, you don't shop at Best Buy, but at smaller chains. When I bought my first TV (I think it was at a place called REX) they wanted to sell me a ten year warranty, but when I said "I think I'm just gonna shop around a little more" they gave me the 10 yr at no extra charge. Of course I didn't really want the ten year, but it did turn out that it was nice to have something over the default 3 yr. When I had the TV for 4 years, discolorations started showing up on the screen, so I took it back and got a new one with no hassle whatsoever.
Another good thing to get extended warranties on is speakers....at least if you are a Fraternity. Our speakers probably got blown once every two years if we were lucky. Stupid people would get into the music room, get past the wooden panel nailed over the 5000 watt amp, and mess with it, when the two speakers are NOT designed to handle the maximum output of the thing. But everytime they busted, we were able to get them fixed under the warranty (of course I don't think the music store ever wants to sell us a set of speakers again, when the warranty runs out.)