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"'Along with Hollywood and the recording industry, we have become increasingly concerned about the level of copyright infringement inherent in the free peer-to-peer file swapping services,' Prast said."
If this is true, why would they want to use a brand name that was almost entirely devoted to copyright violation?
>>EvanED, netringer and I have all read Feynman's autobiographical books, "Surely you are joking Mr Feynman", and "What do you care what other people think." And I am sure I speak for the other two that the rest of you should pick these books up, if you haven't done so already.
I've read both when I got them from a library; both are on my 'buy' list.:)
>>Those two books were written by Feynman's young protege Ralph Lieghton.
But they were transcripts of what Feynman said, right? At least that's the impression I got was.
>>There is a third book about a plan Feynman and Leighton had to go to Tuva.
This I haven't seen. What's it called?
>>I don't care if Feynman was maneuvered by General Kutnya. This doesn't undermine my sense of his courage and character. Rather that he could realize and acknowledge that Kutnya did drop some broad hints adds to my sense of his character.
My point wasn't to say that Feynman was outmaneuvered, just to lay additional credit where it's due. It was still Feynman's idea of how to present it, for example. If I came across as trying to drive credit away from Feynman I'd just like to say that this was not my intention in the least.
On a different thought, I haven't seen Infinity. Is it worth it? Is it something, say, Blockbuster would have?
True, but Rogers pretty much ended that interview immediatly afterwords by saying something along the lines of 'we'll be looking at weather some other time.' Either that or any intervening testimony was stricken from the official transcript, which seems unlikely because they probably would have stricken Feynman's original lines as well. So while he wasn't cut off per se, you get the sense from reading the transcript that he kind of wishes that he could have expounded on what he said. I believe he mentions this explicitly in What Do You Care...
>>Feynman said in his last book that he was led to the demonstration by the nose with subtle hints from Major Donald Kutnya, who ran space shuttle program for the Air Force.
Absolutely correct. In fact, I should have mentioned this in my first post. Kutyna was told by NASA engineers about their suspicions that blow-by in the O-rings, partially due to the cold weather, caused the explosion. Neither the engineers nor Kutyna could reveal their thoughts without fear of being fired, so Kutyna hinted to Feynman about what he had heard from the engineers, and Feynman took it from there.
I agree somewhat. Personally, I think people should be paid by output, but that's difficult to measure. You do twice as much, or the same amount twice as good? You get paid twice as much. In this case, I fully agree with what you say.
However, I don't completely agree with what you said if you're paid by the hour. Now, a little fooling around never hurt anyone as long as they are productive anyway, but if I were a manager/etc. and I'm paying you $x per hour, I think I should be able to expect you to be working for almost all of the time I'm paying you for.
Let's just say that Feynman was more independent than the others...
He also wrote a section which was going to be included in the actual report, but he got fed up with revisions the commission was making to it, so they compromised and added it as an appendix (Appendix F to be precise).
There was a time where he demonstrated the effect of coldness on the rubber during a inquiry. He was cut off from following through on it during the conference, but the press picked up on it afterword, and it made it onto the front page of the NY Times the next day, with Feynman's picture where the article continues inside.
I'd post a video of this if I had one, but I'm not sure if one exists. I did an extensive [for high school] report (~35 pg) on the Challenger during which I went through about 4 hours of documentaries. While Feynman's experiment was mentioned - with a demonstration in one of the documentaries by the professor in charge of the video - none had the actual clip. I tried practically every video source I could get my hands on for free (mainly from Penn State's library system). I'd think the Nat'l Archives would have it, but I can't see why they would do a demonsration of what Feynman did instead of showing the actual clip when they had no shortage of other clips from the inquiry.
If you'd like to read about his contribution, "What Do You Care What Other People Think" has his account of the investigation in the third part of the book. It's short, and is a quick and immenesely enjoyable and hilarious read.
If you'd like to read his appendix, NASA has it on it's Challenger site. As I don't feel like dealing with paragraphing, I won't make these links: NASA's page for Challenger stuff in general: http://history.nasa.gov/sts51l.html
The Report Feynman helped author: http://history.nasa.gov/rogersrep/51lcove r.htm
And specifically Appendix F: http://history.nasa.gov/rogersrep/v2appf.htm The transcript from Feynman's experiment: http://history.nasa.gov/rogersrep/v4p art4.htm (scroll down to page 679)
I'll also add that VB was, at least for me, extremely useful for getting the concepts of an event driven basis rather than a procedural one. I'm convinced it made transitioning to programming Windows stuff in C/C++ much less painful for me than anyone says programming Windows is. So I think it's a good intermediate language where you can learn these concepts witout having to go to the low level of defining a window class, registering it, instancing it, then either responding to WM_PAINT or creating the code to create controls on the form, etc.
>>most of us dont need the damn hungarian notation that MS has spreads like gospel truth
Why said anything about that? And besides, MS now discourages its use.
>>It makes for unreadable names that convey less meaning that a nice clear variable name.
Which 'fn' is not but 'FirstName' is.
Now, if you have a dynamically generated page, you could use constants that are set to short stuff like 'fn'. Less code to be transmitted while still keeping most of the readability of the original code. If you discover a bug, temporarily switch to a different set of constants ('FirstName' instead of 'fn') until you sort it out so the resultant HTML is more readable. (Same goes with whitespace: Make a constant ENDL or NEWLINE that is set to '\n' while debugging, then changes to '' for production.)
Actually, the IMDB had a story about Episode II in which they also mentioned that Apollo 13 is going to be released on Sept. 20. (Which doesn't mean that theaters will start running it then.)
Maddingly though, the closest theater that is scheduled to run it is a good five+ hours away at the Air and Space Museum. Though I certainly wouldn't mind going back, so maybe I'll see if I can get down there. (Apollo 13 is one of my favorite movies, so I would very much like to see it on an Imax screen. And the suggestion someone made of sitting a foot away from the TV is a bad suggestion for a number of reasons. But I'm rambling, so I'll stop.)
>>If their mechanism prevents me from doing that, I don't call that a copy protection scheme.
I don't care what you call it. If you have to DISABLE anything on the chip to run Linux/whatever, that's in violation of the DMCA.
Now, I'm not saying this is right, nor am I saying that if you were brought to court you'd lose. But as implemented, the DMCA would make this illegal.
I should also say that (provided the scheme works correctly) you won't need to disable anything, so it won't be illegal. Linux just wouldn't use the DRM "features" present on the chip.
Except that the above laws WOULD require hardware manufacturers to include DRM technologies. Now, Linux (for example) wouldn't have to use it; like you could run Linux on next gen chips without any problem, but you wouldn't be able to access a lot of content. Unless everyone started using Linux (or probably Macs for that matter) and ignored DRMed content. But I don't think that is too likely. People like new stuff in movies and music. Doesn't matter that most of the classical stuff from the 18th and 19th century is better than most of the stuff now...
I vote making it look consistant with other apps on whatever platform you're running. Most people don't switch between platforms, so making it consitant with what the user is used to is more important. If they do switch, either they are doing work on one and have another at home (in which case only "simple" applications - email, web browser, etc. - are likely to be used on both) or are computer geeks dual booting Windows and Linux or something (in which case they'll figure it out anyhow).
Don't get me wrong, I don't think that developers should go placing commands in different menus on different platforms or something, but I don't think they should even begin to try to make it look ther same on all platforms. Use the Windows tabs on Windows systems, Mac tabs on Macs, X tabs on X, etc.
Exactly. I went to the PA Governor's school for IT two summers ago where I had a course on Human-Computer Interaction, and one of the things we discovered was out of the entire class, no one liked windows auto-sizing like what Apple suggests. I'll agree that the extra space is moderatly annoying, but it's still FAR less annoying than having the window change size on you. Apple is usually better at intuitive UI stuff (the "verb button" suggestion is a very good one and one I'll be using henceforth), but in this case they're wrong.
>>2) they can only call on copyright law if copyrigts are being broken. this guy used the 4 seasons, which i believe is beyond the legal copyright limit. so he's OK.
While the actual Four Seasons MUSIC is public domain by now and thus you can distribute the sheet music freely, recordings thereof are still protected.
Why the hell does everyone scream "DMCA" everywhere... this does not violate the DMCA for two reasons: 1) it's an analog recording 2) there's no copy protection
I'm tired of people jumping around screaming "DMCA" in places where it's totally unjustified./. posters are at least as bad as companies at claiming things are DMCA violations when they aren't. Read the law...
It shouldn't be able to, at least according to some calculations I did when I was in a discussion about the infamous Fox show on this. Now, I did it with the pre-upgraded Hubble, so I don't know how fine the view would be now. I also wouldn't trust anything I cared about to my calculations, which if I remember correctly, put the resolution capability of the Hubble at about a 50 ft square at the moon-earth distance. If there's interest, I could probably repeat the calculations so others can figure out if I did anything right.
The "Programming C#", as well as the "Professional C#" by Wrox mentioned in another post seem to be the two forerunners. Both have very good Amazon reviews, and both have several people who reccomend the other (while for the most part still conceding both are very good). Which you get seems to be more a matter of taste than anything else. If you're wondering, I just got the Wrox press one a couple weeks ago. I picked it because it has a bunch more pages. (Hey; I needed a tie-breaker, and that's a little better than a coin flip.)
I do reccomend the Petzold though. (I got that in the same shipment.) If you're not familiar with Windows Forms and want to do client programming for Windows, you'll almost need it. The Wrox Press book gives an intro on WinFoms (the O'Reilley appears to as well from a listing of topics on Amazon), but if you do any serious development you'll want a dedicated book. (It's expensive though; order it online for a lot less; it's $60 retail, but I paid $42 on Amazon. I believe other OL places have similar deals.)
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Anyone with legal knowledge know if he'll be able to enforce these?
"'Along with Hollywood and the recording industry, we have become increasingly concerned about the level of copyright infringement inherent in the free peer-to-peer file swapping services,' Prast said."
If this is true, why would they want to use a brand name that was almost entirely devoted to copyright violation?
>>EvanED, netringer and I have all read Feynman's autobiographical books, "Surely you are joking Mr Feynman", and "What do you care what other people think." And I am sure I speak for the other two that the rest of you should pick these books up, if you haven't done so already.
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I've read both when I got them from a library; both are on my 'buy' list.
>>Those two books were written by Feynman's young protege Ralph Lieghton.
But they were transcripts of what Feynman said, right? At least that's the impression I got was.
>>There is a third book about a plan Feynman and Leighton had to go to Tuva.
This I haven't seen. What's it called?
>>I don't care if Feynman was maneuvered by General Kutnya. This doesn't undermine my sense of his courage and character. Rather that he could realize and acknowledge that Kutnya did drop some broad hints adds to my sense of his character.
My point wasn't to say that Feynman was outmaneuvered, just to lay additional credit where it's due. It was still Feynman's idea of how to present it, for example. If I came across as trying to drive credit away from Feynman I'd just like to say that this was not my intention in the least.
On a different thought, I haven't seen Infinity. Is it worth it? Is it something, say, Blockbuster would have?
>>He wasn't cut off.
True, but Rogers pretty much ended that interview immediatly afterwords by saying something along the lines of 'we'll be looking at weather some other time.' Either that or any intervening testimony was stricken from the official transcript, which seems unlikely because they probably would have stricken Feynman's original lines as well. So while he wasn't cut off per se, you get the sense from reading the transcript that he kind of wishes that he could have expounded on what he said. I believe he mentions this explicitly in What Do You Care...
>>Feynman said in his last book that he was led to the demonstration by the nose with subtle hints from Major Donald Kutnya, who ran space shuttle program for the Air Force.
Absolutely correct. In fact, I should have mentioned this in my first post. Kutyna was told by NASA engineers about their suspicions that blow-by in the O-rings, partially due to the cold weather, caused the explosion. Neither the engineers nor Kutyna could reveal their thoughts without fear of being fired, so Kutyna hinted to Feynman about what he had heard from the engineers, and Feynman took it from there.
I agree somewhat. Personally, I think people should be paid by output, but that's difficult to measure. You do twice as much, or the same amount twice as good? You get paid twice as much. In this case, I fully agree with what you say.
However, I don't completely agree with what you said if you're paid by the hour. Now, a little fooling around never hurt anyone as long as they are productive anyway, but if I were a manager/etc. and I'm paying you $x per hour, I think I should be able to expect you to be working for almost all of the time I'm paying you for.
Let's just say that Feynman was more independent than the others...
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He also wrote a section which was going to be included in the actual report, but he got fed up with revisions the commission was making to it, so they compromised and added it as an appendix (Appendix F to be precise).
There was a time where he demonstrated the effect of coldness on the rubber during a inquiry. He was cut off from following through on it during the conference, but the press picked up on it afterword, and it made it onto the front page of the NY Times the next day, with Feynman's picture where the article continues inside.
I'd post a video of this if I had one, but I'm not sure if one exists. I did an extensive [for high school] report (~35 pg) on the Challenger during which I went through about 4 hours of documentaries. While Feynman's experiment was mentioned - with a demonstration in one of the documentaries by the professor in charge of the video - none had the actual clip. I tried practically every video source I could get my hands on for free (mainly from Penn State's library system). I'd think the Nat'l Archives would have it, but I can't see why they would do a demonsration of what Feynman did instead of showing the actual clip when they had no shortage of other clips from the inquiry.
If you'd like to read about his contribution, "What Do You Care What Other People Think" has his account of the investigation in the third part of the book. It's short, and is a quick and immenesely enjoyable and hilarious read.
If you'd like to read his appendix, NASA has it on it's Challenger site. As I don't feel like dealing with paragraphing, I won't make these links:
NASA's page for Challenger stuff in general:
http://history.nasa.gov/sts51l.html
The Report Feynman helped author:
http://history.nasa.gov/rogersrep/51lcov
And specifically Appendix F:
http://history.nasa.gov/rogersrep/v2appf.htm
The transcript from Feynman's experiment:
http://history.nasa.gov/rogersrep/v4
I'll also add that VB was, at least for me, extremely useful for getting the concepts of an event driven basis rather than a procedural one. I'm convinced it made transitioning to programming Windows stuff in C/C++ much less painful for me than anyone says programming Windows is. So I think it's a good intermediate language where you can learn these concepts witout having to go to the low level of defining a window class, registering it, instancing it, then either responding to WM_PAINT or creating the code to create controls on the form, etc.
If they patent stuff, we'll still have what we do now.
>>most of us dont need the damn hungarian notation that MS has spreads like gospel truth
Why said anything about that? And besides, MS now discourages its use.
>>It makes for unreadable names that convey less meaning that a nice clear variable name.
Which 'fn' is not but 'FirstName' is.
Now, if you have a dynamically generated page, you could use constants that are set to short stuff like 'fn'. Less code to be transmitted while still keeping most of the readability of the original code. If you discover a bug, temporarily switch to a different set of constants ('FirstName' instead of 'fn') until you sort it out so the resultant HTML is more readable. (Same goes with whitespace: Make a constant ENDL or NEWLINE that is set to '\n' while debugging, then changes to '' for production.)
Hmmm... I didn't notice the lines... perhaps it was the projector screen you saw it on?
...and you think the US is the only place with a DMCA type law? (I don't know about outside the US and Europe)
And Bush's niece with her cocaine
Actually, the IMDB had a story about Episode II in which they also mentioned that Apollo 13 is going to be released on Sept. 20. (Which doesn't mean that theaters will start running it then.)
Maddingly though, the closest theater that is scheduled to run it is a good five+ hours away at the Air and Space Museum. Though I certainly wouldn't mind going back, so maybe I'll see if I can get down there. (Apollo 13 is one of my favorite movies, so I would very much like to see it on an Imax screen. And the suggestion someone made of sitting a foot away from the TV is a bad suggestion for a number of reasons. But I'm rambling, so I'll stop.)
>>If their mechanism prevents me from doing that, I don't call that a copy protection scheme.
I don't care what you call it. If you have to DISABLE anything on the chip to run Linux/whatever, that's in violation of the DMCA.
Now, I'm not saying this is right, nor am I saying that if you were brought to court you'd lose. But as implemented, the DMCA would make this illegal.
I should also say that (provided the scheme works correctly) you won't need to disable anything, so it won't be illegal. Linux just wouldn't use the DRM "features" present on the chip.
When is Apollo 13 being released? And what parts were edited? Swearing or what?
Of course, if you listen to most critics, the original three sucked as well.
You will if you have to disable any copy protection schemes in order to run Linux...
Except that the above laws WOULD require hardware manufacturers to include DRM technologies. Now, Linux (for example) wouldn't have to use it; like you could run Linux on next gen chips without any problem, but you wouldn't be able to access a lot of content. Unless everyone started using Linux (or probably Macs for that matter) and ignored DRMed content. But I don't think that is too likely. People like new stuff in movies and music. Doesn't matter that most of the classical stuff from the 18th and 19th century is better than most of the stuff now...
Especially if it's the spell checker that is built into Microsoft Word.
I vote making it look consistant with other apps on whatever platform you're running. Most people don't switch between platforms, so making it consitant with what the user is used to is more important. If they do switch, either they are doing work on one and have another at home (in which case only "simple" applications - email, web browser, etc. - are likely to be used on both) or are computer geeks dual booting Windows and Linux or something (in which case they'll figure it out anyhow).
Don't get me wrong, I don't think that developers should go placing commands in different menus on different platforms or something, but I don't think they should even begin to try to make it look ther same on all platforms. Use the Windows tabs on Windows systems, Mac tabs on Macs, X tabs on X, etc.
Exactly. I went to the PA Governor's school for IT two summers ago where I had a course on Human-Computer Interaction, and one of the things we discovered was out of the entire class, no one liked windows auto-sizing like what Apple suggests. I'll agree that the extra space is moderatly annoying, but it's still FAR less annoying than having the window change size on you. Apple is usually better at intuitive UI stuff (the "verb button" suggestion is a very good one and one I'll be using henceforth), but in this case they're wrong.
>>2) they can only call on copyright law if copyrigts are being broken. this guy used the 4 seasons, which i believe is beyond the legal copyright limit. so he's OK.
While the actual Four Seasons MUSIC is public domain by now and thus you can distribute the sheet music freely, recordings thereof are still protected.
Why the hell does everyone scream "DMCA" everywhere... this does not violate the DMCA for two reasons:
/. posters are at least as bad as companies at claiming things are DMCA violations when they aren't. Read the law...
1) it's an analog recording
2) there's no copy protection
I'm tired of people jumping around screaming "DMCA" in places where it's totally unjustified.
It shouldn't be able to, at least according to some calculations I did when I was in a discussion about the infamous Fox show on this. Now, I did it with the pre-upgraded Hubble, so I don't know how fine the view would be now. I also wouldn't trust anything I cared about to my calculations, which if I remember correctly, put the resolution capability of the Hubble at about a 50 ft square at the moon-earth distance. If there's interest, I could probably repeat the calculations so others can figure out if I did anything right.
The "Programming C#", as well as the "Professional C#" by Wrox mentioned in another post seem to be the two forerunners. Both have very good Amazon reviews, and both have several people who reccomend the other (while for the most part still conceding both are very good). Which you get seems to be more a matter of taste than anything else. If you're wondering, I just got the Wrox press one a couple weeks ago. I picked it because it has a bunch more pages. (Hey; I needed a tie-breaker, and that's a little better than a coin flip.)
I do reccomend the Petzold though. (I got that in the same shipment.) If you're not familiar with Windows Forms and want to do client programming for Windows, you'll almost need it. The Wrox Press book gives an intro on WinFoms (the O'Reilley appears to as well from a listing of topics on Amazon), but if you do any serious development you'll want a dedicated book. (It's expensive though; order it online for a lot less; it's $60 retail, but I paid $42 on Amazon. I believe other OL places have similar deals.)