J.K. Rowling went from being on the dole to being richer than the Queen in under ten years.
In the meantime, if copyright laws were not so strict, other writers would be able to get off welfare to decent living by writing additional stories in Harry Potter universe. In time, some of them would build up their reputation and publish further books unrelated to Harry Potter. UK would have a thousand new good writers, J.K. Rowling would still be doing well and British people would avoid the embarrassment of having a few books valued more than a thousand years of tradition.
Why else would a country enact laws against the interests of both country's population and its future economic power? I can see limited term copyright laws being beneficial in Russia, but only with exemptions for income levels and educational use. How does anyone benefit from a kid being computer illiterate because his parents one year salary still can not buy Vista, Office and Photoshop? If one day oil cartel countries force US women to wear burkas, you will know how that feels. Stop mucking with democratically chosen laws of sovereign nations.
Our IT group has not setup a secure data exchange. They also don't report to my boss. They report to a high level VP 5 levels removed, to whom my request will not register on the radar, of it does, it will be a new service with half a year deployment schedule. In the meantime, if I don't get a new build to customer and screw up an $10M deal, it WILL be noticed by high level management, who will promptly fire me and reprimand my boss. In the end, if you are given a job, you will be held responsible for its success.
Translation of your comment: "resign or get fired from a big company". If you go through proper channels, it will take months for someone to get to your request and reject it - because they don't understand your work and why you need this functionality. In the meantime, your boss will see that you have done nothing and dismiss you. Your management sees the results, not how you achieved them, and couldn't care less about complaint from an IT guy.
As a totalitarian admin, what secure method of sending corporate data to a customer behind another firewall do you support?
Just because some kiddies think that The Man has too much control over their hobby doesn't change the ethical right one should have to profit from their invention.
So you don't think one has an ethical right to profit from the knowledge in one's own head? I don't force anyone to disclose their inventions to me, but once they do, surely they don't have a right to control my thoughts.
I can accept intellectual property as a PRIVILEGE rather than right, but first content creators have to prove that they can benefit the society by making their work public domain in a reasonable time and not attacking independent inventions that happen to involve a similar concept. I don't know of a single software patent holder who meets these standards.
What advantage Java provides in memory safety and garbage collection is lost in the lack of local destructors. A method can put stuff in a temporary data structure or open a limited resource and then throw an exception without cleaning things up. finally blocks are not so hot when you have 20 things to cleanup in nested block structure. In fact, Java memory licks are quite common and tougher to debug than good C++ code. Someone should wake up and come up with a language that has memory safety AND support for writing concise, readable code.
This bug just crashes the machine. Anyone who uses a desktop or notebook knows that crashes happen from time to time, regardless of the OS. There is no known way to run attacker's code, and TFA suggests that there is unlikely to be one.
Just for the sake of this discussion: If I have two lamps - one in my den and the other in the bedroom - and only one light bulb, would it be acceptable for me to clone another light bulb so I can have light in both places?
And why not? Inventor of the light bulb has been compensated for his work long time ago. Now light bulbs are in public domain and you can make unlimited copies if you have the right equipment. And so it should be with DVDs 14 years after they are released.
I mean, I can see the benefits. You can find out where your wandering spouse is spending the night. AND people think you are happy to see them, especially if you extend the antenna.
You can write an operating system in an hour if all it does is load from a boot sector and play/usr/games/moo. Its making it attractive to modern computer users that takes a while.
Are you saying non-technical people who have something to offer to the world shouldn't be able to get their message out on Internet? Let them run the service. If there are problems, geek squid can come and exterminate the malware.
We don't get to vote for economic policy, we only get to vote for candidates who are generally uneducated in the same. The best we can do is check academic credentials of each candidate, which doesn't require knowing the subject ourselves. We are just too lazy to do any work for an educated vote and prefer to get our election information from oil industry commercials. Once these little difficulties resolved, less than 2% of population working as journalists or in public advocacy groups will explain to us the basic impact of competing proposals.
Your job market is not so great if the only application of your skills is teaching these skills to others. Its another version of a pyramid scheme - only one of math students will be able to take over your job when you retire.
Well, a couple of years should be enough to identify students who have ability and inclination to study science. Are you going to tell me "No child left behind" thingy is doing society any service by making mentally disabled students solve equations rather than work on independent living and anger management skills? Furthermore, a society where everyone knows how to show up at work on time, balance their checkbook and solve marital problems will have much more opportunities and less danger for talented individuals. Most importantly, I am not forcing my kid to make any sacrifices to "the society". She can just learn how to live a happy life.
98% of population only need to know how to calculate a 15% tip. On the other hand, those with drive and talent learn outside school anyway. Real subjects that should be a priority in school would be:
Basic finance skills - credit card interests, mortage, retirenment planning, investment options and risk assessment. Ok, there is some math here, but highly advanced trig.
Relationship and child raising skills
Social skills such as getting along with people, making a good impression on an interview, basic project management.
Games are getting more and more expensive to produce.
Virtual reality games are getting more and more expensive to produce. They are also getting less and less fun to play because:
Reality is messy and it takes too much time to do things.
People play games to escape from reality
Cartoon graphics looks nice
The plot is trivial because all costs go to graphics and its hard to potray interesting things in photorealistic way
All other kind of games - puzzle, scrolling shooter, non-VR roleplaying - are getting cheaper and cheaper to produce with availability of high level languages and graphics tools. It's time for someone to realize that a 3D FPS is not the only kind of game, just as e-mail and word processor are not the only possible applications.
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J.K. Rowling went from being on the dole to being richer than the Queen in under ten years.
In the meantime, if copyright laws were not so strict, other writers would be able to get off welfare to decent living by writing additional stories in Harry Potter universe. In time, some of them would build up their reputation and publish further books unrelated to Harry Potter. UK would have a thousand new good writers, J.K. Rowling would still be doing well and British people would avoid the embarrassment of having a few books valued more than a thousand years of tradition.
How are harmful laws ever going to get changed if ordinary citizens are apathetic and do not try to protest or resist their implementation?
You don't consider the right to study and know history to be a fundamental human right, not subject to restriction from the governments?
Why else would a country enact laws against the interests of both country's population and its future economic power? I can see limited term copyright laws being beneficial in Russia, but only with exemptions for income levels and educational use. How does anyone benefit from a kid being computer illiterate because his parents one year salary still can not buy Vista, Office and Photoshop? If one day oil cartel countries force US women to wear burkas, you will know how that feels. Stop mucking with democratically chosen laws of sovereign nations.
Our IT group has not setup a secure data exchange. They also don't report to my boss. They report to a high level VP 5 levels removed, to whom my request will not register on the radar, of it does, it will be a new service with half a year deployment schedule. In the meantime, if I don't get a new build to customer and screw up an $10M deal, it WILL be noticed by high level management, who will promptly fire me and reprimand my boss. In the end, if you are given a job, you will be held responsible for its success.
1. Helping other people use your copyrighted material (cliff's notes, google search)
2. Historical research: wayback machine
Translation of your comment: "resign or get fired from a big company". If you go through proper channels, it will take months for someone to get to your request and reject it - because they don't understand your work and why you need this functionality. In the meantime, your boss will see that you have done nothing and dismiss you. Your management sees the results, not how you achieved them, and couldn't care less about complaint from an IT guy.
As a totalitarian admin, what secure method of sending corporate data to a customer behind another firewall do you support?
Godwin!
Just because some kiddies think that The Man has too much control over their hobby doesn't change the ethical right one should have to profit from their invention.
So you don't think one has an ethical right to profit from the knowledge in one's own head? I don't force anyone to disclose their inventions to me, but once they do, surely they don't have a right to control my thoughts.
I can accept intellectual property as a PRIVILEGE rather than right, but first content creators have to prove that they can benefit the society by making their work public domain in a reasonable time and not attacking independent inventions that happen to involve a similar concept. I don't know of a single software patent holder who meets these standards.
What advantage Java provides in memory safety and garbage collection is lost in the lack of local destructors. A method can put stuff in a temporary data structure or open a limited resource and then throw an exception without cleaning things up. finally blocks are not so hot when you have 20 things to cleanup in nested block structure. In fact, Java memory licks are quite common and tougher to debug than good C++ code. Someone should wake up and come up with a language that has memory safety AND support for writing concise, readable code.
This bug just crashes the machine. Anyone who uses a desktop or notebook knows that crashes happen from time to time, regardless of the OS. There is no known way to run attacker's code, and TFA suggests that there is unlikely to be one.
Just for the sake of this discussion: If I have two lamps - one in my den and the other in the bedroom - and only one light bulb, would it be acceptable for me to clone another light bulb so I can have light in both places?
And why not? Inventor of the light bulb has been compensated for his work long time ago. Now light bulbs are in public domain and you can make unlimited copies if you have the right equipment. And so it should be with DVDs 14 years after they are released.
I mean, I can see the benefits. You can find out where your wandering spouse is spending the night. AND people think you are happy to see them, especially if you extend the antenna.
You can write an operating system in an hour if all it does is load from a boot sector and play /usr/games/moo. Its making it attractive to modern computer users that takes a while.
Yeah, you can get by with a small hard disk. However, if you only have a floppy disk, you are in trouble no matter how you use it.
Are you saying non-technical people who have something to offer to the world shouldn't be able to get their message out on Internet? Let them run the service. If there are problems, geek squid can come and exterminate the malware.
We don't get to vote for economic policy, we only get to vote for candidates who are generally uneducated in the same. The best we can do is check academic credentials of each candidate, which doesn't require knowing the subject ourselves. We are just too lazy to do any work for an educated vote and prefer to get our election information from oil industry commercials. Once these little difficulties resolved, less than 2% of population working as journalists or in public advocacy groups will explain to us the basic impact of competing proposals.
Your job market is not so great if the only application of your skills is teaching these skills to others. Its another version of a pyramid scheme - only one of math students will be able to take over your job when you retire.
they are about learning to think abstractly which can help students in most aspects of thier lives.
Which aspects would that be?
What kind of high paying job are you going to land with your work on Riemann's theorem?
Well, a couple of years should be enough to identify students who have ability and inclination to study science. Are you going to tell me "No child left behind" thingy is doing society any service by making mentally disabled students solve equations rather than work on independent living and anger management skills? Furthermore, a society where everyone knows how to show up at work on time, balance their checkbook and solve marital problems will have much more opportunities and less danger for talented individuals. Most importantly, I am not forcing my kid to make any sacrifices to "the society". She can just learn how to live a happy life.
Virtual reality games are getting more and more expensive to produce. They are also getting less and less fun to play because:
All other kind of games - puzzle, scrolling shooter, non-VR roleplaying - are getting cheaper and cheaper to produce with availability of high level languages and graphics tools. It's time for someone to realize that a 3D FPS is not the only kind of game, just as e-mail and word processor are not the only possible applications.
Are you saying DHCP is not a result of limitations of IPV4?
iTunes doesn't support sharing over Intenet, only LAN.