> 11.) You all ever think maybe this is getting a little old and it's time to get out?
Go out on top! Or is it too late/early for that?
"Slashdot announces today that they are closing. We have perfected the duplicate post. We apologize to all the nerds who will no longer be able claim that they have a social life."
From the aritcle: "I think it's a very good step to try to find new ways to provide music legally to college students"
Oh that right, college students never obtain music legally.
And just what we need. Yet another fee (YAF) tacked onto tuition. It's bad enough students have to pay for a lot of the crap they don't use anyway. My univiersity added "free" parking my last year. It was made up for in tuition fees. That way, everyone had to pay $50 for the best parking you never got.
Way to go parkig services. Go Penn State! Make all the students pay for music they won't know they're getting. Where's the freedom of speech in that?
I don't think we can fault MS for the "closed architecture" on the Xbox. Nintendo created that standard a long time ago. Every company since has followed that in the (television/portable) video game market. Atari unknowningly had an open arch with the 2600, and that led to the creation of the "third party" software company.
I agree that there shouldn't be a restriction on who gets to do development on a platform. What ever happened to the hobbyist (sp?) XBox dev kit?
I'll preface by saying I have never done your third example. But given that many people learn from similar sources (other than you silly self taught people, wait, that's me too) even non-trivial code will have some similarities. There are only so many ways to handle memory allocation. I'm sure Linux and SCO Unix picked the same way and similarities ensue.
Granted, it could be blanted copying. We don't know. But I'm guessing it's some lines here, some lines there. Sorry if my for loop is the same as yours or I use the same variable naming notation SCO does. That's not a crime. Open source isn't a good place for stealing code.
This sounds like a good Ask Slashdot question: Do you copy code from other projects, and if you do, do you give proper credit? Do you ever break the law while coding (scary thought).
I agree with point 1. Someone somewhere will eventually write lines of code that are exactly like code that has come before it. Have you ever seen an Intro to C class? There are only so many ways to solve the same problem. I wouldn't expect each student to come up with a completely unique solution. (Granted, there was a lot of cheating at my school's Intro to C classes).
Stupid Examples: ---------------- Write a program that calculates the area of a triangle, given the correct inputs.
Write a program that reads a file from the file system an creates an exact copy in a new location.
There are only so many ways to do each of those.
I would say it is safe to say that Linux and Windows share a few common lines of code.
Is this an attempt to battle the smaller, faster KHTML engine that Apple picked? Sounds like the Mozilla gang is a more miffed than previously believed.
The college experience is about choice. Students and professors should be free to choose what platform suits them best.
I used a Unix/Linux machine for all my CS work. I would not have chosen to learn on a Windows machine. Others will chose differently. You must give people the opportunity to make choices, good or bad.
I can see quite a few stick-in-mud professors getting a little angry when you tell them their curriculum. Choice is more important.
If these folks just spent the time playing the game instead of programming a script/scripting engine to play the game, maybe they could have beat it for now.
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> 11.) You all ever think maybe this is getting a little old and it's time to get out?
Go out on top! Or is it too late/early for that?
"Slashdot announces today that they are closing. We have perfected the duplicate post. We apologize to all the nerds who will no longer be able claim that they have a social life."
From the aritcle:
"I think it's a very good step to try to find new ways to provide music legally to college students"
Oh that right, college students never obtain music legally.
And just what we need. Yet another fee (YAF) tacked onto tuition. It's bad enough students have to pay for a lot of the crap they don't use anyway. My univiersity added "free" parking my last year. It was made up for in tuition fees. That way, everyone had to pay $50 for the best parking you never got.
Way to go parkig services. Go Penn State! Make all the students pay for music they won't know they're getting. Where's the freedom of speech in that?
A new language from Microsoft, STF#U!!
Yes, but has anyone found a way to get the Seqway to boot Linux?
Really brings new mean to "Linux for Mobile Devices".
I don't think we can fault MS for the "closed architecture" on the Xbox. Nintendo created that standard a long time ago. Every company since has followed that in the (television/portable) video game market. Atari unknowningly had an open arch with the 2600, and that led to the creation of the "third party" software company.
I agree that there shouldn't be a restriction on who gets to do development on a platform. What ever happened to the hobbyist (sp?) XBox dev kit?
I'll preface by saying I have never done your third example. But given that many people learn from similar sources (other than you silly self taught people, wait, that's me too) even non-trivial code will have some similarities. There are only so many ways to handle memory allocation. I'm sure Linux and SCO Unix picked the same way and similarities ensue.
Granted, it could be blanted copying. We don't know. But I'm guessing it's some lines here, some lines there. Sorry if my for loop is the same as yours or I use the same variable naming notation SCO does. That's not a crime. Open source isn't a good place for stealing code.
This sounds like a good Ask Slashdot question: Do you copy code from other projects, and if you do, do you give proper credit? Do you ever break the law while coding (scary thought).
I agree with point 1. Someone somewhere will eventually write lines of code that are exactly like code that has come before it. Have you ever seen an Intro to C class? There are only so many ways to solve the same problem. I wouldn't expect each student to come up with a completely unique solution. (Granted, there was a lot of cheating at my school's Intro to C classes).
Stupid Examples:
----------------
Write a program that calculates the area of a triangle, given the correct inputs.
Write a program that reads a file from the file system an creates an exact copy in a new location.
There are only so many ways to do each of those.
I would say it is safe to say that Linux and Windows share a few common lines of code.
This lawsuit has no merit.
Remove error correction? So when I back up my computer to the 1.4GB CD-R it's more likely to get corrupt. Lose more in less time!
Is this an attempt to battle the smaller, faster KHTML engine that Apple picked? Sounds like the Mozilla gang is a more miffed than previously believed.
Lifetime = Life of the company = April 15 - April 2 = 13 days.
Woohoo!
Wait. You don't have to pay extra for tires? =)
I'm still trying to figure out why I had to pay extra for floor mats.
Wow. Nice to see AOL do something semi-useful. Now only if the U.S. Postal Service would block 40% of AOL CD's...
Excuse me while I look into this "Free Vacation!!!" I just received from "Stella".
The college experience is about choice. Students and professors should be free to choose what platform suits them best.
I used a Unix/Linux machine for all my CS work. I would not have chosen to learn on a Windows machine. Others will chose differently. You must give people the opportunity to make choices, good or bad.
I can see quite a few stick-in-mud professors getting a little angry when you tell them their curriculum. Choice is more important.
If these folks just spent the time playing the game instead of programming a script/scripting engine to play the game, maybe they could have beat it for now.
But then again, where is the nerdiness in that?
I think I saw this very same ad last time I was donating plasma...
When I was in high school we programmed on MS-DOS (both ways in the snow!)
Some command-line adventures would be good for kids these days.