I don't post very much to slashdot but the fact you have a 5 on this comment prompted me to reply.
DISLAIMER: IANASBIRTSMFHS (I am not a scientist but I remember the scientific method from high school)
You don't "know" of that.
You believe your birthday is March you don't know it. You were there at the event of your birth, but unless you checked a calendar and clock and have total recall you dont know it. You take it on faith that no one has messed up with the facts. Proper calendar on the righ page, clock set and giving correct time. Besides, what is correct time? for that matter what is what is "March"? Who's frame of reference?
Are you sure she is your sister? Are you positive? Did you do a DNA scan?
As for getting up early in the morning, how do you know that a huge comet, massive earthquake, a massive layoff at your company, Winning the lottery or some other event won't eliminate your "need" to get up early and go to work.
You need to come up with something else to disprove the grandparent's "theory".
IANAL, at first I though this might fall under Work For Hire:
Works Made for Hire. -- (1) a work prepared by an employee within the scope of his or her employment; or (2) a work specially ordered or commissioned for use as a contribution to a collective work, as a part of a motion picture or other audiovisual work, as a translation, as a supplementary work, as a compilation, as an instructional text, as a test, as answer material for a test, or as an atlas, if the parties expressly agree in a written instrument signed by them that the work shall be considered a work made for hire. 17 U.S.C. sec 101
But now that I looked it up it says specifically that it has to be in writing and it has to fall under one of 9 categories. Software development is not listed although it could be if it is part of a contribution to a larger work.
Alot of us have been, will be or are contractors so it is always good advice to do some research and hire a good lawyer to protect your IP.
No no. It's not about setting up a "shared folder" per se, it's about setting up a sharing scheme so that others have access to the files. When NYCountryLawyer says "shared files folder," he is talking about a folder that has been linked to a file-sharing program -- such that others can download or open the files.
But what is the definition of a file-sharing program? I am a Software Architect and I may have written a "file-sharing" program to make it easier to access my own files. Can anyone claim the internet is secure that no one else could see my shared files?
If you had a shared files folder with 500 RIAA songs in it, and you paid 99 cents to iTunes or whomever for each and every one of them, the RIAA would come after you and demand a settlement in the exact same amount as if every one of the song files had been pirated.
So if I have a folder called "Music" containing all legally bought songs from iTunes and I share that folder so I have access to it from another computer within my home network I could be sued for each and every one of them?
If thats true then I am very very saddened at the state of Copyright law and kinda depressed.
Just as I was going to post this I thought, "Hmm. I have a Windows Mobile phone, and maybe getting a Microsoft Zune plus I have a Tablet PC, which are all connected to my "home" network but when I am away from home they are still able to connect to my home network via the Internet. This makes the idea even more scary.
Every single proposed solution at that time was passed except 1. That one was to actually vary the pay of the teachers and their tenure based upon the results of the standardized test progress of their students. Yes I did propose and it has gone nation wide the testing of schools by testing the progression of the students! I am the one everyone likes to hate over this
You might know more about this then I do but wouldn't tying teacher's rate of pay to standardized testing encourage the teachers to teach just the exam and not how to learn and explore? It doesn't matter if the students learn as long as they do well in the test right? As long as the test scores are up they must be producing better students right?
I have to admit I never studied any of this so I have to defer to your intensive studies of this revolutionary plan.
The Original Poster just had to add the qualifier "nearly" so I really wanted to know why he thought that Microsoft only got it "nearly" right.
This is bascially my point. Way too often slashdot sheep have a hard time admiting that Microsoft can do something right. VS 2005 is the best Dev environment I have ever used. (And I have used a few in my day... and I have been on teams that developed competing products).
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I've only ever programmed with a GUI on Windows -- and I have to admit that I find Dev Studio to be one of the few programs that Microsoft seems to have gotten (nearly) right.
A chicken and an egg were lying next to each other in a bed. The chicken lights up a cigarette and looks over at the egg who has its arms crossed and says, "I guess we answered that question."
Onions are just pure evil and a scurge on the world. And they are on everything. I mean everthing. Im sure you tried to kiss a girl who has just eaten onions. OMG thats just wrong.
Maybe I shouldn't have included onions in my list but I really dont like them very much.
Also did you know: You can't taste a raw onion. I'm serious. Pinch your nose so you cant smell and take a bite into an onion. You wont be able to taste it at all. But damn, it will hit you all at once when you let go of your nose.
Whatever happened to survival of the fittest? Is all this technology assisting with breeding a race of second rate homo sapiens?
As a group were are not first rate homo sapiens.
There is natural selection and sexual selection. As long as ugly people, stupid people and politians* keep getting laid we will always be a race of second rate homo sapiens.
* (also people who drive slow in the fast lane, people that try to take out a second mortgage through the ATM machine, RIAA lawyers, people that answer cell phones in the theatre, most of my ex girlfriends (but not their hot girlfriends), terrorists, people involved in the Garfield movie, the religious right, all those bullies from gym class, fanatics of any kind, people who like onions, dog owners that dont scoop, the people who invented rebate pricing, people who fart in the elevator just as the doors close and telemarketers. )
** NOTE TO MODERATORS: I would really prefer a +1 interesting over a +1 Funny.
On the face of it, it looks as though what **AA did was only (allegedly) break in and steal some emails while TorrentSpy is (allegedly) facilitating copyright infringement (but not actually infringing themselves).
But the act of breaking into a computer system breaks CRIMINAL laws while copyright infringement breaks only CIVIL laws. BIG difference.
Where are the FBI Raids? This country is so turned around now that, if you are big and powerful, you can get away with criminal acts while if you are a small timer you get the book thrown at you for minor offences.
Take a good look at the link. I just went to Amazon and looked up the book and copy and pasted its URL. Its not a referral link of any kind. Anyone making money off it is Amazon if you decide to buy from them.
I read the book a few weeks ago and thought it was a very interesting book. Excuse me for having upset your sensibilities by posting a link to a book that I thought many would find inetresting.
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I don't post very much to slashdot but the fact you have a 5 on this comment prompted me to reply.
DISLAIMER: IANASBIRTSMFHS (I am not a scientist but I remember the scientific method from high school)
You don't "know" of that.
You believe your birthday is March you don't know it. You were there at the event of your birth, but unless you checked a calendar and clock and have total recall you dont know it. You take it on faith that no one has messed up with the facts. Proper calendar on the righ page, clock set and giving correct time. Besides, what is correct time? for that matter what is what is "March"? Who's frame of reference?
Are you sure she is your sister? Are you positive? Did you do a DNA scan?
As for getting up early in the morning, how do you know that a huge comet, massive earthquake, a massive layoff at your company, Winning the lottery or some other event won't eliminate your "need" to get up early and go to work.
You need to come up with something else to disprove the grandparent's "theory".
IANAL, at first I though this might fall under Work For Hire:
Works Made for Hire. -- (1) a work prepared by an employee within the scope of his or her employment; or (2) a work specially ordered or commissioned for use as a contribution to a collective work, as a part of a motion picture or other audiovisual work, as a translation, as a supplementary work, as a compilation, as an instructional text, as a test, as answer material for a test, or as an atlas, if the parties expressly agree in a written instrument signed by them that the work shall be considered a work made for hire. 17 U.S.C. sec 101
But now that I looked it up it says specifically that it has to be in writing and it has to fall under one of 9 categories. Software development is not listed although it could be if it is part of a contribution to a larger work.
Alot of us have been, will be or are contractors so it is always good advice to do some research and hire a good lawyer to protect your IP.
Obligitory Wikipedia link
Sphere!
Instead of talking about a Cloak of Invisibilty why not talk about a Sphere of Invisibility? I would think it would be easier to design.
Me too! When you figure it out please let me know. Ok?
Crap. That sure teaches me to keep multiple windows open. This was supposed to be posted in this slashdot article.
Waterworld. Maybe Kevin Costner is a visionary.
With global warming melting ice and increasing the sea level I cant help but think that a countries Naval force is going to extremely important soon.
Robert
Process Explorer
No no. It's not about setting up a "shared folder" per se, it's about setting up a sharing scheme so that others have access to the files. When NYCountryLawyer says "shared files folder," he is talking about a folder that has been linked to a file-sharing program -- such that others can download or open the files.
But what is the definition of a file-sharing program? I am a Software Architect and I may have written a "file-sharing" program to make it easier to access my own files. Can anyone claim the internet is secure that no one else could see my shared files?
If you had a shared files folder with 500 RIAA songs in it, and you paid 99 cents to iTunes or whomever for each and every one of them, the RIAA would come after you and demand a settlement in the exact same amount as if every one of the song files had been pirated.
So if I have a folder called "Music" containing all legally bought songs from iTunes and I share that folder so I have access to it from another computer within my home network I could be sued for each and every one of them?
If thats true then I am very very saddened at the state of Copyright law and kinda depressed.
Just as I was going to post this I thought, "Hmm. I have a Windows Mobile phone, and maybe getting a Microsoft Zune plus I have a Tablet PC, which are all connected to my "home" network but when I am away from home they are still able to connect to my home network via the Internet. This makes the idea even more scary.
..at least now I don't have to worry about the end of the world coming anytime soon.
Every single proposed solution at that time was passed except 1. That one was to actually vary the pay of the teachers and their tenure based upon the results of the standardized test progress of their students. Yes I did propose and it has gone nation wide the testing of schools by testing the progression of the students! I am the one everyone likes to hate over this
You might know more about this then I do but wouldn't tying teacher's rate of pay to standardized testing encourage the teachers to teach just the exam and not how to learn and explore? It doesn't matter if the students learn as long as they do well in the test right? As long as the test scores are up they must be producing better students right?
I have to admit I never studied any of this so I have to defer to your intensive studies of this revolutionary plan.
The Original Poster just had to add the qualifier "nearly" so I really wanted to know why he thought that Microsoft only got it "nearly" right.
This is bascially my point. Way too often slashdot sheep have a hard time admiting that Microsoft can do something right. VS 2005 is the best Dev environment I have ever used. (And I have used a few in my day... and I have been on teams that developed competing products). .
I've only ever programmed with a GUI on Windows -- and I have to admit that I find Dev Studio to be one of the few programs that Microsoft seems to have gotten (nearly) right.
I wonder. Which Dev tool gets it right?
Does that work?
:) I need to increase my karma!
Damn...
I always seem to get +5 Funny and never anything else so my karma is only good.
Do Ihave to beg for +1 Insighful?
A chicken and an egg were lying next to each other in a bed. The chicken lights up a cigarette and looks over at the egg who has its arms crossed and says, "I guess we answered that question."
(Ba dum bum)
Thank you thank you. I'll be here all week.
Onions are just pure evil and a scurge on the world. And they are on everything. I mean everthing. Im sure you tried to kiss a girl who has just eaten onions. OMG thats just wrong.
Maybe I shouldn't have included onions in my list but I really dont like them very much.
Also did you know: You can't taste a raw onion. I'm serious. Pinch your nose so you cant smell and take a bite into an onion. You wont be able to taste it at all. But damn, it will hit you all at once when you let go of your nose.
Whatever happened to survival of the fittest? Is all this technology assisting with breeding a race of second rate homo sapiens?
As a group were are not first rate homo sapiens.
There is natural selection and sexual selection. As long as ugly people, stupid people and politians* keep getting laid we will always be a race of second rate homo sapiens.
* (also people who drive slow in the fast lane, people that try to take out a second mortgage through the ATM machine, RIAA lawyers, people that answer cell phones in the theatre, most of my ex girlfriends (but not their hot girlfriends), terrorists, people involved in the Garfield movie, the religious right, all those bullies from gym class, fanatics of any kind, people who like onions, dog owners that dont scoop, the people who invented rebate pricing, people who fart in the elevator just as the doors close and telemarketers. )
** NOTE TO MODERATORS: I would really prefer a +1 interesting over a +1 Funny.
On the face of it, it looks as though what **AA did was only (allegedly) break in and steal some emails while TorrentSpy is (allegedly) facilitating copyright infringement (but not actually infringing themselves).
But the act of breaking into a computer system breaks CRIMINAL laws while copyright infringement breaks only CIVIL laws. BIG difference.
Where are the FBI Raids? This country is so turned around now that, if you are big and powerful, you can get away with criminal acts while if you are a small timer you get the book thrown at you for minor offences.
I am very disappointed!
How can a bacteria be described as virulent?
No one has pointed out yet that each time you view this file the comments on the blackboard keep changing.
-- Robert
Take a good look at the link. I just went to Amazon and looked up the book and copy and pasted its URL. Its not a referral link of any kind. Anyone making money off it is Amazon if you decide to buy from them.
I read the book a few weeks ago and thought it was a very interesting book. Excuse me for having upset your sensibilities by posting a link to a book that I thought many would find inetresting.
There is nothing wrong with "Gut Feeling". Sometimes that will actually give you the best answer.
Check out Blink! a book by Malcome Gladwell. A very thought provoking read.
Blink!
Is this the one the authorities put up based on the code they found in his machine?
You really think that if Microsoft.org was available you would be able to hold on to it?
Subgroups aren't solving the problem.
-- Robert