..you think that they should continue to waste taxpayer money..
By pre-emptively ending the trial have they not avoided judgment against them and then setting a precedent for such trials?
Personally if I were an american citizen I'd prefer the case (i.e. this particular case) to run it's full course so precedent could be set which would then save money on future cases. Either future cases could refer to the results and judgment of this case (hence shortening them) or some cases would not even be started due to the precedent.
I think this shows just how sleezy the RIAA has become.
understand the problem (interact with people) = Business analyst
understand the external constraints (interact with people)= business analyst
design an effective solution to the problem = system analyst
while designing the solution, design some tests to verify that the problem is solved (and remains solved) = Quality assurance analyst
code the effective solution to the problem = programmer analyst
teach other team-members about your solution to the problem (interact with people) = project manager
OK some of the points are arguable, but in large corporations something along these lines is often the case. Each part of the SDLC can be and is divided between different people with very specific responsibilities. Not always the best solution, but sometimes unavoidable in larger corporations.
I worked for a gov't agency that had all roles divided similar to the above example (all coding falling to outside civilian developers). I now work for a small company (1/3.5 software developers) and now I "develop software" (i.e. I do the full range of tasks bulleted). I find the variation in tasks a lot more interesting than my previous role.
So if the standard language was, say, esperanto and all ATC and pilots had to speak it would the francophones have still been up in arms? I doubt it.
In my experience french speaking french Canadians have a knee jerk reaction to any situation where they would be expected to speak english. The attitude is that it is their god given right to speak their native tongue.
While I do agree that Canada should have two native tongues and government services should be offered in both languages often the attitude goes too far. We are talking about something that has become a standard in the aviation industry due to the proliferation of english, not the Canadian government trying to put one over on the french canadians.
ATC communication having to be in english is not like forcing french canadian to go to english speaking schools, forcing them to speak english in court, or forcing them file their taxes in english.
In the case of the web design school it was a pretty clear case of trademark infringement. The fact that they used Apple equipment made it even more likely.
They have a logo that is very similar to apple's trademarked logo, they deal with computer related tasks/services/education, they use apple hardware... it is quite likely someone may mistake that the company is somehow tied to apple (an official apple web design school or something of the sort). Whether it is "morally" wrong for them to sue this company is a side issue (and debateable) as Apple must protect it's trademark in all cases they are aware of or risk losing it. Plus, gimme a break.. they couldn't find something a little more unique for a logo?! They were obviously "inspired" by the apple logo.
BTW, I am from the city where the school exists. Pretty much all the news coverage was inflamatory and in the mindset of "big guy against the little guy". One news article even made the mistake of stating apple was suing over copyright infringement in the title but goes on to talk about TM infrigement in the article(again too many people don't get copyright != trademark). In reality it is really quite simple. Their logo is too damn close and they are in a similar field. Plain and simple that is a prime case for trademark infringement and not one story I read covered that. I'm surprised no one recognized that while designing the logo,"Ummm don't you think this is a little close to the apple logo?" They use apple products so they obviously know what the trademarked apple symbol looks like.
I'll second the advice on Octave. I used Matlab for some projects in university but quickly switched over to Octave. I did all my work for my numerical methods course using Octave. As the prof and markers never actually ran our code (they just quickly looked over source and results) they didn't even notice it wasn't matlab. As that course was fairly simple pretty much all of it would have compiled under matlab with no changes. Some of the more complex stuff I did for projects would have required a bit of "porting", but not nearly as much as porting to a different language.
I don't see how a person carrying pot can bring down a plane..
By sharing it with the pilot.
With the quantity they arrest for in the US there wouldn't be enough to get yourself high let alone yourself and the pilot.
Better make sure your pocket lint doesn't have any suspicious flakes in it before flying because that gives them the right to search your ass for more.
I spend a good 25% of my day sitting at my desk, leaning back and thinking. A good 50% of that time (so, 12.5% of my working day), my eyes will be closed while sitting that way.
I am very similar in that regard. I tend to hunch over a notebook though scratching down thoughts to clarify them. If I'm telecommuting sometimes I'll take a shower if I'm stuck on something. Seriously. Don't know if it's the white(ish) noise of the shower or what, but I find it an easy way to relax step back and think things through. So I've been paid to shower.
Having to look busy is the worst way to work. Jumping into code is the right way to be productive only when you are dealing with trivial tasks. When dealing with anything that is algorithmically complex it's best to lay out what needs to happen, how you are going to do it to maximize efficiency (whether that be memory usage, disk access, verifying n^2 is the best you can do for the computation.. whatever it may be). Write it in pseudo on paper, on a computer, in your head.. whatever works for crystalizing the problem and then implement in whatever language you happen to be using that day.
It may look like it's less efficient but in my experience it minimizes a lot of other work (rewrites, refactoring, maintenance, bugs fixes etc).
The person who telecommutes would not get paid for that time, why should the person in office?
Really? What job?
I sometimes telecommute (software dev and previously doing analyst type work). I get paid for the same time I work when in office. If I start at 9 that means I'm at my desk at 9. For anyone I know that does contract work or telecommutes it's the same deal.
Heck, sometimes at work or at home I won't even log in right away as I need to do some brainstorming on paper and don't want the distractions of email or the computer in general. Does that mean I'm not working?
I've used both Avast and AVG freeware products and they have detected zero infections over the last couple of years...
There. Fixed that for you.
No infections detected != no infections.
Doing something as simple as padding malware with 0x00 can foil virus scanners. If I write something today and send it to you and you are foolish enough to run it (say I know you don't show file extensions so I disguise it with a word icon file). Your antivirus won't pick it up as a virus. It's not in their database because they haven't seen it "in the wild" yet.
CDE is still standard on Solaris (you can choose between CDE and GNOME at install time), which runs on SPARC and x86 systems...
The school I graded from used CDE. First on AIX boxes in the unix lab, then they shifted to Solaris on x86 (cheaper desktops).
CDE is nice in a minimalistic way (though I'd choose blackbox or fluxbox over it). Actually there are tonnes of lightweight WMs I'd choose over it. Basically any that aren't tiled. Of course the choice at that time was between CDE and an early version of gnome. Most windows users would choose gnome, but CDE was the way to go if you wanted to get anything done as gnome wasn't the most stable or efficient desktop environment at that time.
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Does anyone have any idea what reference platform they are using to develop this and if there is a way for me to obtain it relatively cheaply?
My bets are on the beagle board as it is super cheap (and they have a posting on their front page about Canonical porting to arm7).
The beagle board is an awesome bang for the buck. I'm thinking of asking my work to grab one for me with the next digikey shipment (free shipping, woohoo).
Exactly. This is old news. Mega Blocks have been around for years and this issue came up in north america quite a while ago. Lego lost their suit because they don't have a patent on the block design. Claiming that a block the same shape and size is a trademark infringement is a bit of a reach. The proper IP vehicle would have been a patent (though maybe the lego block design was unpatentable?).
The word "singleton" wasn't invented to describe the design pattern, douchebag. It means there is only one of something and is used correctly in TFS.
Lemme guess. Your a singleton (an offspring born alone).
While the term may be used correctly it doesn't address the target audience correctly. For the slashdot community the title is quite misleading. A title of "Web Singletons?" and it's not about the design pattern? Not cool or geeky. Wouldn't "unique web apps?" or something else better describe what the article is about?
I know I was disappointed when I found out the article wasn't (directly) related to coding and by the responses I've seen so far it looks as though I'm not projecting.
Trademark has nothing to do with prior art. That's patents. They aren't attempting to patent the words. It has to do with rights for a certain use of the words. So in this instance the use of "with glowing hearts" in relation to the olympics. If you use the words in other ways commercially that don't attempt to tie into the olympics in any way shape or form, then you are in the safe (the measure is whether you are diluting the brand of the IOC by using the trademarked phrase).
While I don't agree with this TM being granted, I don't really think it limits anyone. Sure Bell can't use the Canadian anthem in a special olympic cell phone deal for the upcoming olympics, but it won't (or shouldn't) affect canadian citizens in general. It does prevent people who attempt to jump on the olympic money wagon for free without paying the IOC fee and possibly goes overboard to affect innocent advertisers that are overly patriotic (pretty rare in Canada compared to the US).
It overly favours the IOC, but the gov't has a lot to gain from that.
Is it even a breach of contract? All terms must be laid out before the contract is agreed on. I would argue that once the user has paid for the item at the till they have accepted the offer of the use of mac OS software for the listed price. The EULA isn't available until after acceptance (and in general once the package is opened you can not return it). So the EULA would not hold as terms or conditions in a contract. Even if it did succeed as a BoC case, the dammages would be nil as Apple did not lose anything and no financial amount is needed to put the situation right (they are ahead of where they were not behind).
I think one could argue Apple is in BoC though. You purchased software to use and paid for it (apple's consideration), but they are now saying you can not use it with non-apple hardware. Of course your damages would be the value of the software (unless you take it to court in Texas and the judge thinks apple is being egregious in their actions and punitive damages are required to punish the corp... in which case you could be a millionaire! Highly doubtful though.).
Note, IANAL I'm a software developer. I do have a reasonable grasp on contract law, agency etc.. but don't take my word for it!
Uncompressing a file in WinRAR consistently takes up to or over 10x as long to uncompress in 7zip. Try it yourself. WinRAR is even faster with.7z archives.
So you are saying a file that takes 10 seconds in winrar could take upto 1m40s in 7zip? Or a file that takes 1 minute in winrar could take up to 10 minutes in 7zip?
Please, at least give a believable factor.. yes you said "up to", but seriously in general is it even twice as slow? I doubt it. From my experience, no it's not and the time I save not clicking a nag banner makes it faster.
If winrar is so superior to other zip software then why don't they advertise benchmarks? Seems like a great selling feature to me.. if it were true.
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..you think that they should continue to waste taxpayer money ..
By pre-emptively ending the trial have they not avoided judgment against them and then setting a precedent for such trials?
Personally if I were an american citizen I'd prefer the case (i.e. this particular case) to run it's full course so precedent could be set which would then save money on future cases. Either future cases could refer to the results and judgment of this case (hence shortening them) or some cases would not even be started due to the precedent.
I think this shows just how sleezy the RIAA has become.
understand the problem (interact with people) = Business analyst
understand the external constraints (interact with people)= business analyst
design an effective solution to the problem = system analyst
while designing the solution, design some tests to verify that the problem is solved (and remains solved) = Quality assurance analyst
code the effective solution to the problem = programmer analyst
teach other team-members about your solution to the problem (interact with people) = project manager
OK some of the points are arguable, but in large corporations something along these lines is often the case. Each part of the SDLC can be and is divided between different people with very specific responsibilities. Not always the best solution, but sometimes unavoidable in larger corporations.
I worked for a gov't agency that had all roles divided similar to the above example (all coding falling to outside civilian developers). I now work for a small company (1/3.5 software developers) and now I "develop software" (i.e. I do the full range of tasks bulleted). I find the variation in tasks a lot more interesting than my previous role.
So if the standard language was, say, esperanto and all ATC and pilots had to speak it would the francophones have still been up in arms? I doubt it.
In my experience french speaking french Canadians have a knee jerk reaction to any situation where they would be expected to speak english. The attitude is that it is their god given right to speak their native tongue.
While I do agree that Canada should have two native tongues and government services should be offered in both languages often the attitude goes too far. We are talking about something that has become a standard in the aviation industry due to the proliferation of english, not the Canadian government trying to put one over on the french canadians.
ATC communication having to be in english is not like forcing french canadian to go to english speaking schools, forcing them to speak english in court, or forcing them file their taxes in english.
but yes, I think making and enforcing standards for CAs is a good role for the government.
Which "the government" are you talking about here? ...
I nominate Canada. They seem to be a respected world power. Everyone will be willing to listen to them.
That link is dead. Could repost a working link?
I really need that application. I get so many viruses.
q: What's the difference between a group seasoned programmers and a bunch of salted cod?
Imagine Natalie Portman on a beowulf cluster of those.
She'd be naked, petrified and trembling!
Now all they need to do is design an open source hot grits machine to compliment it.
(the) Article is pure shit.
I could have sworn I saw a few kernels of corn and a peanut or two in there.
Hmm, but it looks like you need to login to view the download page...
The forumns are open for anonymous viewing though. Looks like an interesting project.
In the case of the web design school it was a pretty clear case of trademark infringement. The fact that they used Apple equipment made it even more likely.
,"Ummm don't you think this is a little close to the apple logo?" They use apple products so they obviously know what the trademarked apple symbol looks like.
They have a logo that is very similar to apple's trademarked logo, they deal with computer related tasks/services/education, they use apple hardware... it is quite likely someone may mistake that the company is somehow tied to apple (an official apple web design school or something of the sort). Whether it is "morally" wrong for them to sue this company is a side issue (and debateable) as Apple must protect it's trademark in all cases they are aware of or risk losing it. Plus, gimme a break.. they couldn't find something a little more unique for a logo?! They were obviously "inspired" by the apple logo.
BTW, I am from the city where the school exists. Pretty much all the news coverage was inflamatory and in the mindset of "big guy against the little guy". One news article even made the mistake of stating apple was suing over copyright infringement in the title but goes on to talk about TM infrigement in the article(again too many people don't get copyright != trademark). In reality it is really quite simple. Their logo is too damn close and they are in a similar field. Plain and simple that is a prime case for trademark infringement and not one story I read covered that. I'm surprised no one recognized that while designing the logo
I'll second the advice on Octave. I used Matlab for some projects in university but quickly switched over to Octave. I did all my work for my numerical methods course using Octave. As the prof and markers never actually ran our code (they just quickly looked over source and results) they didn't even notice it wasn't matlab. As that course was fairly simple pretty much all of it would have compiled under matlab with no changes. Some of the more complex stuff I did for projects would have required a bit of "porting", but not nearly as much as porting to a different language.
I don't see how a person carrying pot can bring down a plane..
By sharing it with the pilot.
With the quantity they arrest for in the US there wouldn't be enough to get yourself high let alone yourself and the pilot.
Better make sure your pocket lint doesn't have any suspicious flakes in it before flying because that gives them the right to search your ass for more.
..this is news?
I guess this falls under the general category of stuff that matters...
I spend a good 25% of my day sitting at my desk, leaning back and thinking. A good 50% of that time (so, 12.5% of my working day), my eyes will be closed while sitting that way.
I am very similar in that regard. I tend to hunch over a notebook though scratching down thoughts to clarify them. If I'm telecommuting sometimes I'll take a shower if I'm stuck on something. Seriously. Don't know if it's the white(ish) noise of the shower or what, but I find it an easy way to relax step back and think things through. So I've been paid to shower.
Having to look busy is the worst way to work. Jumping into code is the right way to be productive only when you are dealing with trivial tasks. When dealing with anything that is algorithmically complex it's best to lay out what needs to happen, how you are going to do it to maximize efficiency (whether that be memory usage, disk access, verifying n^2 is the best you can do for the computation.. whatever it may be). Write it in pseudo on paper, on a computer, in your head.. whatever works for crystalizing the problem and then implement in whatever language you happen to be using that day.
It may look like it's less efficient but in my experience it minimizes a lot of other work (rewrites, refactoring, maintenance, bugs fixes etc).
The person who telecommutes would not get paid for that time, why should the person in office?
Really? What job?
I sometimes telecommute (software dev and previously doing analyst type work). I get paid for the same time I work when in office. If I start at 9 that means I'm at my desk at 9. For anyone I know that does contract work or telecommutes it's the same deal.
Heck, sometimes at work or at home I won't even log in right away as I need to do some brainstorming on paper and don't want the distractions of email or the computer in general. Does that mean I'm not working?
I've used both Avast and AVG freeware products and they have detected zero infections over the last couple of years...
There. Fixed that for you.
No infections detected != no infections.
Doing something as simple as padding malware with 0x00 can foil virus scanners. If I write something today and send it to you and you are foolish enough to run it (say I know you don't show file extensions so I disguise it with a word icon file). Your antivirus won't pick it up as a virus. It's not in their database because they haven't seen it "in the wild" yet.
CDE is still standard on Solaris (you can choose between CDE and GNOME at install time), which runs on SPARC and x86 systems...
The school I graded from used CDE. First on AIX boxes in the unix lab, then they shifted to Solaris on x86 (cheaper desktops).
CDE is nice in a minimalistic way (though I'd choose blackbox or fluxbox over it). Actually there are tonnes of lightweight WMs I'd choose over it. Basically any that aren't tiled. Of course the choice at that time was between CDE and an early version of gnome. Most windows users would choose gnome, but CDE was the way to go if you wanted to get anything done as gnome wasn't the most stable or efficient desktop environment at that time.
Does anyone have any idea what reference platform they are using to develop this and if there is a way for me to obtain it relatively cheaply?
My bets are on the beagle board as it is super cheap (and they have a posting on their front page about Canonical porting to arm7).
The beagle board is an awesome bang for the buck. I'm thinking of asking my work to grab one for me with the next digikey shipment (free shipping, woohoo).
Exactly. This is old news. Mega Blocks have been around for years and this issue came up in north america quite a while ago. Lego lost their suit because they don't have a patent on the block design. Claiming that a block the same shape and size is a trademark infringement is a bit of a reach. The proper IP vehicle would have been a patent (though maybe the lego block design was unpatentable?).
No one is forcing Diebold Inc. to use Ghostscript in its electronic election systems ..
Exactly. I'm sure Adobe would license them a postscript package for a reasonable fee.
Egad. That is embarrassing. Nearly as bad as a then/than error.
The word "singleton" wasn't invented to describe the design pattern, douchebag. It means there is only one of something and is used correctly in TFS.
Lemme guess. Your a singleton (an offspring born alone).
While the term may be used correctly it doesn't address the target audience correctly. For the slashdot community the title is quite misleading. A title of "Web Singletons?" and it's not about the design pattern? Not cool or geeky. Wouldn't "unique web apps?" or something else better describe what the article is about?
I know I was disappointed when I found out the article wasn't (directly) related to coding and by the responses I've seen so far it looks as though I'm not projecting.
Trademark has nothing to do with prior art. That's patents. They aren't attempting to patent the words. It has to do with rights for a certain use of the words. So in this instance the use of "with glowing hearts" in relation to the olympics. If you use the words in other ways commercially that don't attempt to tie into the olympics in any way shape or form, then you are in the safe (the measure is whether you are diluting the brand of the IOC by using the trademarked phrase).
While I don't agree with this TM being granted, I don't really think it limits anyone. Sure Bell can't use the Canadian anthem in a special olympic cell phone deal for the upcoming olympics, but it won't (or shouldn't) affect canadian citizens in general. It does prevent people who attempt to jump on the olympic money wagon for free without paying the IOC fee and possibly goes overboard to affect innocent advertisers that are overly patriotic (pretty rare in Canada compared to the US).
It overly favours the IOC, but the gov't has a lot to gain from that.
Is it even a breach of contract? All terms must be laid out before the contract is agreed on. I would argue that once the user has paid for the item at the till they have accepted the offer of the use of mac OS software for the listed price. The EULA isn't available until after acceptance (and in general once the package is opened you can not return it). So the EULA would not hold as terms or conditions in a contract. Even if it did succeed as a BoC case, the dammages would be nil as Apple did not lose anything and no financial amount is needed to put the situation right (they are ahead of where they were not behind).
I think one could argue Apple is in BoC though. You purchased software to use and paid for it (apple's consideration), but they are now saying you can not use it with non-apple hardware. Of course your damages would be the value of the software (unless you take it to court in Texas and the judge thinks apple is being egregious in their actions and punitive damages are required to punish the corp... in which case you could be a millionaire! Highly doubtful though.).
Note, IANAL I'm a software developer. I do have a reasonable grasp on contract law, agency etc.. but don't take my word for it!
Uncompressing a file in WinRAR consistently takes up to or over 10x as long to uncompress in 7zip. Try it yourself. WinRAR is even faster with .7z archives.
So you are saying a file that takes 10 seconds in winrar could take upto 1m40s in 7zip? Or a file that takes 1 minute in winrar could take up to 10 minutes in 7zip?
Please, at least give a believable factor.. yes you said "up to", but seriously in general is it even twice as slow? I doubt it. From my experience, no it's not and the time I save not clicking a nag banner makes it faster.
If winrar is so superior to other zip software then why don't they advertise benchmarks? Seems like a great selling feature to me.. if it were true.