The article claims patents affect research. Is there
legal evidence that this can happen in the UK/US at all?
I only know according to German law, you can use methods
disclosed in patents for research purposes, it's only
a monopoly on the _commercial_ exploitation.
I'd suspect UK/US law to be similar regarding research
use.
1. Code compile with gcc does NOT automatically fall under the GPL (read up on the differences between GPL and LGPL).
2. You don't have to use GCC to compile your project. (There are also commmercial compilers for C++, for example Intel has one.). Your Windows re-write of the project seems like a big waste just because your lawyers don't have a clue.
3. You don't have to open-source ALL your code, only the changes to the core Linux operating system. Surely you could have split your system into an application layer and an OS layer, only opening up the latter (probably with very limited use to your competitor compared to the former).
4. If your project management was unaware of the licensing situation before embarking on a project, that doesn't sound good, uh-oh. You had better try to silently move to work a more competent project leader.
A factor not often talked about when
discussing the Turing test is the qualification
of the interviewer (not the subject).
The value of the Turing test depends a lot on the
nature of the questions asked. Anybody can
ask difficult questions that fellow humans
fail to copy with, but not everybody knows
what are difficult questions for computers
(which may well be simple for humans).
Thus, an Artificial Intelligence researcher
should be a more suitable interviewer than
a non-expert.
Good Example:
requesting the description of an emotion
(recalling an event that typically invokes
strong emotions)
Bad Example:
Hard math
(34589759847359874389574398+3487928479823749837498 )
> "The bottom line is we have a very unsafe planet."
The nature of threats are changing over time.
Global climate change is one of them, and
in part believed to be responsible for more and more hurricanes.
As a countermeasure, many countries, but not the
US (yet?), have signed the Kyoto Protocol.
Get your local rep to do something about it!
LISP is pretty, but also tricky in practice...
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1) macros will blow your mind. Read Paul Grahams' 'On Lisp'
Quite right, LISP's parentheses blow everybody's mind, including Paul Graham's.
From Graham's "On Lisp" errata site:
p. 85. `(,a,(b `,c))) has an extra close paren.
(((I) (wonder) (why))) ;-)
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"Thompson said he didn't know whether anything in the research contract with Microsoft would have prevented release of the study if the company considered the results unfavorable."
He surely doesn't have to read it to understand
how the system works...
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MBA. You've learned how. Now learn why. The resultant doubling of your earnings potential is just a sad side-effect you're going to have to learn to cope with.
Get an MSc, then a PhD, then an MBA.
In your BSc, you have learned some fundamentals. An MSc/MA/MPhil will take you to the next level; you will be able to read research-level academic papers and get more in-depth knowledge of certain areas within CS, and in your Master's thesis you can practice academic writing yourself and get a tiny taste of what research is like.
This will prepare you for your PhD, where you you will be working independently and become a leading expert in a narrow sub-area of your preferred sub-discipline.
We can now say you've learned how (following the wording of the parent post, but please do keep on studying - lifelong learning is true path). Next learn why (again using the parent post's wording; I'd prefer to call it 'learning how' still, just that the 'how' relates to business at this rather than technology).
An MBA is a fast-track way to get an overview over business matters (financing, marketing, strategy, management). Of course you can also get a job instead and pick things up on the fly if you can't get a scholarship and don't have any savings.
The job is the slow way, the MBA faster, but you might not lust for much future school education at this stage.
Congratulations! - Now you are what they call over-qualified: you can see problems
everywhere that nobody else can see; you discover
programmers are using the wrong algorithms,
academic papers are full of technical and methodological flaws, and everywhere management is badly organised and lacking strategic vision, all of which might disillusion you.
Your feeling at this stage probably resembles what your Zen master wants to create inside you when he or she beats you with a stick in order to enlighten you.
Now take some time off and think about something really clever to do because you're approaching a good age for early retirement.
;; This buffer is for notes you don't want to save, and for Lisp evaluation. ;; If you want to create a file, visit that file with C-x C-f, ;; then enter the text in that file's own buffer.
My preferred environment is the XEmacs embedded editor/operating system. For the beginner, it's equally hard to use on all platforms, but certainly worth taking a couple of years to study in it's own right (after all, some people study stellar dust...). Having done so, you begin to wonder how Word users can live without cutting and pasting rectangular text fragments or why people need to change between multiple programs in order to carry out different tasks.
Sorry, I need to go now somebody has yanked my kill ring... M-x doctor, M-x kill-emacs, and good-bye.
So what Microsoft is trying to patent is known in LISP as (not (eq a b)) for a long time already:(
...and the technique of using short-cut for the equality
(define (IsNot x y) (not (eq a b)))
also has a terminus technicus in the LISP world (because it's useful, but a no-brainer): it is commonly referred to as syntactic sugar. That's all there is to this, sorry Microsoft.
The good things is that everybody can actually
use the operator because the patent (if granted) won't be upheld in court.
Having said this, everybody please move on now and
get back to your source code windows, folks, so that the debate may not adversely affect productivity of the OS community, because after all that's what scares M$ the most and makes them want to protect such no-brainers in the first place.;-)
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Next thing is they attach RFIDs to those poor creatures that contain their DNA in machine-readable form in order to use an SHA hash as a key to the species database.
Yes, sharing information makes science possible, and its even more pervasive than that.
It's really everywhere: parents share their experience with their children, friends rely on each others advice, gouvernments may (or may not) listen to their advisors, pointy-haired bosses listen (but may act contrary to) expert advice from employees.
Sharing is what turns individuals into societies, a pre-requisite for cultural achievements far beyond what a single person could achieve.
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I have very high respect for who is perhaps the most persevering personality that I have ever heard of.
However I agree with you in that I'd prefer Dr
Knuth to proceed with the completion of his book
series in a breadth-first fashion rather than
depth-first (i.e., dropping the habit to take a few years off to revise all existing volumes every couple of years). This would even able other people to assist him in refining the set and filling in the gaps; maybe he could even set up a wiki for the non-existing volumes to gather material in a more "open source" way.
But then who am I to tell the Aristotle of computer science what to do...
The Patriot Act insists that they not divulge that they have done this, even though what they are doing is clearly illegal (here). As a result, all American software and services are now being put under scrutiny.
British obsessed with pub quizzes
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Americans love trivia. From the bookish facts of Jeopardy! to the daily dose of ESPN Sportscenter, trivia is as much a part of our pop culture as hot rods or baseball.
The UK population is even more keen on trivia, sometimes with dramatic consequences, according to this BBC news report.
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I'd suspect UK/US law to be similar regarding research use.
Annyong-haseo! Just make sure that if you use the robots for marking assignments, you should keep a PAPER TRAIL ;-)
-JLL
How about a copy of "USMA's Guide to the Use of the Metric System [SI edition]" each?
2. You don't have to use GCC to compile your project. (There are also commmercial compilers for C++, for example Intel has one.). Your Windows re-write of the project seems like a big waste just because your lawyers don't have a clue.
3. You don't have to open-source ALL your code, only the changes to the core Linux operating system. Surely you could have split your system into an application layer and an OS layer, only opening up the latter (probably with very limited use to your competitor compared to the former).
4. If your project management was unaware of the licensing situation before embarking on a project, that doesn't sound good, uh-oh. You had better try to silently move to work a more competent project leader.
Better luck next time!
The value of the Turing test depends a lot on the nature of the questions asked. Anybody can ask difficult questions that fellow humans fail to copy with, but not everybody knows what are difficult questions for computers (which may well be simple for humans). Thus, an Artificial Intelligence researcher should be a more suitable interviewer than a non-expert.
Good Example:
requesting the description of an emotion (recalling an event that typically invokes strong emotions)
Bad Example:8 )
Hard math (34589759847359874389574398+348792847982374983749
The nature of threats are changing over time. Global climate change is one of them, and in part believed to be responsible for more and more hurricanes.
As a countermeasure, many countries, but not the US (yet?), have signed the Kyoto Protocol.
Get your local rep to do something about it!
Quite right, LISP's parentheses blow everybody's mind, including Paul Graham's.
From Graham's "On Lisp" errata site: ,(b `,c))) has an extra close paren.
p. 85. `(,a
(((I) (wonder) (why)))
;-)
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He surely doesn't have to read it to understand how the system works...
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Get an MSc, then a PhD, then an MBA.
In your BSc, you have learned some fundamentals. An MSc/MA/MPhil will take you to the next level; you will be able to read research-level academic papers and get more in-depth knowledge of certain areas within CS, and in your Master's thesis you can practice academic writing yourself and get a tiny taste of what research is like.
This will prepare you for your PhD, where you you will be working independently and become a leading expert in a narrow sub-area of your preferred sub-discipline.
We can now say you've learned how (following the wording of the parent post, but please do keep on studying - lifelong learning is true path). Next learn why (again using the parent post's wording; I'd prefer to call it 'learning how' still, just that the 'how' relates to business at this rather than technology). An MBA is a fast-track way to get an overview over business matters (financing, marketing, strategy, management). Of course you can also get a job instead and pick things up on the fly if you can't get a scholarship and don't have any savings. The job is the slow way, the MBA faster, but you might not lust for much future school education at this stage.
Congratulations! - Now you are what they call over-qualified: you can see problems everywhere that nobody else can see; you discover programmers are using the wrong algorithms, academic papers are full of technical and methodological flaws, and everywhere management is badly organised and lacking strategic vision, all of which might disillusion you.
Your feeling at this stage probably resembles what your Zen master wants to create inside you when he or she beats you with a stick in order to enlighten you. Now take some time off and think about something really clever to do because you're approaching a good age for early retirement.
...and the technique of using short-cut for the equality
also has a terminus technicus in the LISP world (because it's useful, but a no-brainer): it is commonly referred to as syntactic sugar. That's all there is to this, sorry Microsoft.The good things is that everybody can actually use the operator because the patent (if granted) won't be upheld in court.
Having said this, everybody please move on now and get back to your source code windows, folks, so that the debate may not adversely affect productivity of the OS community, because after all that's what scares M$ the most and makes them want to protect such no-brainers in the first place. ;-)
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And cancer is not cancer until diagnosed?
Who still believes the 'security through obscurity' mantra these days?
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It's really everywhere: parents share their experience with their children, friends rely on each others advice, gouvernments may (or may not) listen to their advisors, pointy-haired bosses listen (but may act contrary to) expert advice from employees.
Sharing is what turns individuals into societies, a pre-requisite for cultural achievements far beyond what a single person could achieve.
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However I agree with you in that I'd prefer Dr Knuth to proceed with the completion of his book series in a breadth-first fashion rather than depth-first (i.e., dropping the habit to take a few years off to revise all existing volumes every couple of years). This would even able other people to assist him in refining the set and filling in the gaps; maybe he could even set up a wiki for the non-existing volumes to gather material in a more "open source" way.
But then who am I to tell the Aristotle of computer science what to do...
The solution to this is known: OPEN SOURCE.
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You mean...GOffice? :-O
The UK population is even more keen on trivia, sometimes with dramatic consequences, according to this BBC news report.
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Yes, but you can get standard European plugs into British power points with a little force even without your leatherman. ;-)