We really need to leave this planet someday. Not tomorrow, but better be prepared to leave, coz neither will the earth nor the solarsystem last forever.:-)
That's right! Hasn't anyone read Asimov's The Last Question?
I agree to the extent that exceptions should rarely be ignored, unless that's somehow built into the functionality of your app. Teaching someone bad coding practices because of a limitation in the development platform is bad advice.
Unplug it from the network/phone jack
Turn it off
Take the power supply out
Take the hard drive out and place it in a water tight zip lock bag
Take said bag/hard drive and drop it into the Marianas trench.
NetBEUI = Port 135
netBEUI is only required when you have non-Windows 2000 clients to support. However, NetBIOS over TCP/IP prevents any need for NetBEUI.
These days NetBEUI is the usual answer for connection problems that turn out to be name resolution or NetBIOS configuration problems.
The other ports listed, 139 and 445, are used for Server Message Block (which with Win2000 can run directly over TCP/IP rather than needing to run on top of NetBIOS) respectively. SMB is a file sharing protocol used in Windows. The attempt hits 445, and if it's succesful, it sends an RST to 139 (if NetBIOS is installed, otherwise 139 is never used). If there's no response from 445, it continues the SMB session over 139.
Our security team went nuts when this "released" last week. However, it's old news, and has had whitepapers our for quite some time on it. It's nothing more than NetBIOS, which is only needed when Win2k/XP needs to fileshare with
In other news, it's recently been discovered that you can lose all of the data on your 5 1/4" floppy by storing it on that large magnetic board on your wall...
You'd be amazed at the damage done by cartesian products.. or rather, where they come from. We have an ASP that provides us with data from a proprietary source, and they (data experts) were guilty of a cart.prod about a week ago.
Yeah, you could run my company out of employee id's fairly quickly that way.
Also, SELECT * is widely overused, and in the wrong contect, can bring DB's/networks to their knees. It should be pointed out in that comment that you should always SELECT only the fields you need returned to you.
Of course, another evil SELECT is SELECT INTO, creating a temp table without explicitly doing so in your query.
>>Maybe your friends should get involved in live performance, instead of expecting to do a small amount of work once and get paid for it the rest of their lives.
Do you have any idea how few artists, who do nothing but perform for a living, don't write their own songs? I wonder why that is? Maybe because writing a song that other people actually want to hear (and not just because they like to hang out in your garage) is difficult at best.
Once again, an example of the uneducated verbally (or in this case digitally) proving it.
Actually, having retired as a professional musician this year, I do know what I'm talking about. CD sales are THE ONLY royalty that songwriters recieve. There is a lot of talk about royalties paid by radio stations for airplay that BMI and ASCAP collect, but the fees are so small that they just take care of the research that went into the song licensing in the first place.
I have no problem at all with someone correcting me or explaining something to me, but don't tell me I have no idea what I'm talking about when I'm discussing an industry that used to put food on my table.
By the way, when did you work in the recording industry?
IANAL either, but am engaged to a cop who used to also bailiff, so maybe I have just a little more insight than the average Joe.
In Texas, you can request a jury trial in civil court for anything outside of small claims court (above $5,000 here). Also, it's not really a question of guilt, but the preponderance of evidence.... who is more believable.
That being said, the idea of jury nullification is pretty simple, and this countries founding fathers believed strongly in it, as well as our supreme court as recently as 1984. The jury, even in a criminal case, can decide that the law is really unfair, and rule outside of the law. "Yes, this person traded/copied files, but the copyright laws pertaining to this case are unjust."
Sorry... I just have to say this. Songwriters don't make a dime unless a physical cd sells. So to them it is stealing. Of course the sales model should change, and it appears to be, but I know several songwriters who have had to alter their lifestyles considerably, without having changed the number of cd cuts they get.
Of course, the economy is in the tanker right now too, but who at the RIAA has time to listen to Greenspan when they have all these filesharers to sue?
In civil trial you can also ask for a jury trial, which brings into question the idea of jury nullification. If the whole world is trading... er... copying songs, what jury would award damages to the RIAA?
I don't know about where you live, but down here in Houston, there aren't any contracts regarding OSS mods that I know of. It's easy to say "get a job where OSS is used heavily," but that's like saying "Get a job where Mac's are used heavily." There just aren't many around. I write MS code because there's plenty of work around. I goof off at home with other projects, but they aren't paying anything. Back to the idea that I like to eat...
>>In fact, most consultants give full copyright to the customer, which is even more generous than open-source licenses.
Consultant's don't "give" the source code to the customer. They are paid to write the source code for the customer. There's a difference there. Either you make money off of the licensing or you make money off of the time you spend writing it.
I'm not trying to be a jerk and arguementative, but we're obviously not seeing the whole picture the same way. I'm curious... what methods of income does OSS provide besides Licensing and the honor system?
There are many reasons that software development is unlike truck mechanics. When you buy a truck, there is only one way to replace the starter. There is one standard fuel/asparation system for the particular model you've bought. There is no API that ships with the trucks onboard computer however. Where's the source code in that?
As a programmer, I either write code for someone and it becomes theirs, or I write an app and sell the binaries. When I sell the binaries, I don't feel any obligation to give someone the source code... that would eliminate the income stream I've realized by taking the time to come up with a way to handle tasks that someone else feels is worth purchasing. If someone were to demand the source code (which has never happened in the latter case) I would tell them something along the lines of "no.. if you don't like it buy something else."
Sorry, I'm in it for the money. I have an urge to eat, wear clothes, and own some sort of structure where I store my valuables and sleep. Luckily, I was born in a capitalist society where all of that is possible.
The point was that it's ridiculous to demand the source code for software. Either it works or it doesn't. If it doesn't, buy something else. Hmmm, seems 96% of the pc market is buying Windows... I suppose it works.
I really have nothing against OSS/GNU OS's/software. Well, except for one thing... branching. In my opinion there are way too many linux distros, which could very well be one of the things keeping the common home pc buyer from trying Linux en masse. Just an opinion, though.
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I suppose you've never heard of the Whiskey Rebellion, the Nat Turner Rebellion, Nat Bacon's Rebellion, Shay's Rebellion, and countless others (including that whole revolution thing in 1776).
We have a proud history of inciting violent revolts on this side of the pond!
We really need to leave this planet someday. Not tomorrow, but better be prepared to leave, coz neither will the earth nor the solarsystem last forever. :-)
That's right! Hasn't anyone read Asimov's The Last Question?
Actually, it was released on CD... one of the first CD's I bought, along with 90125 by Yes.
I agree to the extent that exceptions should rarely be ignored, unless that's somehow built into the functionality of your app. Teaching someone bad coding practices because of a limitation in the development platform is bad advice.
Grace Under Pressure (1984).
Unplug it from the network/phone jack
Turn it off
Take the power supply out
Take the hard drive out and place it in a water tight zip lock bag
Take said bag/hard drive and drop it into the Marianas trench.
Actually, 135, 139, and 445.
NetBEUI = Port 135 netBEUI is only required when you have non-Windows 2000 clients to support. However, NetBIOS over TCP/IP prevents any need for NetBEUI. These days NetBEUI is the usual answer for connection problems that turn out to be name resolution or NetBIOS configuration problems. The other ports listed, 139 and 445, are used for Server Message Block (which with Win2000 can run directly over TCP/IP rather than needing to run on top of NetBIOS) respectively. SMB is a file sharing protocol used in Windows. The attempt hits 445, and if it's succesful, it sends an RST to 139 (if NetBIOS is installed, otherwise 139 is never used). If there's no response from 445, it continues the SMB session over 139.
>>which is only needed when Win2k/XP needs to fileshare with
Oops, somehow the end of this sentence was lopped off. should have read...
which is only needed when Win2k/XP needs to fileshare with NT4.0/9x
Our security team went nuts when this "released" last week. However, it's old news, and has had whitepapers our for quite some time on it. It's nothing more than NetBIOS, which is only needed when Win2k/XP needs to fileshare with
In other news, it's recently been discovered that you can lose all of the data on your 5 1/4" floppy by storing it on that large magnetic board on your wall...
You'd be amazed at the damage done by cartesian products.. or rather, where they come from. We have an ASP that provides us with data from a proprietary source, and they (data experts) were guilty of a cart.prod about a week ago.
Yeah, you could run my company out of employee id's fairly quickly that way.
Also, SELECT * is widely overused, and in the wrong contect, can bring DB's/networks to their knees. It should be pointed out in that comment that you should always SELECT only the fields you need returned to you.
Of course, another evil SELECT is SELECT INTO, creating a temp table without explicitly doing so in your query.
Truth to that...
In Texas that can't happen.. the jury's word is final. And since the US Supreme Court has ruled several times in favor of the jury nullification, you could easily appeal and overturn a judges ruling. See Jury Nullification, Jury NullificationSupreme Court Justice comments/a.
>>Maybe your friends should get involved in live performance, instead of expecting to do a small amount of work once and get paid for it the rest of their lives.
Do you have any idea how few artists, who do nothing but perform for a living, don't write their own songs? I wonder why that is? Maybe because writing a song that other people actually want to hear (and not just because they like to hang out in your garage) is difficult at best.
Once again, an example of the uneducated verbally (or in this case digitally) proving it.
Actually, having retired as a professional musician this year, I do know what I'm talking about. CD sales are THE ONLY royalty that songwriters recieve. There is a lot of talk about royalties paid by radio stations for airplay that BMI and ASCAP collect, but the fees are so small that they just take care of the research that went into the song licensing in the first place.
I have no problem at all with someone correcting me or explaining something to me, but don't tell me I have no idea what I'm talking about when I'm discussing an industry that used to put food on my table.
By the way, when did you work in the recording industry?
IANAL either, but am engaged to a cop who used to also bailiff, so maybe I have just a little more insight than the average Joe.
In Texas, you can request a jury trial in civil court for anything outside of small claims court (above $5,000 here). Also, it's not really a question of guilt, but the preponderance of evidence.... who is more believable.
That being said, the idea of jury nullification is pretty simple, and this countries founding fathers believed strongly in it, as well as our supreme court as recently as 1984. The jury, even in a criminal case, can decide that the law is really unfair, and rule outside of the law. "Yes, this person traded/copied files, but the copyright laws pertaining to this case are unjust."
Sorry... I just have to say this. Songwriters don't make a dime unless a physical cd sells. So to them it is stealing. Of course the sales model should change, and it appears to be, but I know several songwriters who have had to alter their lifestyles considerably, without having changed the number of cd cuts they get.
Of course, the economy is in the tanker right now too, but who at the RIAA has time to listen to Greenspan when they have all these filesharers to sue?
In civil trial you can also ask for a jury trial, which brings into question the idea of jury nullification. If the whole world is trading... er... copying songs, what jury would award damages to the RIAA?
Interesting that "C Sharp" and "VB" weren't added to the searches...
You mean the java whose creator wrote this???
Actually, when you consider that most Chinese and a good number of Indianpeople speak English, 50% is fairly accurate.
The current world population (estimated).
I don't know about where you live, but down here in Houston, there aren't any contracts regarding OSS mods that I know of. It's easy to say "get a job where OSS is used heavily," but that's like saying "Get a job where Mac's are used heavily." There just aren't many around. I write MS code because there's plenty of work around. I goof off at home with other projects, but they aren't paying anything. Back to the idea that I like to eat...
>>In fact, most consultants give full copyright to the customer, which is even more generous than open-source licenses.
Consultant's don't "give" the source code to the customer. They are paid to write the source code for the customer. There's a difference there. Either you make money off of the licensing or you make money off of the time you spend writing it.
I'm not trying to be a jerk and arguementative, but we're obviously not seeing the whole picture the same way. I'm curious... what methods of income does OSS provide besides Licensing and the honor system?
There are many reasons that software development is unlike truck mechanics. When you buy a truck, there is only one way to replace the starter. There is one standard fuel/asparation system for the particular model you've bought. There is no API that ships with the trucks onboard computer however. Where's the source code in that?
As a programmer, I either write code for someone and it becomes theirs, or I write an app and sell the binaries. When I sell the binaries, I don't feel any obligation to give someone the source code... that would eliminate the income stream I've realized by taking the time to come up with a way to handle tasks that someone else feels is worth purchasing. If someone were to demand the source code (which has never happened in the latter case) I would tell them something along the lines of "no.. if you don't like it buy something else."
Sorry, I'm in it for the money. I have an urge to eat, wear clothes, and own some sort of structure where I store my valuables and sleep. Luckily, I was born in a capitalist society where all of that is possible.
The point was that it's ridiculous to demand the source code for software. Either it works or it doesn't. If it doesn't, buy something else. Hmmm, seems 96% of the pc market is buying Windows... I suppose it works.
I really have nothing against OSS/GNU OS's/software. Well, except for one thing... branching. In my opinion there are way too many linux distros, which could very well be one of the things keeping the common home pc buyer from trying Linux en masse. Just an opinion, though.