This is an excellent example of "the pot calling the kettle black". I will have to remember this when my 1 year old nephew asks me what that phrase means.
In a sense we are already paying for online content in the form of banner ads, text ads, popups, popunders, "day passes", "free registrations", and the like.
Particularly since the expressed intention of copyright is to give protection to creaters for a limited time (and then have the work pass into public ownership)
Good point. I think the case here is the law not keeping up with technology: Printed materials degrade at a much slower rate than electronic media. If the government wants to impose lengthy copyright restrictions than they should be charged with preserving the copyrighted material until such a time as it passes into the public domain. The law was written at a time when copywrited material only existed as printed words and images.
Re:Preserve the Hardware as Well?
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Rather than preserving the hardware, if access to hardware specs., emulation, and binary decompilation are available, this is a much better strategy for long term preservation of the software. Would it even be possible to reverse engineer some of this hardware as well? I am assuming legal issues would not be a problem as this should be government sanctioned preservation work.
This probably falls under the category of fair use.
If it doesn't then there is still the matter of the government (the US at least) being able to do whatever it pleases with copywrited material. In this case the government's authority to copy what it wants is a good thing.
The Library of Congress is already making archival coppies of copywrited music and it is going to continue this dispite any hypothetical protestations of the RIAA. Why, because it is deemed neccessary for the preservation of culture. It will ultimately be the governement who will have the authority to do the kinds of backup that is neccessary to preserve our programming heritage.
It is our job as citizens to open the government's eyes to the need to copy this code before the technology that will allow us to do so becomes obsolete and otherwise unusable. Like any other technology programming will continue to advance but it is important to remember simpler the roots of the technology in order to provide the kind of perspective that lets us know where we've been and where we might be going.
If we look back at the early suits involving Microsoft and Apple, there may be indicators of how this might turn out. In that case Apple was suing Microsoft for duplicating the look and feel of their GUI but Apple didn't win. I don't know the details of what MS is claiming but does this qualify as a bonafied legal precident?
Re:I want to know how many websites use PERL .
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There is no real way for you to figure out how many websites use Perl but you could figure out how many are hosted on Apache. Then you can assume that if they are running Apache then their server probably has Perl installed....so you can get a count of sites that might possibly be using perl! Oh, and I use perl in my sites so there you go, add one to your count of sites that use perl.
Don't forget to consider the implementation of the buggytechture of your applications. It is important to give your users a reason to buy the next version.
I concur. Games are not neccesarily Art although Art can take the form of games.
In addition, he misses another big point, that being the concept of play. A successful game engages the subject in play. While the elements of fun, narrative, and aestetics enhance a game, the primary factor the defines a game is play.
Is it just me or does riaa.org seem to be down? All I get when I try to visit their site is: "?âÃ-?âÃ-HTTP/1.0 302 Moved Temporarily Location: http://www.r"
This is the best news I've heard all week. It is good to know that NASA has a timeline for the next shuttle launch. And I thought I was being optimistic thinking they would launch this time next year. This is a good omen amongst all of the scandals, lawsuits, and wars we've been reading about lately.
The Apple Macs come with a treasure trove of free programming tools that a beginner could use to learn the ropes. You could start off with Apple Script which seems like a pretty basic scripting language (although I have not tried it). You also have your choice of Java, Objective C, C, C++, and Perl. Some of those languages come installed with the OS and others you have to install from the developer CD which also comes free with OS X. There is also a fairly decent IDE that Apple has aptly named Project Developer. If I had this setup when I was a kid, I would be a super genius by now.
As far as the lack of BASIC goes: well, I don't miss basic and I don't miss Pascal either. There's nothing wrong with cutting your teeth on C.
eh... USB(2) is much cheaper than firewire. Besides, I don't think my keyboard really needs a firewire connection. I just don't type fast enought to warrant the need for an upgrade.
I am reminded of the book "The Cuckoo's Egg" where a system admin at a university tracks down a hacker using teletype machines to monitor the hacker's tracks. Highlights include the reading of reams of teletype hardcopies, and the creation of a honeypot: At one point the author types responses to the hacker, simulating the UNIX box. Wacky!
Was the development of the 970 chip by IBM a ploy by Apple to provide Motorola with a much needed kick in the rear? Moto seems to be playing catchup with it's PowerPC line lately.
I was hoping that this update would fix some annoying features of iSync. In order to get iSync to work with your Palm, you need to install Palm Desktop before iSync then do the hokey pokey and... well I forget how it goes. I first thought it would replace Palm Desktop but it does some sort of conduit interfacting with PD. I wanted to see this revision drop the complexities of getting iSync to work with my Palm but it looks like this has not happened....bummer.
Durring class: Buy a seperate ruled notebook for each class. This way notes for each class will be much easier to wade through. Take notes with a black pen. The black pens have higher contrast than blue pen and don't smudge like pencil. Some argue that pencil is waterproof (so get waterproof ink and that won't be a problem) and that pencil is eraseable (you won't have time to erase while notetaking; just cross out mistakes and move on).
Out of class: Utilize pencils (erasible because now you have time!), highlighters for notes, textbooks and the like, and pens for marking up printouts and photocoppies (red pen shows up better on a printout). Bring along your own computer to your dorm room. If you happen to have a laptop, that's great, you're mobile. It doesn't need to be a power-house; just enough to surf the net for research and blowing off steam, and printing papers. Basically you need a 'puter you can bang on when the labs are full or closed. Your school should have the computer facilities for any resource intensive computing you need to do.
Above all, ignore your technolust! Just use what works to get your learning done.
Re:Does anybody know...
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You must to purchase the G4. The G4 is your zen friend. Darwin came to me in a dream and he said "Pools of Aqua and wide Open Source await you. Run with the Jaguar."
It all depends on what you want out of your *nix. OS X is a stable, secure, highly usable port of Free BSD. Great for novices and hackers alike. If you want an OS that has all of the GNU you may be used to if you run Linux and the like, then steer clear because the mamoth porting job is not complete (for instance, there are some CPAN modules that I wanted to use the other day but aren't ported.) Download Darwin(x86 port...only lacks the GUI) if you want to poke around in the underpinnings of OS X before you buy. As a media junkie (video artist) and hacker (the benevolent type) I'm pretty happy with my OS X.
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This is an excellent example of "the pot calling the kettle black". I will have to remember this when my 1 year old nephew asks me what that phrase means.
In a sense we are already paying for online content in the form of banner ads, text ads, popups, popunders, "day passes", "free registrations", and the like.
From the book of Beatles "The best things in life are free."
That is totally out of context. So sue me. RIAA if you are listening, I didn't mean that litterally.
At least telemarketing provides jobs.
Spam provides jobs too in that someone has to write the filter programs so that we are saved from having to manually delete one more fsking spam.
Particularly since the expressed intention of copyright is to give protection to creaters for a limited time (and then have the work pass into public ownership) Good point. I think the case here is the law not keeping up with technology: Printed materials degrade at a much slower rate than electronic media. If the government wants to impose lengthy copyright restrictions than they should be charged with preserving the copyrighted material until such a time as it passes into the public domain. The law was written at a time when copywrited material only existed as printed words and images.
Rather than preserving the hardware, if access to hardware specs., emulation, and binary decompilation are available, this is a much better strategy for long term preservation of the software. Would it even be possible to reverse engineer some of this hardware as well? I am assuming legal issues would not be a problem as this should be government sanctioned preservation work.
This probably falls under the category of fair use.
If it doesn't then there is still the matter of the government (the US at least) being able to do whatever it pleases with copywrited material. In this case the government's authority to copy what it wants is a good thing.
The Library of Congress is already making archival coppies of copywrited music and it is going to continue this dispite any hypothetical protestations of the RIAA. Why, because it is deemed neccessary for the preservation of culture. It will ultimately be the governement who will have the authority to do the kinds of backup that is neccessary to preserve our programming heritage.
It is our job as citizens to open the government's eyes to the need to copy this code before the technology that will allow us to do so becomes obsolete and otherwise unusable. Like any other technology programming will continue to advance but it is important to remember simpler the roots of the technology in order to provide the kind of perspective that lets us know where we've been and where we might be going.
Maybe one day we can have international power lines where all the countries with lots of sunshine provide power to the rest of the world?
On the other hand, replace today's wires with some kind of high-current, high-temperature superconductor, and you're golden.
A hight-temperature superconductor would/could be a power line. So you are both right.
If we look back at the early suits involving Microsoft and Apple, there may be indicators of how this might turn out. In that case Apple was suing Microsoft for duplicating the look and feel of their GUI but Apple didn't win. I don't know the details of what MS is claiming but does this qualify as a bonafied legal precident?
There is no real way for you to figure out how many websites use Perl but you could figure out how many are hosted on Apache. Then you can assume that if they are running Apache then their server probably has Perl installed. ...so you can get a count of sites that might possibly be using perl! Oh, and I use perl in my sites so there you go, add one to your count of sites that use perl.
Don't forget to consider the implementation of the buggytechture of your applications. It is important to give your users a reason to buy the next version.
The best way to test on Safari while running windows is to buy a Mac, and run both computers at the same time.
...another medium (comic books) that is often dismissed by the "Fine Art" community.
That is simply not true. Take a look at Maus by Art Spiegelman which has received much recognition by the "Fine Art" community.
I concur. Games are not neccesarily Art although Art can take the form of games.
In addition, he misses another big point, that being the concept of play. A successful game engages the subject in play. While the elements of fun, narrative, and aestetics enhance a game, the primary factor the defines a game is play.
Game. Play. Get it? Good.
Is it just me or does riaa.org seem to be down?
All I get when I try to visit their site is:
"?âÃ-?âÃ-HTTP/1.0 302 Moved Temporarily Location: http://www.r"
This is the best news I've heard all week. It is good to know that NASA has a timeline for the next shuttle launch. And I thought I was being optimistic thinking they would launch this time next year. This is a good omen amongst all of the scandals, lawsuits, and wars we've been reading about lately.
The Apple Macs come with a treasure trove of free programming tools that a beginner could use to learn the ropes. You could start off with Apple Script which seems like a pretty basic scripting language (although I have not tried it). You also have your choice of Java, Objective C, C, C++, and Perl. Some of those languages come installed with the OS and others you have to install from the developer CD which also comes free with OS X. There is also a fairly decent IDE that Apple has aptly named Project Developer. If I had this setup when I was a kid, I would be a super genius by now.
As far as the lack of BASIC goes: well, I don't miss basic and I don't miss Pascal either. There's nothing wrong with cutting your teeth on C.
eh... USB(2) is much cheaper than firewire. Besides, I don't think my keyboard really needs a firewire connection. I just don't type fast enought to warrant the need for an upgrade.
But not in exactly the same manner:
I am reminded of the book "The Cuckoo's Egg" where a system admin at a university tracks down a hacker using teletype machines to monitor the hacker's tracks. Highlights include the reading of reams of teletype hardcopies, and the creation of a honeypot: At one point the author types responses to the hacker, simulating the UNIX box. Wacky!
Was the development of the 970 chip by IBM a ploy by Apple to provide Motorola with a much needed kick in the rear? Moto seems to be playing catchup with it's PowerPC line lately.
I was hoping that this update would fix some annoying features of iSync. In order to get iSync to work with your Palm, you need to install Palm Desktop before iSync then do the hokey pokey and ... well I forget how it goes. I first thought it would replace Palm Desktop but it does some sort of conduit interfacting with PD. I wanted to see this revision drop the complexities of getting iSync to work with my Palm but it looks like this has not happened. ...bummer.
Durring class: Buy a seperate ruled notebook for each class. This way notes for each class will be much easier to wade through. Take notes with a black pen. The black pens have higher contrast than blue pen and don't smudge like pencil. Some argue that pencil is waterproof (so get waterproof ink and that won't be a problem) and that pencil is eraseable (you won't have time to erase while notetaking; just cross out mistakes and move on).
Out of class: Utilize pencils (erasible because now you have time!), highlighters for notes, textbooks and the like, and pens for marking up printouts and photocoppies (red pen shows up better on a printout). Bring along your own computer to your dorm room. If you happen to have a laptop, that's great, you're mobile. It doesn't need to be a power-house; just enough to surf the net for research and blowing off steam, and printing papers. Basically you need a 'puter you can bang on when the labs are full or closed. Your school should have the computer facilities for any resource intensive computing you need to do.
Above all, ignore your technolust! Just use what works to get your learning done.
...and this ladies and gentlement is why the spammers win.
My Apple squashed your butterfly. Get over it!
You must to purchase the G4. The G4 is your zen friend. Darwin came to me in a dream and he said "Pools of Aqua and wide Open Source await you. Run with the Jaguar."
...only lacks the GUI) if you want to poke around in the underpinnings of OS X before you buy. As a media junkie (video artist) and hacker (the benevolent type) I'm pretty happy with my OS X.
It all depends on what you want out of your *nix. OS X is a stable, secure, highly usable port of Free BSD. Great for novices and hackers alike. If you want an OS that has all of the GNU you may be used to if you run Linux and the like, then steer clear because the mamoth porting job is not complete (for instance, there are some CPAN modules that I wanted to use the other day but aren't ported.) Download Darwin(x86 port