It's $69 for students at my school, according to apple's online store.
If you want to bring academic prices in this argument, MS operating systems like Windows XP Professional and Windows Server 2003 are free to CS students. Same with most other MS products through their MSDN Academic Alliance program. They're really fighting a battle in the academic arena, mostly in response to Linux.
Microsoft provides full support for their products for 5 years after release and business products get an additional 2 years of patches.
Don't forget about all the bugs. Gator has caused so many problems with Internet Explorer that Microsoft dedicated several knowledge base articles to it. Mostly erroneous "cannot find server or dns error" errors, and sometimes crashes.
Docking the pay of a person who accepted the patent would pretty much guarantee you'd have nobody working at the USPTO.
Or it would mean that people working for the USPTO would take their work seriously. Only the workers that chat, play games, or jack off to porn all day will be hurt enough by this to quit their jobs. I'm sure many have noticed that blindly approving patent applications makes their jobs easier by several orders of magnitude, not caring that it also makes work that much harder for countless others. Even better would be to uninstall Solitaire from all government desktops running Windows.
If you want some sort of preview release, try the Mozilla Standalone Composer. It's a couple weeks old, and released by the same person who's now head of the Nvu project.
I didn't mean to suggest that their stock would reach its 2000 levels, just that it will probably increase as a result of the initial success of their new product and pricing scheme. Their survival depends greatly on their ability to get out of the nearly dead overpriced_incompatible_super_servers_with_five_fi gure_per_cpu_licensing market, and their chances of doing it look a lot better than they did a couple months ago. They've have a lot of talent, and are finally refocusing it on more viable products and services.
Perhaps their stock will go up in the coming weeks. If Sun does in fact have a future that doesn't end in bankruptcy or in the belly of some other corporation, then their stock price been seriously undervalued for quite some time now, at 1/20th of what it was in 2000.
I don't have a copy of the game, but I'm downloading the source anyway. I would have expected that any open sourcing of a well known commercial software product would be front page material, but I guess someone disagrees.
If you came up with the idea on the job, and suggested it to them, they can use it. Same goes if you signed an agreement saying they can use any other ideas of yours. Them patenting it just means they really like your ideas, since it costs so much to get a patent. Maybe it'll help you get future pay raises. If not, you can mention on your resume that some of your ideas have been patented.
I for one despise patents, mainly the fact that they can prevent you from using an idea, or punish you after the fact, even if you came up with the idea entirely on your own. Protecting an idea from being stolen is one thing. Stealing the fruits of others' ideas just because you came up with it first and sat on it is something entirely different and wrong. Its like a form of slavery, selling our rights to anyone who has deep enough pockets.
The exemptions only applies to circumvention of protection schemes and other methods used to control access. Actually pirating the software is still illegal.
The supreme court rules that all copyrights are null and void, except for those claimed by SCO. Darl McBride, in his usual state of absolute clairvoyance, responded, "I have always been confident that the courts would rule in favor of our Intellectual Property Claims. After all, programmers only exist to serve the non-technical elite, and don't deserve rights of their own. All hail the fair and benevolent insect queen!"
I encountered a nasty one a few years back that was just spyware without any ads as far as I could tell. When the site it contacted went down, it started retrying after every single pageload, causing IE to freeze for about 10 seconds each time. I found little about its origin. Its name was simply "Tracker". It didn't run at startup, but instead was an IE helper. I removed it and unchecked the "Enable third party browser extensions" option in Internet Explorer.
"serious question - how many serious accounting packages are being worked on in the open-source world? It's exactly the kind of software hackers usually denigrate..."
If you search for "accounting" on sourceforge.net, you'll find several.
Having real world experience is pretty good. Anyone can study for a test, especially when there are condensed study/answer guides to every common test at your local bookstore. And there are several skills that aren't easily measured with tests. It's no substitute for a decent portfolio. Crammed knowledge fades quickly when not in use.
It has always been my feeling that those tests are out there to make money selling answer books to people planning to take the test, then charging them hundreds more to take the test. Then they run these massive campaigns to encourage employers to require potential employees to have taken and passed their silly tests.
A spying, ad popping trojan that's probably even illegal if anyone wanted to give it a shot in court.
If they had any decency whatsoever, their popups would have the word "Gator" in the title bar, so that unexperienced users know who's responsible. Otherwise they're committing libel against whichever company who's website was displayed when Gator's spy/adware popped up the ad. They should not go around threatening website owners, many of whom have been hurt by the image portayed to some users by those popups, with charges of libel when all they've done is use the terms spyware and adware interchangeably.
Most of our systems are set to auto-update weekly from windows update.
We're behind a firewall/nat and running Symantec Antivirus Corporate edition. Our server checks for new virus definitions daily. It does a good job of catching viruses on the systems of those who insist on using Eudora with IE rendering. Virus problems are very rare, and most of the alerts I send out are to remind people to patch their home pc's.
We've thought about using Microsoft's Software Update Services to reduce the number of downloads involved with auto-updates, but so far it hasn't been too big of a bandwidth hog and our server doesn't meet the advertised requirements for SUS.
He's comparing different priced setups. An IDE RAID setup of equal cost and capacity to the SCSI would probably have faired much better in the benchmark.
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It's $69 for students at my school, according to apple's online store.
If you want to bring academic prices in this argument, MS operating systems like Windows XP Professional and Windows Server 2003 are free to CS students. Same with most other MS products through their MSDN Academic Alliance program. They're really fighting a battle in the academic arena, mostly in response to Linux.
Microsoft provides full support for their products for 5 years after release and business products get an additional 2 years of patches.
Don't forget about all the bugs. Gator has caused so many problems with Internet Explorer that Microsoft dedicated several knowledge base articles to it. Mostly erroneous "cannot find server or dns error" errors, and sometimes crashes.
You're getting your public and symmetric key lengths mixed up.
Supposedly, 128-bit RSA can be factored in a few seconds or less most home pc's.
Docking the pay of a person who accepted the patent would pretty much guarantee you'd have nobody working at the USPTO.
Or it would mean that people working for the USPTO would take their work seriously. Only the workers that chat, play games, or jack off to porn all day will be hurt enough by this to quit their jobs. I'm sure many have noticed that blindly approving patent applications makes their jobs easier by several orders of magnitude, not caring that it also makes work that much harder for countless others. Even better would be to uninstall Solitaire from all government desktops running Windows.
If you want some sort of preview release, try the Mozilla Standalone Composer. It's a couple weeks old, and released by the same person who's now head of the Nvu project.
I didn't mean to suggest that their stock would reach its 2000 levels, just that it will probably increase as a result of the initial success of their new product and pricing scheme. Their survival depends greatly on their ability to get out of the nearly dead overpriced_incompatible_super_servers_with_five_fi gure_per_cpu_licensing market, and their chances of doing it look a lot better than they did a couple months ago. They've have a lot of talent, and are finally refocusing it on more viable products and services.
Perhaps their stock will go up in the coming weeks. If Sun does in fact have a future that doesn't end in bankruptcy or in the belly of some other corporation, then their stock price been seriously undervalued for quite some time now, at 1/20th of what it was in 2000.
I don't have a copy of the game, but I'm downloading the source anyway. I would have expected that any open sourcing of a well known commercial software product would be front page material, but I guess someone disagrees.
If you came up with the idea on the job, and suggested it to them, they can use it. Same goes if you signed an agreement saying they can use any other ideas of yours. Them patenting it just means they really like your ideas, since it costs so much to get a patent. Maybe it'll help you get future pay raises. If not, you can mention on your resume that some of your ideas have been patented.
I for one despise patents, mainly the fact that they can prevent you from using an idea, or punish you after the fact, even if you came up with the idea entirely on your own. Protecting an idea from being stolen is one thing. Stealing the fruits of others' ideas just because you came up with it first and sat on it is something entirely different and wrong. Its like a form of slavery, selling our rights to anyone who has deep enough pockets.
The exemptions only applies to circumvention of protection schemes and other methods used to control access. Actually pirating the software is still illegal.
The supreme court rules that all copyrights are null and void, except for those claimed by SCO. Darl McBride, in his usual state of absolute clairvoyance, responded, "I have always been confident that the courts would rule in favor of our Intellectual Property Claims. After all, programmers only exist to serve the non-technical elite, and don't deserve rights of their own. All hail the fair and benevolent insect queen!"
I encountered a nasty one a few years back that was just spyware without any ads as far as I could tell. When the site it contacted went down, it started retrying after every single pageload, causing IE to freeze for about 10 seconds each time. I found little about its origin. Its name was simply "Tracker". It didn't run at startup, but instead was an IE helper. I removed it and unchecked the "Enable third party browser extensions" option in Internet Explorer.
Well, if I thought goatse.cx was as funny as you do, I might not be a big Far Side fan either.
I keep a box of all the pages I've torn off the Far Side calendars, in order to re-read them at a later date.
"serious question - how many serious accounting packages are being worked on in the open-source world? It's exactly the kind of software hackers usually denigrate..."
If you search for "accounting" on sourceforge.net, you'll find several.
Wow.
A printed copy would be like 50000 pages right?
They should have adoption ads like the animal shelter has for pets.
I liked the part where he describes how most bad open source projects die in a darwinistic fashion while most bad microsoft projects limp on forever.
Having real world experience is pretty good. Anyone can study for a test, especially when there are condensed study/answer guides to every common test at your local bookstore. And there are several skills that aren't easily measured with tests. It's no substitute for a decent portfolio. Crammed knowledge fades quickly when not in use.
It has always been my feeling that those tests are out there to make money selling answer books to people planning to take the test, then charging them hundreds more to take the test. Then they run these massive campaigns to encourage employers to require potential employees to have taken and passed their silly tests.
A spying, ad popping trojan that's probably even illegal if anyone wanted to give it a shot in court.
If they had any decency whatsoever, their popups would have the word "Gator" in the title bar, so that unexperienced users know who's responsible. Otherwise they're committing libel against whichever company who's website was displayed when Gator's spy/adware popped up the ad. They should not go around threatening website owners, many of whom have been hurt by the image portayed to some users by those popups, with charges of libel when all they've done is use the terms spyware and adware interchangeably.
Most of our systems are set to auto-update weekly from windows update.
We're behind a firewall/nat and running Symantec Antivirus Corporate edition. Our server checks for new virus definitions daily. It does a good job of catching viruses on the systems of those who insist on using Eudora with IE rendering. Virus problems are very rare, and most of the alerts I send out are to remind people to patch their home pc's.
We've thought about using Microsoft's Software Update Services to reduce the number of downloads involved with auto-updates, but so far it hasn't been too big of a bandwidth hog and our server doesn't meet the advertised requirements for SUS.
He's comparing different priced setups. An IDE RAID setup of equal cost and capacity to the SCSI would probably have faired much better in the benchmark.
"HAHA! Your hundred million dollar laser is no match for my tinfoil Captain Universe outfit."
Though it'd be funny to see all our enemies running around in shiny foil suits like the ones seen the old sci-fi tv shows.
Google should just block all French IP addresses. No more trademark infringement within their jurisdiction. Problem solved.
I knew the Linux 2.6 kernel was supposed to be faster and more scalable, but, damn, that's awesome.