I don't know for sure, but I'd be willing to guess that no, there is no protection on the ipod. You can copy to unlimited ipods but you can only sync an ipod with one computer, so presumably any ipods with your purchased music on it are yours.
ya...because before people were using photoshop to make the currency they used to buy photoshop, which they used to make the currency they used to buy photoshop, which they used to make the currency to they used to buy photoshop....
And with Engineering, as a licenced Engineer, you are accountable to the public first, then your employer, then yourself. If you put your seal on something dangerous it's quite possible as an engineer that you end up in jail.
Often with software it's balancing conflicting demands, and it's usually better to save a few bucks and ship with a few bugs than to spend the money and do it properly. After all you can always patch your system once it's deployed.
Proper licencing and accountability would lead to developers who would be unwilling to compromise to a deadline, after all it's better to be fired than to end up in jail. I can see the value in licencing developers who work on systems can't fail without killing someone, but for a web browser or something it'll never fly.
When men first went to the moon it was EXACTLY like the construction of a gigantic metal wang. It was the US saying to the Russians "mine is bigger than yours".
Speaking of giant metal (concrete) wangs, come to Toronto some time and check out the CN tower.
Here's an idea for patent reform, allow counter suits against the patent office for granting a frivilous patent. At least they should pay for legal fees.
The comment was about open source software, and the point was if you are writing software for a company, and the product is competing with open source software, then the knowledge required to create the system is probably something that can be taught in a CS course (like my examples of a XML parser or wrapper class), or is a art form like GUI design.
Getting a little off topic, Chinese or Indians couldn't do what I do because they would actually need to be here to do it. I program, but programming skills are presupposed and that's not the value I bring to my job. Without getting into details, the value of my work is insight into and understanding of a very complicated system of business logic that has nothing to do with computer science. Also, being able to speak on a daily basis with the users of what I help to create improves the quality of my work.
I'm sure any competant programmer from China or India with good communication skills could come here and learn my job just fine, but at least then they would be paid first-world wages.
That really depends who you work for. I do development for a living as well, but mine is based on specialized business knowledge developing custom applications and processes. Open source software is very useful in this context because it allows stable components to be aquired at no cost (for example a C++ XML parser, or a cross platform wrapper on things like sockets/pipes/threads). This allows more time and money to go into the business logic.
If, on the other hand, you develop shrink wrap software for the mass market then open source can be detrimental. You now have no-cost compitition. However if that's what you're doing I don't see any reason your job shouldn't be outsourced to India or China.
And the point of that would be what? To prevent you from collecting treble damages?
It's the people creating the data who want the extra protection, they aren't going to go out of their way to allow other people to take their data...hell, if they wanted to do that they could still use a database and just not file suit.
When someone commits a crime we all pay for the police, courts and prisons. When someone gets sick (in Canada) we all pay to make them better. When someone is uneducated we all pay to smarten them up. As long as the fee is small enough ( $1 per month per DSL connection) it seems fair enough...at least we're not paying for court costs on all the subpoena's the RIAA is sending out.
Some companies do a shift to newer technologies to help their employees stay current. I've seen mainframe developers slowly go obsolete, and when they didn't get the message as the apps they were supporting got migrated, they were let go.
Doing things that are in the best intrest of the careers of your employees helps job satisifaction, and managers are often rated on the job satisification of their groups...i know my branch likes to lord it over other groups at company functions (in speeches) every chance they get:)
Ya, but people on slashdot are too lazy to read a hundred lines of HTML before posting comments, just imagine how few informed comments there will be if you needed to read a 500 page research paper:)
I suppose it depends what you want to get out of life. Given the choice between finding a cure for cancer while living just above the poverty line, or getting $150k to make web pages or something like that, I'd take the science job...but I know a lot of people wouldn't.
OK, that article was pretty stupid. A command line interface has nothing to do with adapting to computer logic, it's adapting to the conventions of the person who wrote the command line interface.
If you really want to adapt to computer logic, you would have to write programs to do whatever menial task you are trying to do at the moment, but that's just as stupid...want to find a file on your hard drive? it's not that hard, just read about the dirent struct and make a recursive search, it'll only take about 10 minutes, and to think you could have done it in 10 seconds.
Twice as many transistors isn't going to help you increase your clock speed faster than the switching time of the transistors you are using. There is such a thing as gate delay, and you couldn't make the processors of today with the transistors of twenty years ago, no matter how many you used.
Sure you can mod this funny, but when a country has a forign policy where the CIA assasinates elected leaders and was funding dictators and terrorists for the last 50 years, yes, I think you're asking for it.
Well...you can make the argument that programmers are shooting themselves in the foot developing free software, because if they are successful they will cost software companies business and ultimately result in unemployed programmers.
The thing is though if you're just doing straight coding, following a design for some software company, there's not much reason someone in India can't do it cheaper.
In the end free software is a good thing. If you want to keep working as a programmer in a first world country you'll probably eventually need to find a job where you are doing designs of custom software for a business anyway, and if that business is using some future version of Linux, OpenOffice, gcc, etc. they'll have more money to pay you.
Hotmail is available through OSX's Mail.app program, and a number of other mail applications such as evolution (so it says, never tried), through the use of the httpmailplugin.
How is a 35 hour work week weasily? Socialist, yes, but it's just a policy, I don't see anything weasily about it. In fact I don't see anything weasily about France at all.
Now the united states on the other hand, ignoring the UN then begging for help, and the media in the states with their fear mongering...i could see how that's weasily. Especially if you believe the media has alterior motives...in fact even if they don't, being driven purely by profit with no social concience is a little weasily too.
Ah hell, who cares what dilbert readers think anyway.
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I don't know for sure, but I'd be willing to guess that no, there is no protection on the ipod. You can copy to unlimited ipods but you can only sync an ipod with one computer, so presumably any ipods with your purchased music on it are yours.
ya...because before people were using photoshop to make the currency they used to buy photoshop, which they used to make the currency they used to buy photoshop, which they used to make the currency to they used to buy photoshop....
*boggle*
And with Engineering, as a licenced Engineer, you are accountable to the public first, then your employer, then yourself. If you put your seal on something dangerous it's quite possible as an engineer that you end up in jail.
Often with software it's balancing conflicting demands, and it's usually better to save a few bucks and ship with a few bugs than to spend the money and do it properly. After all you can always patch your system once it's deployed.
Proper licencing and accountability would lead to developers who would be unwilling to compromise to a deadline, after all it's better to be fired than to end up in jail. I can see the value in licencing developers who work on systems can't fail without killing someone, but for a web browser or something it'll never fly.
So who's the bigger geek, you for using 2^32 as an example of a really big number, or me for knowing that 4294967296 = 2^32?
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When men first went to the moon it was EXACTLY like the construction of a gigantic metal wang. It was the US saying to the Russians "mine is bigger than yours".
Speaking of giant metal (concrete) wangs, come to Toronto some time and check out the CN tower.
Until Apple implements a XAML renderer as well, and as we all know Apple makes the fastest personal computers on earth....*cough*....:)
Here's an idea for patent reform, allow counter suits against the patent office for granting a frivilous patent. At least they should pay for legal fees.
The comment was about open source software, and the point was if you are writing software for a company, and the product is competing with open source software, then the knowledge required to create the system is probably something that can be taught in a CS course (like my examples of a XML parser or wrapper class), or is a art form like GUI design.
Getting a little off topic, Chinese or Indians couldn't do what I do because they would actually need to be here to do it. I program, but programming skills are presupposed and that's not the value I bring to my job. Without getting into details, the value of my work is insight into and understanding of a very complicated system of business logic that has nothing to do with computer science. Also, being able to speak on a daily basis with the users of what I help to create improves the quality of my work.
I'm sure any competant programmer from China or India with good communication skills could come here and learn my job just fine, but at least then they would be paid first-world wages.
That really depends who you work for. I do development for a living as well, but mine is based on specialized business knowledge developing custom applications and processes. Open source software is very useful in this context because it allows stable components to be aquired at no cost (for example a C++ XML parser, or a cross platform wrapper on things like sockets/pipes/threads). This allows more time and money to go into the business logic.
If, on the other hand, you develop shrink wrap software for the mass market then open source can be detrimental. You now have no-cost compitition. However if that's what you're doing I don't see any reason your job shouldn't be outsourced to India or China.
And the point of that would be what? To prevent you from collecting treble damages?
It's the people creating the data who want the extra protection, they aren't going to go out of their way to allow other people to take their data...hell, if they wanted to do that they could still use a database and just not file suit.
When someone commits a crime we all pay for the police, courts and prisons. When someone gets sick (in Canada) we all pay to make them better. When someone is uneducated we all pay to smarten them up. As long as the fee is small enough ( $1 per month per DSL connection) it seems fair enough...at least we're not paying for court costs on all the subpoena's the RIAA is sending out.
Some companies do a shift to newer technologies to help their employees stay current. I've seen mainframe developers slowly go obsolete, and when they didn't get the message as the apps they were supporting got migrated, they were let go.
:)
Doing things that are in the best intrest of the careers of your employees helps job satisifaction, and managers are often rated on the job satisification of their groups...i know my branch likes to lord it over other groups at company functions (in speeches) every chance they get
Ya, but people on slashdot are too lazy to read a hundred lines of HTML before posting comments, just imagine how few informed comments there will be if you needed to read a 500 page research paper :)
I suppose it depends what you want to get out of life. Given the choice between finding a cure for cancer while living just above the poverty line, or getting $150k to make web pages or something like that, I'd take the science job...but I know a lot of people wouldn't.
But since when is ignorance of the law a valid defense? The essay is still completely irrelevant.
OK, that article was pretty stupid. A command line interface has nothing to do with adapting to computer logic, it's adapting to the conventions of the person who wrote the command line interface.
If you really want to adapt to computer logic, you would have to write programs to do whatever menial task you are trying to do at the moment, but that's just as stupid...want to find a file on your hard drive? it's not that hard, just read about the dirent struct and make a recursive search, it'll only take about 10 minutes, and to think you could have done it in 10 seconds.
Twice as many transistors isn't going to help you increase your clock speed faster than the switching time of the transistors you are using. There is such a thing as gate delay, and you couldn't make the processors of today with the transistors of twenty years ago, no matter how many you used.
Sure you can mod this funny, but when a country has a forign policy where the CIA assasinates elected leaders and was funding dictators and terrorists for the last 50 years, yes, I think you're asking for it.
Downloading my files from my desktop to a remote server? That doesn't make any sense...how about if i upload my files, am I exempt from the patent?
Well...you can make the argument that programmers are shooting themselves in the foot developing free software, because if they are successful they will cost software companies business and ultimately result in unemployed programmers.
The thing is though if you're just doing straight coding, following a design for some software company, there's not much reason someone in India can't do it cheaper.
In the end free software is a good thing. If you want to keep working as a programmer in a first world country you'll probably eventually need to find a job where you are doing designs of custom software for a business anyway, and if that business is using some future version of Linux, OpenOffice, gcc, etc. they'll have more money to pay you.
Sort of like this cartoon?
I think you skipped right over the "so long as you don't violate the same rights of any other individual", that's a very important moral principle.
Hotmail is available through OSX's Mail.app program, and a number of other mail applications such as evolution (so it says, never tried), through the use of the httpmail plugin.
How is a 35 hour work week weasily? Socialist, yes, but it's just a policy, I don't see anything weasily about it. In fact I don't see anything weasily about France at all.
Now the united states on the other hand, ignoring the UN then begging for help, and the media in the states with their fear mongering...i could see how that's weasily. Especially if you believe the media has alterior motives...in fact even if they don't, being driven purely by profit with no social concience is a little weasily too.
Ah hell, who cares what dilbert readers think anyway.
How would a blind person without a soundcard be using the internet? How are they getting information out of it?