A little arrogant of you isn't it? A Psychology degree isn't just psych 101 you know. There is real statistics, research and innovation in psychology as much as any of the more traditional sciences. Just because you don't have the knowledge & experience to comprehend what these people do and why it is valuable doesn't mean it isn't important.
Two points. I have an engineering degree, and friends in psychology. Almost any degree can be turned into a joke or real program with the proper selection of courses.
These are hard fields of study. But when that is what interests you, and you have a natural aptitude, it isn't impossible.
Other fields can be just as hard and challenging.
If you go to school, in a field you don't enjoy, and aren't good at, it will be hard.
Jobs, yes they can be hard to find, but there are lots out there. You think it is hard to get a job with a degree in your field, try to find a decent job as a HS dropout.
Personally, I just try to keep my memory usage below the physical memory in my machine, but I guess that's not always possible..."
No, it isn't really. Unless you don't use your computer. In some cases it makes sense to use your physical memory as disk cache rather than for unused applications. Swap out that sshd, and give the database server more memory. Swap out that screensaver and email client, give quake more.
Most people don't know much about investing or even money in general.
More then a few outstanding ideas have died or at least not lived up to their potentials due to bad implementation, planning or management.
Myself I'm not convinced 1 that google is a long term financially sound company. The IPO price will probaly be too high to justify what value they do have. And most importantly. There are probaly more established companies with a history of performance that will offer a better return with less risk.
This isn't really an internal memo as much as it's an ispirational message to 'rally the troops'.
I think it is just a written statement to get the competative juices flowing. MS is a big well funded company with a lot of very smart people. If they get those people motivated they will be able to do some pretty amazing things.
How do you debug a closed source module? What trying to solve a problem you realize the actual bug is due to this closed module, and you wasted all that time to find out that there is nothing you can do about it.
Better to just focus where your efforts are going to be useful, and eliminate those closed modules before you start.
That would be true if such a declaration was required to function. However it isn't, you can load code with any license you wish, therefore this is not required for interoperability, and such a defense wouldn't be valid.
One of the issues with closed source kernel modules is that some developers don't want to waste time debugging them. Since they aren't GPL, and there is no source, they feel their time can be better utilized in other places.
One way to note this is have each module announce its license to the kernel, and a method exists for this.
I think the intent is clearly to try and fool people into supporting this module, even if that person wishes to avoid supporting non GPL code.
I think this is very underhanded, and going to create significant ill will with some developers.
The thing is that the US justice system is fair and uncorrupt. Yes the penalty is unacceptable to us, but it isn't like they execute people in an overly unfair manner.
Countries routinely refuse to extradite people to countries with where they will be tortutured executed or otherwise punished without a fair trial, we call them refugees.
I acknowledge American courts aren't perfect, but I think the fact that this is relatively well known, and the constant fights to correct issues demonstrate that they do work, at least somewhat fairly. That being said the US must stop some of their crap, like not permitting/informing foreign citizens of their right to contact their embassies when charged/convicted or beign executed.
If it isn't an offense in the US, the US gov can't chase you down and harrass you. I think this would be abuse of authority or harrassement of some sort.
If it is a crime, currently it isn't all that clear how foreign governments can communicate, and get the information. Add in wildy divergent laws and you end up with people getting away with crimes because of red tape.
Lets take stealing credit card numbers as a hypothetical example. It may be illegal in one country to unlawfully posses this information, and the second it could be illegal to use this information. It might be hard to get the two jurisdictions to determine the legal authorization to release the information to each other and actually do anything. Ideally this treaty will just clear this up to the point where someone could be prosecuted for a crime like this.
when committed intentionally and without right: I read that to be if you're authorized, the tools are legal.
Many places have no gun rules/laws around schools, it is a criminal offence to bring a gun to a school. However properly authorized officials such as police are permitted to bring guns to schools.
The monopoly owner can not claim damages from when they became aware of infringement, and they initiate legal action. They can claim damages for the time before they knew of infringement.
Car companies don't the profit from selling gasoline.
Lock in consumable methods sometimes work, but if the profit is too large there is competition. Razor blades (I can now get generic refills), toner cartridges.
If you can make a good profit selling solar panels that last forever, someone will do this. I would.
Do you think the oil companies will ever push solar energy?
If it is patented they can't hide it, in fact patents are published for all to see.
Yes, they will. If they own the technology, and it offers a better return why wouldn't they? If it is the future why not get a head start on their competition, within a few years that they could handle competition.
When the code with a different license is distributed within an otherwise GPL source file I think it is clear that the resultant GPL+non GPL single file of code is a derived work.
In Ontario (Canada) certain professions are exempt from these limitations. Basically if you are a professional, the laws aren't the same.
This means, doctors and engineers can't just walk away at the end claiming "my work week is over", nor is there much penalty for the employer if they don't push you out.
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A little arrogant of you isn't it?
A Psychology degree isn't just psych 101 you know. There is real statistics, research and innovation in psychology as much as any of the more traditional sciences.
Just because you don't have the knowledge & experience to comprehend what these people do and why it is valuable doesn't mean it isn't important.
Two points.
I have an engineering degree, and friends in psychology.
Almost any degree can be turned into a joke or real program with the proper selection of courses.
These are hard fields of study. But when that is what interests you, and you have a natural aptitude, it isn't impossible.
Other fields can be just as hard and challenging.
If you go to school, in a field you don't enjoy, and aren't good at, it will be hard.
Jobs, yes they can be hard to find, but there are lots out there. You think it is hard to get a job with a degree in your field, try to find a decent job as a HS dropout.
Yes for inventions and improvements this is a good idea.
But basic research is less product related.
What is the commercial value of knowing which way a helium atom spins, or how much closer we can get to absolute zero.
How that will later effect us we can't even guess at now.
I like it.
Gives some good hints on how to avoid a scam.
Explains how the car dealers make money, and how you can save some.
If you don't understand how they make money off you, then you can't tell if they're ripping you off. If you know what is going on, you have a chance.
Good site, I recommend it.
Basic advice is spend less then you make.
Don't get into too much debt.
Save a bit (even a little bit)
If you don't know, don't use either.
If you don't know how to handle a weapon, you're a danger, to both yourself, and the general public.
(Properly used/maintained weapons shouldn't have functionality issues)
Legality
Freedom of speech always has restrictions.
Commercial speech is even more regulated.
Outright fraud and violation of other laws makes some spam illegal.
Selling drugs (ie viagra), porn (obscenity laws) is illegal in some places.
Some spammers hijack computers or use them without the owners consent. This is also illegal.
Most spamming is against the service contract that of the spammers ISP. Contract violation.
Many people do not want spam, and do not want to pay for it, this is why junk faxes are illegal.
Freedom of speech ends when you're yelling in my ear.
You make a big assumption, that this paper covers.
with a good understanding of requirements
How do you know the requirements if they aren't clearly specified?
Personally, I just try to keep my memory usage below the physical memory in my machine, but I guess that's not always possible..."
No, it isn't really. Unless you don't use your computer.
In some cases it makes sense to use your physical memory as disk cache rather than for unused applications.
Swap out that sshd, and give the database server more memory. Swap out that screensaver and email client, give quake more.
Most people don't know much about investing or even money in general.
More then a few outstanding ideas have died or at least not lived up to their potentials due to bad implementation, planning or management.
Myself I'm not convinced 1 that google is a long term financially sound company.
The IPO price will probaly be too high to justify what value they do have.
And most importantly. There are probaly more established companies with a history of performance that will offer a better return with less risk.
This isn't really an internal memo as much as it's an ispirational message to 'rally the troops'.
I think it is just a written statement to get the competative juices flowing. MS is a big well funded company with a lot of very smart people. If they get those people motivated they will be able to do some pretty amazing things.
How do you debug a closed source module?
What trying to solve a problem you realize the actual bug is due to this closed module, and you wasted all that time to find out that there is nothing you can do about it.
Better to just focus where your efforts are going to be useful, and eliminate those closed modules before you start.
That would be true if such a declaration was required to function.
However it isn't, you can load code with any license you wish, therefore this is not required for interoperability, and such a defense wouldn't be valid.
One of the issues with closed source kernel modules is that some developers don't want to waste time debugging them. Since they aren't GPL, and there is no source, they feel their time can be better utilized in other places.
One way to note this is have each module announce its license to the kernel, and a method exists for this.
I think the intent is clearly to try and fool people into supporting this module, even if that person wishes to avoid supporting non GPL code.
I think this is very underhanded, and going to create significant ill will with some developers.
GNU won't endore Debian anyway, as long as non-free is distributed via ftp.debian.org.
But where else will you get non DFSG compliant documentation, like that under the GNU FDL?
The thing is that the US justice system is fair and uncorrupt. Yes the penalty is unacceptable to us, but it isn't like they execute people in an overly unfair manner.
Countries routinely refuse to extradite people to countries with where they will be tortutured executed or otherwise punished without a fair trial, we call them refugees.
I acknowledge American courts aren't perfect, but I think the fact that this is relatively well known, and the constant fights to correct issues demonstrate that they do work, at least somewhat fairly.
That being said the US must stop some of their crap, like not permitting/informing foreign citizens of their right to contact their embassies when charged/convicted or beign executed.
If it isn't an offense in the US, the US gov can't chase you down and harrass you.
I think this would be abuse of authority or harrassement of some sort.
If it is a crime, currently it isn't all that clear how foreign governments can communicate, and get the information. Add in wildy divergent laws and you end up with people getting away with crimes because of red tape.
Lets take stealing credit card numbers as a hypothetical example. It may be illegal in one country to unlawfully posses this information, and the second it could be illegal to use this information. It might be hard to get the two jurisdictions to determine the legal authorization to release the information to each other and actually do anything. Ideally this treaty will just clear this up to the point where someone could be prosecuted for a crime like this.
when committed intentionally and without right:
I read that to be if you're authorized, the tools are legal.
Many places have no gun rules/laws around schools, it is a criminal offence to bring a gun to a school.
However properly authorized officials such as police are permitted to bring guns to schools.
Properly read I think this is okay.
The monopoly owner can not claim damages from when they became aware of infringement, and they initiate legal action.
They can claim damages for the time before they knew of infringement.
Car companies don't the profit from selling gasoline.
Lock in consumable methods sometimes work, but if the profit is too large there is competition.
Razor blades (I can now get generic refills), toner cartridges.
If you can make a good profit selling solar panels that last forever, someone will do this.
I would.
I can think of a few reasons.
1 Taxes are a big part of gas prices.
2 $2 isn't tha much, people pay more then this for a bottle of water.
Do you think the oil companies will ever push solar energy?
If it is patented they can't hide it, in fact patents are published for all to see.
Yes, they will. If they own the technology, and it offers a better return why wouldn't they?
If it is the future why not get a head start on their competition, within a few years that they could handle competition.
That is trademarks
Patents do not require that you defend them.
When the code with a different license is distributed within an otherwise GPL source file I think it is clear that the resultant GPL+non GPL single file of code is a derived work.
In Ontario (Canada) certain professions are exempt from these limitations.
Basically if you are a professional, the laws aren't the same.
This means, doctors and engineers can't just walk away at the end claiming "my work week is over", nor is there much penalty for the employer if they don't push you out.