don't get me started on dangling pointers... they're the work of the devil himself! ever notice how on paper they are usually depicted by a long spiked tail?
government mandated changeover. that could spell the end of this T.V. fad. Less than 100 years in the history of mankind can definately be considered a passing fad.
I for one welcome our new "Kill Your Television" overlords.
FFS, get out of Microsoft's pocket, Mr. U.S. Government. Get out of all corporate pockets. Neither the government nor corporations are held accountable for anything these days.
what kind of crazy destructor would Jesus have? something that destroys him, but then calls a different constructor of his same type that casts him to a type Spirit from a type Messiah? Or would the destructor create a different instance of Jesus alltogether?
Kent Beck was brought in, and he brought in the others. The project was canceled in Feb 2000, when it was apparent that it was still nowhere near done and the mainframes were still working after the drop-dead date.
So you're telling me that the basis of extreme programming is a failed and cancelled project? live and learn i guess.
god forbid! not only are they surfing the same webpages as you, your packets crossing the same wires as theirs, but they are breathing the same air as you too!
The more that new technology like this occurs and people begin finding it intrusive, the more business opportunities arise, such as opening a co-op grocery store, or even just a regular grocery store that has "sale" prices without the need for a club card, or RDIF tracking. With a little advertising, you could get the word out that you don't track your customers patterns, and you don't artificially hike the prices just because your shoppers don't carry a card.
But "Implementation as a whole", is that not just a "system" which they stated as not copyrightable?
This is all pretty interesting. I'm going to have to do some more fact finding, maybe find a lawyer, and go through the process to see what happens. US$30 isn't a whole lot to spend on a test run. Surely, it would probably cost a few hundred dollars for a consultation session with a lawyer though.
Interesting. Wondering myself what is involved, i went to the U.S. Copyright Office online.
I was pleased to see: Literary Works Register your book, manuscript, online work, pamphlet, poetry, report, test, automated database, computer program, or other text.
then, on the next page as step 1 of Literary Works, "Computer programs and databases also are considered literary works." however following at link of examples i found
"Computer Programs A "computer program" is a set of statements or instructions to be used directly or indirectly in a computer in order to bring about a certain result.
Copyright protection extends to all the copyrightable expression embodied in the computer program. Copyright protection is not available for ideas, program logic, algorithms, systems, methods, concepts, or layouts."
This lead me to a 4 page PDF File. It says what you need to submit and that it costs $30. It is a somewhat interesting read, but offers no explanation of what exactly is copyrightable if, as they previously said "Copyright protection is not available for ideas, program logic, algorithms, systems, methods, concepts, or layouts." That leaves me with nothing but comments, and *maybe* data structures. However data sctructures are nothing more than a layout of data in memory, or an idea encapsulating data layout.
No, salt accumulates in the oceans from the erosion of surface soils and rocks, as the minerals wash into larger bodies of water. This may mean that Mars once had rain.
Light rain do you think? Or down pouring torential rain? At one point it was maybe "raining cats and dogs" and you should be able to see cat and dog fossils in the sedimentary rock formations. I always knew cats were nuts, and had to be decendants of an alien race... just look at how they dominate their "owners". Dogs however, they seem very "down to earth" so to speak.
What does this mean for someone who just recently bought a stand-alone DVD player, and has a DVD drive on their computer which they wish to use to backup the DVD's they purchase?
While at a CompUSA or some other national computer store about 4 years ago(at least), while my sister was looking at computers I wandered into the game section. there was a demo of a skiing game. you put your finger in a little device like a pulse reader. it was rigidly attached, so it wouldn't move left or right. though you controlled the character in the game, through "willing" it somehow. Maybe the interface was pressure sensitive a bit, or maybe it reacted to small changes in your pulse, like "uh oh, i'm about to fall off the cliff (increase pulse)" and the character moved away from the cliff.
It was pretty interesting for about 5 minutes though. I forgot about it until now.
"It's simply going to be more secure than proprietary software."
Saying "simply" is a bad idea. It makes it sound like open source code is inherantly more secure... written, released, secure all in one fell swoop. Succesfull open source code might be more secure but it was work to make is so. It didn't just happen. People had to look at it, analyze it, use it, push it and do things to it that weren't meant to be done. That can happen with closed source exactly the same way. However, open source seems more accountable and verifiable to the outside world (in my opinion). Accountable in that they don't put 4 pages of EULA that must be agreed to before ever running the program(1), and that you can usually access the developers of the software if something is really fscked. Try getting through to a software engineer at microsoft if your machine keeps booting up into an unstable state and explore.exe or whatever it is keeps crashing on load. Verifiable in that you can view the source code, or hire someone to do so without NDA's or other contractual obligations to the owners of the source code.
I would have prefered, "Open source can be verified as secure, where closed source can not." But that isn't even perfect.
(1) question: does the GPL or BSD license have to be agreed to for simply executing a binary created by source code released under the GPL or BSD license? naively I assume it does not need to be agreed to, only if you redistribute.
Please, just please, I beg you to really call it "iPod Killer" when it hits the market.
That would just flat out rule, I don't care who the backing company is... Microsoft, SCO for that matter. Sure, you would be taken to court, rightfully so, but the press surrounding it would be amazing for your business!
Slashdot Mirror
Though "cut and paste" was limited to scrapbooks, creators of all stripes somehow managed to flourish.
the things we are cutting and pasting from is no longer magazines and newspapers, why should that change anything?
movies and websites are now our "scrapbooks" and nothing should be different.
don't get me started on dangling pointers... they're the work of the devil himself! ever notice how on paper they are usually depicted by a long spiked tail?
So we should carry Microsoft into it's nearby Cracks of Doom and throw them in? Woohoo! On the count of three, lift!
government mandated changeover. that could spell the end of this T.V. fad. Less than 100 years in the history of mankind can definately be considered a passing fad.
I for one welcome our new "Kill Your Television" overlords.
your' sis th ewrost post evre.
FFS, get out of Microsoft's pocket, Mr. U.S. Government. Get out of all corporate pockets. Neither the government nor corporations are held accountable for anything these days.
what kind of crazy destructor would Jesus have? something that destroys him, but then calls a different constructor of his same type that casts him to a type Spirit from a type Messiah? Or would the destructor create a different instance of Jesus alltogether?
weird wild stuff.
'wolf nipple chips! get em while they're hot!'
Kent Beck was brought in, and he brought in the others. The project was canceled in Feb 2000, when it was apparent that it was still nowhere near done and the mainframes were still working after the drop-dead date.
So you're telling me that the basis of extreme programming is a failed and cancelled project? live and learn i guess.
god forbid! not only are they surfing the same webpages as you, your packets crossing the same wires as theirs, but they are breathing the same air as you too!
eeeeek!
yep. when will the antitrust case versus Wal-Mart begin?
The more that new technology like this occurs and people begin finding it intrusive, the more business opportunities arise, such as opening a co-op grocery store, or even just a regular grocery store that has "sale" prices without the need for a club card, or RDIF tracking. With a little advertising, you could get the word out that you don't track your customers patterns, and you don't artificially hike the prices just because your shoppers don't carry a card.
But "Implementation as a whole", is that not just a "system" which they stated as not copyrightable?
This is all pretty interesting. I'm going to have to do some more fact finding, maybe find a lawyer, and go through the process to see what happens. US$30 isn't a whole lot to spend on a test run. Surely, it would probably cost a few hundred dollars for a consultation session with a lawyer though.
Interesting. Wondering myself what is involved, i went to the U.S. Copyright Office online.
I was pleased to see:
Literary Works
Register your book, manuscript, online work, pamphlet, poetry, report, test, automated database, computer program, or other text.
then, on the next page as step 1 of Literary Works, "Computer programs and databases also are considered literary works." however following at link of examples i found
"Computer Programs
A "computer program" is a set of statements or instructions to be used directly or indirectly in a computer in order to bring about a certain result.
Copyright protection extends to all the copyrightable expression embodied in the computer program. Copyright protection is not available for ideas, program logic, algorithms, systems, methods, concepts, or layouts."
This lead me to a 4 page PDF File. It says what you need to submit and that it costs $30. It is a somewhat interesting read, but offers no explanation of what exactly is copyrightable if, as they previously said "Copyright protection is not available for ideas, program logic, algorithms, systems, methods, concepts, or layouts." That leaves me with nothing but comments, and *maybe* data structures. However data sctructures are nothing more than a layout of data in memory, or an idea encapsulating data layout.
I don't get it.
No, salt accumulates in the oceans from the erosion of surface soils and rocks, as the minerals wash into larger bodies of water. This may mean that Mars once had rain.
Light rain do you think? Or down pouring torential rain? At one point it was maybe "raining cats and dogs" and you should be able to see cat and dog fossils in the sedimentary rock formations. I always knew cats were nuts, and had to be decendants of an alien race... just look at how they dominate their "owners". Dogs however, they seem very "down to earth" so to speak.
What does this mean for someone who just recently bought a stand-alone DVD player, and has a DVD drive on their computer which they wish to use to backup the DVD's they purchase?
anything?
good for you. these things are so lame. i wish more people would quit these or ignore them.
While at a CompUSA or some other national computer store about 4 years ago(at least), while my sister was looking at computers I wandered into the game section. there was a demo of a skiing game. you put your finger in a little device like a pulse reader. it was rigidly attached, so it wouldn't move left or right. though you controlled the character in the game, through "willing" it somehow. Maybe the interface was pressure sensitive a bit, or maybe it reacted to small changes in your pulse, like "uh oh, i'm about to fall off the cliff (increase pulse)" and the character moved away from the cliff.
It was pretty interesting for about 5 minutes though. I forgot about it until now.
"It's simply going to be more secure than proprietary software."
Saying "simply" is a bad idea. It makes it sound like open source code is inherantly more secure... written, released, secure all in one fell swoop. Succesfull open source code might be more secure but it was work to make is so. It didn't just happen. People had to look at it, analyze it, use it, push it and do things to it that weren't meant to be done. That can happen with closed source exactly the same way. However, open source seems more accountable and verifiable to the outside world (in my opinion). Accountable in that they don't put 4 pages of EULA that must be agreed to before ever running the program(1), and that you can usually access the developers of the software if something is really fscked. Try getting through to a software engineer at microsoft if your machine keeps booting up into an unstable state and explore.exe or whatever it is keeps crashing on load. Verifiable in that you can view the source code, or hire someone to do so without NDA's or other contractual obligations to the owners of the source code.
I would have prefered, "Open source can be verified as secure, where closed source can not." But that isn't even perfect.
(1) question: does the GPL or BSD license have to be agreed to for simply executing a binary created by source code released under the GPL or BSD license? naively I assume it does not need to be agreed to, only if you redistribute.
Remember MP3? It's back! In Pog form.
are you telling me you would not probe one of thesei e=UTF-8 &oe=UTF-8&safe=off&q=nice+ass&sa=N&tab =wi
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i won't probe Google with safe=off while at work, thats for damn sure.
Aw crap.
What am I more surprised at:
a) UFO's seen from Mars? or
2) Today isn't still March 11th?
I'm fsck'd, I better start getting out more often.
do you mean imply probing a human anus is worthwhile?
aliens aren't exactly giving colonoscopies, believe you me!
come on, News for Nerds here. we know what a UFO is.
Was it unidentified? yes. Give me a "U"!
Was it flying? ok, maybe falling, but still.. Give me an "F"!
Was it an object? yes. Give me an "O"!
what's that spell? UFO!
UFOOPL: Unidentified Flying Object Oriented Programming Language?
Well it sounded like someone was afraid that a clone like this would be legally threatened by Apple. That interpretation is where I was comming from.
I agree with you though, on all points.
Please, just please, I beg you to really call it "iPod Killer" when it hits the market.
That would just flat out rule, I don't care who the backing company is... Microsoft, SCO for that matter. Sure, you would be taken to court, rightfully so, but the press surrounding it would be amazing for your business!