My notes consisted of just what it was I was unlikely to understand, and 95% in my own words. (Not so slam on the profs and TA's, but a deep accent and broken english was the rule). If I was going to remember how 'X' worked, or was going to remember that 'foo' function was N^2+1, I simply didn't write it down or did a "Gave 20 min speech on doubly linked lists to clarify 'blazoom'"
Granted, I attended my classes, and when I couldn't the material that had been covered was usually made clear ahead of time.. (IE, "In sie next lechtuer vie vill cohvering Reverse-length Klaxon processing."
I saw plenty of students that directly copied, but as most of them were the challenge cases I took on tutoring, I would never in a million years write them off as 'typical', and it obviously did them no good. A buddy of mine did purchase notes up front from a former student (Cheap, like 'gimme a copy of your old notes and I'll buy you a sixer of that beer you like), for a couple classes. His feeling was that it sucked and didn't really give him any edge.
Don't get me wrong; I think that people selling notes is a shitty thing to do, and only breeds malfeasance. You get 'Little Mr/Miss Party' thinking they can just snag the notes for a couple hundred bucks total for the load and be done with those pesky morning classes, and bombing European History for a quick trip back to Mommy, Daddy, and McDonalds. But until now it's been legal, or they would not be outlawing it.
The tape copy of the Simpsons is still copyright Fox and Groening, as it is a 'verbatim' copy made under the auspices of fair use 'time-shifting' the original broadcast.
The notes taken in a lecture by a student are copyright the student. Why? You're not time shifting and not copying verbatim, you're creating a unique work based on your impression of the class, the facts presented, and containing only the information you feel relevant. It's like reading a couple chapters from 'The Blind Watchmaker', and writing a short essay on evolution based on it.
Audio tapes of the lecture can't be said to be copyright the prof in most cases either, especially in a 'discussion' type affair. Video recordings might be exempted with the argument that the effort of videography is creating a substantivly different work.
If you really want to discourage companies selling notes from your lectures, leave a few copies of your personal 'gameplan' in the library, or provide them upon request.
If you're dealing with small virtual drive images (which I imagine you are, having stored them on CD) you can do exactly the same Save..Muck..Restore.. process using Linux on the native hardware and forgetting the virtual machine..
Create a 640 meg HD partition as/dev/hda1. Install Linux on hda2+. Install Windows9x on hda1, reboot Linux using a boot disk, and restore LILO. dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/diskimages/windows98SE.image bs=1M count=640. Wipe hda1 with random data or zero fill it before installing the next OS. To reinstall a image, simply boot Linux, dd if=/diskimages/windows98SE.image of=/dev/hda1 bs=1M count=640.
Presto! Native speed, native hardware, and you can use all of the great Unixy tools on the images to do snapshot diffs, binary diffs, etc..
Obviously you've been shopping for $12 Acqua digital watches at K-Mart.
Try something a little more upscale! I've never walked out of a real watch shop or jewelry store with an unset watch; They insist on setting it on the premisis beforehand! Even when I have one in for cleaning or adjustment, or a new band, they'll make me stand there while they adjust my intentional three minutes of advance away.
It's a liability thing; If they see the watch working, the customer can't come back in three nights later and claim the watch never worked, and he wants his $500 back, causing them to eat a Submariner with cheese.
if (!strcmp(currentfile.filetype, 'h') persp_height=persp_height + (maxheight/2);
if (!strcmp(currentfile.filetype, 'o') persp_height=persp_height/3;
if (!strcmp(currentfile.filename, 'core') persp_height=4;
They justified spending $240 million on a project to extend a 20 year old operating system just fine. What would be the problem with Mir? It does sound a lot like it's software counterpart..
FCC cannot weigh in on forcing an opening of AOL IM
The FCC can weigh in on anything they feel like.
Also, the force is being applied because they want permission to become a huge vertical monopoly/behemoth, not simply because they cornered the IM market..
Yes, but a lot of us recieved ours through the US mail, unsolicited. The Postal Code is pretty specific: They cannot dictate terms, nor charge money, nor expect it back. Many of those that snagged it from RS never got to read the license, because DC decided to put it in a Windows click-thru. If they do not provide me with a copy of the license, I am not bound to it. Their oversight, not mine.
Their attempt to enforce said license is, in many cases, criminal harassment, mail fraud, and is most certainly both a criminal and torte offense.
Announcing Microsoft KidsGuard2000, the premiere tool for protecting your children from harmful content on the Internet, from the software company all of America has grown to love! KG2000 is guaranteed to block 100% of objectionable material from the impressionible eyes of children, as well as cut down on those high ISP charges!
People would eat it up! Stick a floppy full of Java childrens games and HTML stubs in the box along with a pair of wirecutters to snip the phone line.
We have plenty of labor in the United States and we don't really need anymore
Go have a look at the unemployment statistics. Unemployment is so horribly low at the moment there isn't any labor. Christ, my HR department is having trouble filling two positions described in my request as "Button pusher. Alternatly push two buttons. Make coffee, warm his/her chair. Full-time. No technical skill, literacy or personal hygeine required. No knowledge of Word, Office, Lotus, Panagon or any other software req'd. I'd ask for a shaved chimp, but I don't think the chimp will make me coffee.", and they're offering $12.70/hour!!
Of course there is a higher percentage of 'smart' ones outside the country. How many people you know that can afford a three week trip to Paris on what they make as a peep-show booth cleaner or as the deep fry schmuck at McDonalds??
Actually, I'd rather we ban export of people without brains. The typical US tourist seems to make the rest of us look rather sorry, so perhaps this is one good way to prevent sour international relations..
Oh, come on! The health hazards of liquid mercury are not nearly as bad as you may have been led to believe! I would rather see children play with liquid mercury in science class once a week then spend time in classrooms sprayed with Dursban insecticide and disinfected with single-agent antimicrobials!
QNX == Cool hackware, sold by hackers to users, on their own money. Demand and features are market driven.
Mass transit == A bad hack, forced on unsuspecting users by politicians, with the users money. Demand and features both artificially inflated and deflated by same politicians who also ensure they are the only game in town.
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Geez, I guess I'm weird then..
My notes consisted of just what it was I was unlikely to understand, and 95% in my own words. (Not so slam on the profs and TA's, but a deep accent and broken english was the rule). If I was going to remember how 'X' worked, or was going to remember that 'foo' function was N^2+1, I simply didn't write it down or did a "Gave 20 min speech on doubly linked lists to clarify 'blazoom'"
Granted, I attended my classes, and when I couldn't the material that had been covered was usually made clear ahead of time.. (IE, "In sie next lechtuer vie vill cohvering Reverse-length Klaxon processing."
I saw plenty of students that directly copied, but as most of them were the challenge cases I took on tutoring, I would never in a million years write them off as 'typical', and it obviously did them no good. A buddy of mine did purchase notes up front from a former student (Cheap, like 'gimme a copy of your old notes and I'll buy you a sixer of that beer you like), for a couple classes. His feeling was that it sucked and didn't really give him any edge.
Don't get me wrong; I think that people selling notes is a shitty thing to do, and only breeds malfeasance. You get 'Little Mr/Miss Party' thinking they can just snag the notes for a couple hundred bucks total for the load and be done with those pesky morning classes, and bombing European History for a quick trip back to Mommy, Daddy, and McDonalds. But until now it's been legal, or they would not be outlawing it.
That analogy fails miserably. Here's why..
The tape copy of the Simpsons is still copyright Fox and Groening, as it is a 'verbatim' copy made under the auspices of fair use 'time-shifting' the original broadcast.
The notes taken in a lecture by a student are copyright the student. Why? You're not time shifting and not copying verbatim, you're creating a unique work based on your impression of the class, the facts presented, and containing only the information you feel relevant. It's like reading a couple chapters from 'The Blind Watchmaker', and writing a short essay on evolution based on it.
Audio tapes of the lecture can't be said to be copyright the prof in most cases either, especially in a 'discussion' type affair. Video recordings might be exempted with the argument that the effort of videography is creating a substantivly different work.
If you really want to discourage companies selling notes from your lectures, leave a few copies of your personal 'gameplan' in the library, or provide them upon request.
Installing it now.. Thank god for the T1, but curse the slow PII-300..
If you're dealing with small virtual drive images (which I imagine you are, having stored them on CD) you can do exactly the same Save..Muck..Restore.. process using Linux on the native hardware and forgetting the virtual machine..
/dev/hda1.
Create a 640 meg HD partition as
Install Linux on hda2+.
Install Windows9x on hda1, reboot Linux using a boot disk, and restore LILO.
dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/diskimages/windows98SE.image bs=1M count=640.
Wipe hda1 with random data or zero fill it before installing the next OS.
To reinstall a image, simply boot Linux, dd if=/diskimages/windows98SE.image of=/dev/hda1 bs=1M count=640.
Presto! Native speed, native hardware, and you can use all of the great Unixy tools on the images to do snapshot diffs, binary diffs, etc..
Obviously you've been shopping for $12 Acqua digital watches at K-Mart.
Try something a little more upscale! I've never walked out of a real watch shop or jewelry store with an unset watch; They insist on setting it on the premisis beforehand! Even when I have one in for cleaning or adjustment, or a new band, they'll make me stand there while they adjust my intentional three minutes of advance away.
It's a liability thing; If they see the watch working, the customer can't come back in three nights later and claim the watch never worked, and he wants his $500 back, causing them to eat a Submariner with cheese.
Actually I was thinking CEW, 'Chief Extortion Weasel'. Or perhaps we could let companies come up with their own appropriate internal designations!
Amazon could have a JBOCB, or 'Jeffy Boy's One Click Bitch'
RAMBUS could have a WSJ-YLIN, 'We stole it from Jedec- You have to license it from us now'.
Or for Xerox, 'NGNEODP', or 'Nice Guy, Not Enforcing Our Dumb Patents'
Go get a copy of fsv.
Find the line in the rendering system that says something like this:
persp_height = (currentfile.filesize/(maxfilesize/2048000)* max_height;
and add something like this after it:
if (!strcmp(currentfile.filetype, 'h') persp_height=persp_height + (maxheight/2);
if (!strcmp(currentfile.filetype, 'o') persp_height=persp_height/3;
if (!strcmp(currentfile.filename, 'core') persp_height=4;
No problem!
They justified spending $240 million on a project to extend a 20 year old operating system just fine. What would be the problem with Mir? It does sound a lot like it's software counterpart..
FCC cannot weigh in on forcing an opening of AOL IM
The FCC can weigh in on anything they feel like. Also, the force is being applied because they want permission to become a huge vertical monopoly/behemoth, not simply because they cornered the IM market..
Gee, I'm technos, so I must be the creator of that ultra-rad prototype car shown at all the autoshows back in 1998, right?
Mandrake != Mandrake Linux distribution.
Mandrake == Enlightenment, that ultra-pretty WM for Unix/X11.
Also, he wasn't exactly pitching copyright infringement
What would the most convenient device be for y'all?
1. Magstripe card/reader
Limited to a small key, really easy to clone. Easy to carry around.
2. SmartCard/reader
Slightly larger key, hard to clone. Still easy to carry around.
3. Hardware dongle
No key limit, hard to clone. Not so easy to carry.
4. Trusted Software.
No key limit, easy to exploit. No need to carry.
Of course, the least secure (and most insidious) will be the "Click" signature, which I sincerly hope is legislated into oblivion.
We're on a snapshot of Slashdot.. See above..
Yeah, I went through the same debaucle until I asked for my user info page.. No such user, no such blah..
My guess is they are fixing the hole, and have shifted Slashdot to another server for the moment..
I was just here, and there were 30 comments..
Where the hell'd they go??
Yes, but a lot of us recieved ours through the US mail, unsolicited. The Postal Code is pretty specific: They cannot dictate terms, nor charge money, nor expect it back. Many of those that snagged it from RS never got to read the license, because DC decided to put it in a Windows click-thru. If they do not provide me with a copy of the license, I am not bound to it. Their oversight, not mine.
Their attempt to enforce said license is, in many cases, criminal harassment, mail fraud, and is most certainly both a criminal and torte offense.
Announcing Microsoft KidsGuard2000, the premiere tool for protecting your children from harmful content on the Internet, from the software company all of America has grown to love! KG2000 is guaranteed to block 100% of objectionable material from the impressionible eyes of children, as well as cut down on those high ISP charges!
People would eat it up! Stick a floppy full of Java childrens games and HTML stubs in the box along with a pair of wirecutters to snip the phone line.
Perhaps the time has come to fork the older machines.. Few of us run Linux on anything less powerful than a Pentium, and even fewer on a 486.
I don't know, it depends on where the split of cost/benefit falls.. ZD doesn't say...
`Sides, having a Compaq/SGI/IBM 'approved' kernel patch doesn't hurt much..
I'd like to see it, if only for the laughs, but Microsoft wants $2.8 mil for a 32 CPU license on NT 4.0.
We have plenty of labor in the United States and we don't really need anymore
Go have a look at the unemployment statistics. Unemployment is so horribly low at the moment there isn't any labor. Christ, my HR department is having trouble filling two positions described in my request as "Button pusher. Alternatly push two buttons. Make coffee, warm his/her chair. Full-time. No technical skill, literacy or personal hygeine required. No knowledge of Word, Office, Lotus, Panagon or any other software req'd. I'd ask for a shaved chimp, but I don't think the chimp will make me coffee.", and they're offering $12.70/hour!!
Of course there is a higher percentage of 'smart' ones outside the country. How many people you know that can afford a three week trip to Paris on what they make as a peep-show booth cleaner or as the deep fry schmuck at McDonalds??
Still, Ma and Pa Piddioit are out there..
Actually, I'd rather we ban export of people without brains. The typical US tourist seems to make the rest of us look rather sorry, so perhaps this is one good way to prevent sour international relations..
Oh, come on! The health hazards of liquid mercury are not nearly as bad as you may have been led to believe! I would rather see children play with liquid mercury in science class once a week then spend time in classrooms sprayed with Dursban insecticide and disinfected with single-agent antimicrobials!
PGP/GPG don't have one. These military/governmental classifications apply to a specific configutation of an OS on a specific machine.
Why can't the transit system be this efficient?
QNX == Cool hackware, sold by hackers to users, on their own money. Demand and features are market driven.
Mass transit == A bad hack, forced on unsuspecting users by politicians, with the users money. Demand and features both artificially inflated and deflated by same politicians who also ensure they are the only game in town.
Please, send her over! I'll gladly give her triple what she recieved for her last album gratis, in the name of continuing art.
[technos begins scrawling in the checkbook.. Pay to the order of: Courtney Love, Date: September 25, 2000, Amount: $3,000 and no cents]