Your IP will be licensed under a license chosen by the open source project you will be working on. E.g., if you work on a GPL project, your code would be under the GPL.
Publisher has got to be one of the worst designed programs I ever used.
A couple years ago I was given an assignment to make a flyer. I would have used LaTeX, but the Powers That Were insisted that I use Publisher. Very well, I say, I'll give it a go.
I wrote up the text, stuck in a couple of pictures, and then I noticed--hey, the text at the bottom of that column looks smaller than the text at the top!
Turns out that Publisher would automatically decrease the text size to make it fit, but rather than decreasing the size of all the text, it would do it gradually. So the text at the top was 12pt, but about half way down it was about 11.7, and near the bottom it was about 11.3. Needless to say, it looked absolutely horrid.
I printed a preview and pointed the issue out to the Big Boss, but he didn't think it was important enough to let me do it in LaTeX. I gave up and covertly traded work with somebody else who was willing to wrestle with Publisher to fix it.
Ever since then, though, I refuse to do anything with Publisher.
I was "the nerd" all through school, despite being the biggest guy in my class (and usually my grade and the one above it). Now, I'm about 6'3" and 210 lbs.
People never did mess with me much physically, for obvious reasons. But other than that, I fit the stereotype pretty well.
That's about all I have to add, as a fellow American.
Checks and balances, I hope, will yet be our saviours. The judicial system still seems to be keeping a decent check on Congress, and then of course we have the likes of Tom Delay making sure they keep a check on our judges...:-|
I sat down with a teacher of mine once to work out stuff to do with course requirements and grades (I'm very lazy, and I needed to pass the course... anyway...)
She wanted to know what 80% of 16 assignments was, rounded up. So she opens her purse, pulls out her cellphone, flips the cover up, and starts pushing buttons to get to the calculator app. In the meantime, I told her the answer was 13.
Because, of course, 12 is 80% of 15, and if you add one to the numerator and demonitor of a fraction smaller than one, then the resulting fraction is closer to one. So (12+1)/(15+1) > 80%.
It took me about half a second to figure that out. People who get used to using calculators all the time are, in fact, handicapped in everyday life. Because the calculator in your brain, with a little training, is a heck of a lot faster than fishing your cellphone out of your purse.
I'm an American living in Sweden, so I'll just take this opportunity to take a cheap dig.
In the brilliance of Swedish design, the conference center will cost about 50 million SEK--about $7 million more than (or, three times as much as) a comparable "normal" building, and have maintainance costs of about 200-350 thousand SEK ($30-50 thousand) per year, as opposed to 57 thousand SEK ($8 thousand) for the normal building.
What more can I say?;-)
Don't mind me. Sweden's a fine place, even if you often do seem a bit strange to an outsider. I never did like herring, either.
People definitely need to be more aware of what exactly copyright is. For example, as you say, copyright has no bearing on the redistribution of confidential information.
As an example, everything produced by the American government is in the public domain: intelligence reports, plans for war, records of top secret negotiations.
This has no bearing on the distribution of those materials which are sensitive/confidential/secret.
Actually, you are wrong. The iPod isn't a promotional thing for the iTMS; rather, it's the opposite. Apple makes almost now money off the music they sell in the iTMS, as most of it goes to the record labels. They just use it to drive iPod sales.
The current legislation puts a maximum of 5% of their profits, which is roughly the given $5Mil figure. They would have to change this legislation to increase the fine, and we all know how easily that would happen...
1) iTunes does not use 192kbps WMA. That's a minor nitpick, however.
2) allofmp3.com isn't really legal. Give the RIAA time, and they will figure out how to shut it down, even with Russia's uncooperative laws. Remember, last time they escaped merely on a legal technicality. They can't do that for ever...
This would hurt Apple, as they make most of their money off of the iPods.
On the other hand, I don't see immediately how allowing other DRM formats to play on iPods would hurt them, as iTMS doesn't really make them any money. I expect that it's a matter of them trying to protect costumers from MS's DRM, which is even worse than Fairplay, and/or MS not allowing them to.
If I'm missing anything obvious, well, please tell me...
Yeah, you'll get modded up for being an American-culture-basher (or whatever the slashbots call such people these days), but before you go off on a screaming rampage, please keep in mind that a) it is not specific to the US, and b) sometimes it's a good thing.
For example, here in Sweden, the city of Stockholm owns not only most of the land within the city borders--which brings it a huge amount income from leases to the people who build on it--but it also owns large amounts of land in neighboring communities. In an attempt to satisfy the need for more high-density housing without ruining the look of their own city, they started to put up huge ugly apartment buildings in the surrounding communities for people to live in and commute into town.
In response, many of the neighboring communities zoned all the land owned by the city of Stockholm which was under their jurisdiction as nature preserves, preventing them from continuing their plot.
Property rights are great and all, but sometimes things that you do on your property effect other people's property (and other people) directly, and in that case they should have a say in it.
Monday morning Congress will pass the Lorem Ipsum Homeland Patriotism Act
Dude, you seriously need to work on coming up with names for legislation. Lorem Ipsum Homeland Patriotism Act doesn't even have a cool acronym (LIHP Act? Huh?), and that's just plain un-American. We've learned from the PATRIOT Act and INDUCE Act that it's much better to go with something like "Lorem Ipsum Federal Emergency Act (LIFE Act)"--protecting the lives of Americans everywhere!
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Your IP will be licensed under a license chosen by the open source project you will be working on. E.g., if you work on a GPL project, your code would be under the GPL.
Next piece of FUD, please?
Publisher has got to be one of the worst designed programs I ever used.
A couple years ago I was given an assignment to make a flyer. I would have used LaTeX, but the Powers That Were insisted that I use Publisher. Very well, I say, I'll give it a go.
I wrote up the text, stuck in a couple of pictures, and then I noticed--hey, the text at the bottom of that column looks smaller than the text at the top!
Turns out that Publisher would automatically decrease the text size to make it fit, but rather than decreasing the size of all the text, it would do it gradually. So the text at the top was 12pt, but about half way down it was about 11.7, and near the bottom it was about 11.3. Needless to say, it looked absolutely horrid.
I printed a preview and pointed the issue out to the Big Boss, but he didn't think it was important enough to let me do it in LaTeX. I gave up and covertly traded work with somebody else who was willing to wrestle with Publisher to fix it.
Ever since then, though, I refuse to do anything with Publisher.
Not everybody voted for it. Russ Feingold voted against it in the Senate, and there were a full 66 Representatives who voted against it in the House.
That said, I too find it extremely hard to support people who did vote for it.
No, we need whatever campaign finance contributions the BSA has.
Ever since people stopped eating dinner together at the dinner table.
Nerds don't have to be little.
I was "the nerd" all through school, despite being the biggest guy in my class (and usually my grade and the one above it). Now, I'm about 6'3" and 210 lbs.
People never did mess with me much physically, for obvious reasons. But other than that, I fit the stereotype pretty well.
Thank you.
:-|
That's about all I have to add, as a fellow American.
Checks and balances, I hope, will yet be our saviours. The judicial system still seems to be keeping a decent check on Congress, and then of course we have the likes of Tom Delay making sure they keep a check on our judges...
I'm in full agreement.
I sat down with a teacher of mine once to work out stuff to do with course requirements and grades (I'm very lazy, and I needed to pass the course... anyway...)
She wanted to know what 80% of 16 assignments was, rounded up. So she opens her purse, pulls out her cellphone, flips the cover up, and starts pushing buttons to get to the calculator app. In the meantime, I told her the answer was 13.
Because, of course, 12 is 80% of 15, and if you add one to the numerator and demonitor of a fraction smaller than one, then the resulting fraction is closer to one. So (12+1)/(15+1) > 80%.
It took me about half a second to figure that out. People who get used to using calculators all the time are, in fact, handicapped in everyday life. Because the calculator in your brain, with a little training, is a heck of a lot faster than fishing your cellphone out of your purse.
The actual text says that you cannot be forced to be a witness against yourself in a a criminal case, so you're probably right.
Man, non-Americans are smart.
[That comment is in jestful irony... don't take it as an insult, either to Americans or non-Americans. Thanks.]
I'm an American living in Sweden, so I'll just take this opportunity to take a cheap dig.
;-)
In the brilliance of Swedish design, the conference center will cost about 50 million SEK--about $7 million more than (or, three times as much as) a comparable "normal" building, and have maintainance costs of about 200-350 thousand SEK ($30-50 thousand) per year, as opposed to 57 thousand SEK ($8 thousand) for the normal building.
What more can I say?
Don't mind me. Sweden's a fine place, even if you often do seem a bit strange to an outsider. I never did like herring, either.
People definitely need to be more aware of what exactly copyright is. For example, as you say, copyright has no bearing on the redistribution of confidential information.
As an example, everything produced by the American government is in the public domain: intelligence reports, plans for war, records of top secret negotiations.
This has no bearing on the distribution of those materials which are sensitive/confidential/secret.
We can copy music off our iPods in the same way, thanks. On Windows, it works exactly the same way as your iRiver.
I pity you with your habit of speaking about things you are ignorant of.
Actually, you are wrong. The iPod isn't a promotional thing for the iTMS; rather, it's the opposite. Apple makes almost now money off the music they sell in the iTMS, as most of it goes to the record labels. They just use it to drive iPod sales.
Afterwards, the service costs $.99 cents, plus standard airtime charges, each time they use it.
Uh, it looks to me like the price is the same.
Does ATT not take it out of the nose, then, but some other bodily cavity?
The current legislation puts a maximum of 5% of their profits, which is roughly the given $5Mil figure. They would have to change this legislation to increase the fine, and we all know how easily that would happen...
One URL:
http://www.micronet.com/General/minimate.asp
Two points:
1) iTunes does not use 192kbps WMA. That's a minor nitpick, however.
2) allofmp3.com isn't really legal. Give the RIAA time, and they will figure out how to shut it down, even with Russia's uncooperative laws. Remember, last time they escaped merely on a legal technicality. They can't do that for ever...
And don't say that the RIAA won't allow it, because emusic.com has been selling non-DRM plain vanilla MP3s for some time now.
Non-RIAA music, that is.
RIAA will not allow them to sell their music as non-DRM plain vanilla MP3s for some time yet, I promise you.
This would hurt Apple, as they make most of their money off of the iPods.
On the other hand, I don't see immediately how allowing other DRM formats to play on iPods would hurt them, as iTMS doesn't really make them any money. I expect that it's a matter of them trying to protect costumers from MS's DRM, which is even worse than Fairplay, and/or MS not allowing them to.
If I'm missing anything obvious, well, please tell me...
MikTeX + Editor of your choice (I use TeXnicCenter) makes TeX on windows trivial.
And since when does Apple support TeX?
We just got an iTMS here in Sweden, though. Denmark and Switzerland as well I think... and maybe Norway...
So they are expanding. Wait a while, and maybe they'll move Down Under.
Yeah, you'll get modded up for being an American-culture-basher (or whatever the slashbots call such people these days), but before you go off on a screaming rampage, please keep in mind that a) it is not specific to the US, and b) sometimes it's a good thing.
For example, here in Sweden, the city of Stockholm owns not only most of the land within the city borders--which brings it a huge amount income from leases to the people who build on it--but it also owns large amounts of land in neighboring communities. In an attempt to satisfy the need for more high-density housing without ruining the look of their own city, they started to put up huge ugly apartment buildings in the surrounding communities for people to live in and commute into town.
In response, many of the neighboring communities zoned all the land owned by the city of Stockholm which was under their jurisdiction as nature preserves, preventing them from continuing their plot.
Property rights are great and all, but sometimes things that you do on your property effect other people's property (and other people) directly, and in that case they should have a say in it.
Thieves and Pirates.
Yarr, Matey! Join the club!
Monday morning Congress will pass the Lorem Ipsum Homeland Patriotism Act
Dude, you seriously need to work on coming up with names for legislation. Lorem Ipsum Homeland Patriotism Act doesn't even have a cool acronym (LIHP Act? Huh?), and that's just plain un-American. We've learned from the PATRIOT Act and INDUCE Act that it's much better to go with something like "Lorem Ipsum Federal Emergency Act (LIFE Act)"--protecting the lives of Americans everywhere!
What, get locked up for 19 years?
Five years for what you did, the rest because you tried to run...