In Dallas, this is very true also. I have not even graduated High School, but last summer I was hired as a programmer by a local startup company. We have only one person working as a programmer who has a CS degree.
With the experience I now have as a High School senior, I would not ever consider going into Tech Support for any of the local companies. Programmers are in too high of a demand in Texas.
If they copyrighted the disk formatting (as I mentioned in my post here, no, that would not be legal. If they copyrighted the arrangement of programs on the CD, by reselling, say, a.iso, you would be violating that copyright.
One fallacy that I believe has swept through the linux community (probably with some commercial distributions intentions) is that some distros will support hardware X great, another will support hardware Z really not so well.
99.9% of the code base that each distribution pulls from is *exactly* the same (if you disregard which version is put into which distribution).
I suggest finding a distro you like (*cough*Debian*cough*) and look through some online documentation. The linux USB project http://www.linux-usb.org
has some information about what USB devices currently have support.
So, instead of relying only on what comes bundled with a commercial linux distribution, perhaps looking at the actual programs that the distribution is saving you from having to mess with and/or configure, you can get your specific hardware setup.
One good way of getting around this is to copyright the formatting on the CD-ROM, but not necessarily the *software* on it. I believe that one of the *BSD distro's did this (openBSD?). They would not offer the CD to be downloaded, and they copyrighted the orginization of the programs on the CD.
Very thin line, I agree, but one that I believe rightly exists.
I think it is nothing evil to want to be compensated for your efforts. I doubt this will generate an income worthy of mentioning for this company, but they can at least try. I'll just stick to my great, trustworty Debian Sid GNU/Linux.
I was hoping that in this version that they would have anti-aliasing setup...
Either I'm blind, I was mistaken, or I have the wrong libraries installed. On debian, it installed a bunch of packages like libgtk-1.2.9-ximian.4, so I think apt-get got the right stuff....
I assume they use some derivation of nano self construction. Im not exactly sure what all this entails, but it is used to create Carbon Nanotubes, and has been referenced in many other nano-scale refrences.
You forget that it costs money to keep things up in the air. With the growing orbiting-trash problem, no one wants something that is untracked zipping around a few miles above the Earth.
Once the funds for tracking the object has been expended, they are just left with a way to dispose of it.
A number of people have mentioned that IRC is ancient, outdated. (One guy compared it to his atari)
<rant>
I cannot understand how people can go about saying this. IRC (IMHO) is still the best place to get help on nearly _any_ subject.
</rant>
Anyway... That aside, what would be a 'better' alternative to IRC? (Obviously not AIM/ICQ, they're only useful for 1:1 communication, anything else gets bulky)
(Slightly off-topic, I know; I have no karma, so Im not afraid to destroy what little I have ; P)
Yeah... but it doesnt have much... Just a few quotes, a funny dilbert cartoon, and some amusing quotes from 1/2 centry ago.... (oh.. and the pps who are working on the projects)--- But nothing of any hard content as to progress/work/etc that I could find.
I thought that because DC has contracts with at least 2 large companies in the Dallas area (Dallas Morning News; WFAA(CH 8)), would make DC give up the fight. The reverse-engineering is making the devices more used (I only got one once the linux drivers was avaliable). Their main (only?) source for income is being able to sell the bar-code lookups for either TV or publications. AFAIK, you can still do these lookups even with the "stolen IP" drivers.
> The judge didn't buy eBay's argument that > Bidder's Edge was guilty of trademark > infringement. He instead focused on the claim > that Bidder's Edge's searches essentially > constituted a form of trespassing on eBay's > property.
I dont quite understand how searching a site (even if through a web crawler) could be trespassing... A site (I *thought*) was put up as public information (unless the author made arrangements to protect that information).
Slashdot Mirror
Does anyone have any .deb's, or do I actually have to make all the packages...? = )
ie: is there any way I can just toss a line into my sources.list?
In Dallas, this is very true also. I have not even graduated High School, but last summer I was hired as a programmer by a local startup company. We have only one person working as a programmer who has a CS degree.
With the experience I now have as a High School senior, I would not ever consider going into Tech Support for any of the local companies. Programmers are in too high of a demand in Texas.
If they copyrighted the disk formatting (as I mentioned in my post here, no, that would not be legal. If they copyrighted the arrangement of programs on the CD, by reselling, say, a .iso, you would be violating that copyright.
IANAL.
One fallacy that I believe has swept through the linux community (probably with some commercial distributions intentions) is that some distros will support hardware X great, another will support hardware Z really not so well.
99.9% of the code base that each distribution pulls from is *exactly* the same (if you disregard which version is put into which distribution).
I suggest finding a distro you like (*cough*Debian*cough*) and look through some online documentation. The linux USB project http://www.linux-usb.org has some information about what USB devices currently have support.
So, instead of relying only on what comes bundled with a commercial linux distribution, perhaps looking at the actual programs that the distribution is saving you from having to mess with and/or configure, you can get your specific hardware setup.Tyler Durden (sp?) would be ashamed of you.
Yes, that is true.
One good way of getting around this is to copyright the formatting on the CD-ROM, but not necessarily the *software* on it. I believe that one of the *BSD distro's did this (openBSD?). They would not offer the CD to be downloaded, and they copyrighted the orginization of the programs on the CD.
Very thin line, I agree, but one that I believe rightly exists.
I think it is nothing evil to want to be compensated for your efforts. I doubt this will generate an income worthy of mentioning for this company, but they can at least try. I'll just stick to my great, trustworty Debian Sid GNU/Linux.
I was hoping that in this version that they would have anti-aliasing setup...
Either I'm blind, I was mistaken, or I have the wrong libraries installed. On debian, it installed a bunch of packages like libgtk-1.2.9-ximian.4, so I think apt-get got the right stuff....
Anyone else know?
I assume they use some derivation of nano self construction. Im not exactly sure what all this entails, but it is used to create Carbon Nanotubes, and has been referenced in many other nano-scale refrences.
You forget that it costs money to keep things up in the air. With the growing orbiting-trash problem, no one wants something that is untracked zipping around a few miles above the Earth. Once the funds for tracking the object has been expended, they are just left with a way to dispose of it.
$50 says that if this comes to pass, the people who push it through will not have their lines/communication tapped.
Just a dumb american's thoughts on UK politics.
A number of people have mentioned that IRC is ancient, outdated. (One guy compared it to his atari)
<rant>
I cannot understand how people can go about saying this. IRC (IMHO) is still the best place to get help on nearly _any_ subject.
</rant>
Anyway... That aside, what would be a 'better' alternative to IRC? (Obviously not AIM/ICQ, they're only useful for 1:1 communication, anything else gets bulky)
(Slightly off-topic, I know; I have no karma, so Im not afraid to destroy what little I have ; P)
Yeah... but it doesnt have much... Just a few quotes, a funny dilbert cartoon, and some amusing quotes from 1/2 centry ago.... (oh.. and the pps who are working on the projects)--- But nothing of any hard content as to progress/work/etc that I could find.
A brief introduction to Quantum Cryptography Looks interesting... I wish I could find more info on the Los Alamos site about what they've done with crypto.
(Sorry about the double-post; Didnt think about what when I completed the subject line)
I thought that because DC has contracts with at least 2 large companies in the Dallas area (Dallas Morning News; WFAA(CH 8)), would make DC give up the fight. The reverse-engineering is making the devices more used (I only got one once the linux drivers was avaliable). Their main (only?) source for income is being able to sell the bar-code lookups for either TV or publications. AFAIK, you can still do these lookups even with the "stolen IP" drivers.
> The judge didn't buy eBay's argument that
> Bidder's Edge was guilty of trademark
> infringement. He instead focused on the claim
> that Bidder's Edge's searches essentially
> constituted a form of trespassing on eBay's
> property.
I dont quite understand how searching a site (even if through a web crawler) could be trespassing... A site (I *thought*) was put up as public information (unless the author made arrangements to protect that information).
Anyone care to enlighten me?