No, you don't have that right, since by publishing your book in the first place, you automatically open yourself up to "fair-use" issues. A review in a book magazine or the times, or a copy in some old bookstore on Cape Cod for $.15 makes it into the hands of your worst enemy.
I don't think thte previous author was advocating getting rid of copyright. I surely don't think that way. What I *DO* hate, for instance, is the inability for me to call up the authors of the ORIGINAL test-drive, and have them send me a copy of the software that I originally PAID for.
Or broderbund software, getting copies of all that old C-64 software I love, and could still use if the media still worked.
Or running all my ATARI games on my computer because my ATARI no longer works, but wait - I can still use the ROMs!!
60 years out of print, I can still read a book. 60 years out of print, you'll never be able to use Printshop on a C-64.
THAT is what the abandonware movement is all about. You can go ahead and cry (oh why?!?!) Doesn't matter.
Would you like it if you never got to be able to see an original copy of the constitution, simply because the last one printed was in 1788 and was locked up in some private vault?
>The good thing about C is that nothing goes on ?>behind your back. It's a portable, highlevel asm >that allows you to see *exactly* what >instructions the code will compile to. (compare >this to c++ and most other "advanced" languages >where a var[i]++ can involve millions of >instructions that are never seen.)
Don't confuse instructions with code-reuse. A var[i]++ could easily turn out to be only a few more instructions that a comparable C statement or it could the exact same, but instead be comprised of much more code which insulates the programmer from stupid errors.
One of the best things about C++, is that it let's me dictate the amount of overhead I want in my programs, as opposed to having extra overhead dictated upon me.
How many instructions is a var[i]++ in Java? Not java ops either, but real machine instructions?
C++ however, requires damn good compilers for performance.
Actually, I'm more for the favor of this. If you vote to pass an unconstitutional law, you get a strike. 3 strikes, and you do jail time. Nothing too heavy, just enough to make you reread the constitution a few times before signing your next bill.
Or maybe mandatory constitutional law courses?
I wonder what kind of nastiness congress will cook up to work around such a scheme?
I don't. If you don't take a few hours out of your MONTH to exercise your voice, you don't deserve to be represented. I know I can spare a couple hours for voting from my job. I work 40-80 hours a week, and I make my own schedule. I just have to be at work sometime when Europe and Japan are. That gives me plenty of time to do my job, and vote.
I hear the excuse time and time again about jobs not being flexible enough to allow people to get to the polls. I tell you something: I've never seen it in practice. At least not in the computer industry.
I'm old enough to have voted for one president, but didn't, mainly because I knew Clinton would win, but mostly because I was LAZY! Yes, you got it, those of us who work the hardest, who commute 60 miles every fricking day, are too lazy to drive 5 minutes down to the local high school, spend 10-30 minutes in line, and push a few buttons (Or fill in a few dots, I don't know, I've never voted).
I'm not making that mistake again. I definitely don't want another 8 years of the 'Bush Administration'. Yowza!
Last I checked, anyway, the polls are open until midnight for presidential/congression elections. Not quite the middle of my workday.
No matter how you hold votes, you're always going to have people who don't want to, or can't take the time to adequately review laws. I know I'm all for freedom of speech, but I'm a hypocrite, and can't keep up with all the pending laws out there, and still make enough money to feed me and my family. That's why I depend on the ACLU/EFF to reduce lots of legalese to quick and dirty summaries.
What this measure does is simply legitimise digital signatures for everything from medical records, to credit card applications.
What concerns me however, and I haven't researched this yet, is the mechanism involved. Is there an approved list of crypto schemes that is updated periodically by a public standards body, or is Verisign the only key authority allowed? The potential for abuse, and or all the bad things we expected from the Clinton/Gore key escrow schemes is high.
Rant over I guess. I'm happy to see this day, mind you. Just concerned now about the implementation.
IDE's are excellent tools. If you use standard compilers, linkers, and dependency tools underneath, like GCC, and gmake.
The best IDE is one which contains a decent editor with Windows Style keymaps, (or modifiable ones), the ability to replace the editor with one of my choice, and the ability to reconfigure every step of the build process.
And bases it's project configuration off of an input makefile (Oh, and does decent (non-extraneous text) makefile maintenance).
Exchange supports POP3 and IMAP, so I don't understand why Linux users can't access email.
The thing with MAPI is that it isn't a protocol per say, its MSRPC running over Netbios. You would need to decode the RPC calls. Not an insurmountable task, mind you, but not necessarily one that is necessary considering Exchange's web support and IMAP/POP3 support.
This is what NASA tried to do with Deep Space 1. Autonomous navigation to an *ASTEROID*. Performed pretty admirably, I'd say. Never mind the ion-propulsion, but I digress.
I'd say we can do it, and the Mars Observer is the first step in making it feasible. The problem with your argument is that our cruise missiles aren't intended to land in one piece. They hit something, and explode. You're talking about a significantly bigger problem in making a very delicate touchdown in nearly perfect conditions (perfect LOS to earth or satellite to relay data/comms).
Perhaps the real answer is a network of GPS/Telsat hybrids that listen for comms from ground satellites and provide basic geographic positioning. And certainly improved autonomous landing equipment.
You're going to need this for human exploration anyway. I'm not going to chance dying on some remote globe because my cheap/commodity Iridium phone won't work. Which is another good argument. Using commodity off-the-shelf equipment. What would it take to get a constellation of say 3 or 4 satellites usable with Iridium??
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No, you don't have that right, since by publishing your book in the first place, you automatically open yourself up to "fair-use" issues. A review in a book magazine or the times, or a copy in some old bookstore on Cape Cod for $.15 makes it into the hands of your worst enemy.
I don't think thte previous author was advocating getting rid of copyright. I surely don't think that way. What I *DO* hate, for instance, is the inability for me to call up the authors of the ORIGINAL test-drive, and have them send me a copy of the software that I originally PAID for.
Or broderbund software, getting copies of all that old C-64 software I love, and could still use if the media still worked.
Or running all my ATARI games on my computer because my ATARI no longer works, but wait - I can still use the ROMs!!
60 years out of print, I can still read a book. 60 years out of print, you'll never be able to use Printshop on a C-64.
THAT is what the abandonware movement is all about. You can go ahead and cry (oh why?!?!) Doesn't matter.
Would you like it if you never got to be able to see an original copy of the constitution, simply because the last one printed was in 1788 and was locked up in some private vault?
>The good thing about C is that nothing goes on ?>behind your back. It's a portable, highlevel asm >that allows you to see *exactly* what >instructions the code will compile to. (compare >this to c++ and most other "advanced" languages >where a var[i]++ can involve millions of >instructions that are never seen.)
Don't confuse instructions with code-reuse. A var[i]++ could easily turn out to be only a few more instructions that a comparable C statement or it could the exact same, but instead be comprised of much more code which insulates the programmer from stupid errors.
One of the best things about C++, is that it let's me dictate the amount of overhead I want in my programs, as opposed to having extra overhead dictated upon me.
How many instructions is a var[i]++ in Java? Not java ops either, but real machine instructions?
C++ however, requires damn good compilers for performance.
-cfk
Actually, I'm more for the favor of this. If you vote to pass an unconstitutional law, you get a strike. 3 strikes, and you do jail time. Nothing too heavy, just enough to make you reread the constitution a few times before signing your next bill.
Or maybe mandatory constitutional law courses?
I wonder what kind of nastiness congress will cook up to work around such a scheme?
I don't. If you don't take a few hours out of your MONTH to exercise your voice, you don't deserve to be represented. I know I can spare a couple hours for voting from my job. I work 40-80 hours a week, and I make my own schedule. I just have to be at work sometime when Europe and Japan are. That gives me plenty of time to do my job, and vote.
I hear the excuse time and time again about jobs not being flexible enough to allow people to get to the polls. I tell you something: I've never seen it in practice. At least not in the computer industry.
I'm old enough to have voted for one president, but didn't, mainly because I knew Clinton would win, but mostly because I was LAZY! Yes, you got it, those of us who work the hardest, who commute 60 miles every fricking day, are too lazy to drive 5 minutes down to the local high school, spend 10-30 minutes in line, and push a few buttons (Or fill in a few dots, I don't know, I've never voted).
I'm not making that mistake again. I definitely don't want another 8 years of the 'Bush Administration'. Yowza!
Last I checked, anyway, the polls are open until midnight for presidential/congression elections. Not quite the middle of my workday.
No matter how you hold votes, you're always going to have people who don't want to, or can't take the time to adequately review laws. I know I'm all for freedom of speech, but I'm a hypocrite, and can't keep up with all the pending laws out there, and still make enough money to feed me and my family. That's why I depend on the ACLU/EFF to reduce lots of legalese to quick and dirty summaries.
What this measure does is simply legitimise digital signatures for everything from medical records, to credit card applications.
What concerns me however, and I haven't researched this yet, is the mechanism involved. Is there an approved list of crypto schemes that is updated periodically by a public standards body, or is Verisign the only key authority allowed? The potential for abuse, and or all the bad things we expected from the Clinton/Gore key escrow schemes is high.
Rant over I guess. I'm happy to see this day, mind you. Just concerned now about the implementation.
Slashdot-on!
-Chris Kaminski
And that's why I support term limits. And don't vote for anyone who doesn't.
Let's end career politicians.
I disagree.
IDE's are excellent tools. If you use standard compilers, linkers, and dependency tools underneath, like GCC, and gmake.
The best IDE is one which contains a decent editor with Windows Style keymaps, (or modifiable ones), the ability to replace the editor with one of my choice, and the ability to reconfigure every step of the build process.
And bases it's project configuration off of an input makefile (Oh, and does decent (non-extraneous text) makefile maintenance).
IMHO
http://www.identicalsoftware.com/xwpe/
Not exactly an MSVS replacement, but not all that bad of a tool.
Exchange supports POP3 and IMAP, so I don't understand why Linux users can't access email.
The thing with MAPI is that it isn't a protocol per say, its MSRPC running over Netbios. You would need to decode the RPC calls. Not an insurmountable task, mind you, but not necessarily one that is necessary considering Exchange's web support and IMAP/POP3 support.
This is what NASA tried to do with Deep Space 1.
Autonomous navigation to an *ASTEROID*. Performed pretty admirably, I'd say. Never mind the ion-propulsion, but I digress.
I'd say we can do it, and the Mars Observer is the first step in making it feasible. The problem with your argument is that our cruise missiles aren't intended to land in one piece. They hit something, and explode. You're talking about a significantly bigger problem in making a very delicate touchdown in nearly perfect conditions (perfect LOS to earth or satellite to relay data/comms).
Perhaps the real answer is a network of GPS/Telsat hybrids that listen for comms from ground satellites and provide basic geographic positioning. And certainly improved autonomous landing equipment.
You're going to need this for human exploration anyway. I'm not going to chance dying on some remote globe because my cheap/commodity Iridium phone won't work. Which is another good argument. Using commodity off-the-shelf equipment. What would it take to get a constellation of say 3 or 4 satellites usable with Iridium??
Truly true news reports always have something no other news reports do: Reliable sources. This story came with a name, a town, and a company. Make a phonecall to Utah 411 for the police in St. George, and talk to this supposed officer. He should be able to provide evidence and procedure to document his claim. If there's no Officer blah in St. George Utah, you can assume it's a fraudulent article. My $.02. -Chris Kaminski