the word "trademark" DID appear, albeit in the last paragraph of the article. definitely vague and misleading, not sure if it was deliberate.
I tend to think the use of the phrase "intellectual property" should be banned anyway. Just say copyright, trademark, or patent. They aren't all the same thing, and pooling them under the "IP" umbrella does not serve to further anyone's understanding.
But what would constitute appropriate exposure at the undergraduate level?
Option 1: Hey kids, guess what? There are these really, really big computers called mainframes. They run stuff, and a lot of them are old. You can see a picture of one in the library.
Option 2: Hey kids, guess what? There are these really, really big computers called mainframes. We've got one in the lab that was donated to us, but we can't afford to run it, because it costs too much. Go look at the mass of wires/cards/blades/whatever in awe.
Option 3: ???
Heh... I've been trying to train my family on this for years now. My mother called me the other day with some questions about Windows XP, and I honestly couldn't answer them, because I don't own or run anything with XP Home on it, and have never used it myself. Slowly, they are learning.
I usually try to give them analogies they can understand... e.g.: you wouldn't hire an architect to design your new home, and then ask him why the plumbing is clogged.
Getting a computer science degree isn't about understanding every technology that's been built out there. It's about understanding the principles, theories and practices that apply broadly across the field.
Every other employer I've known with what might be called "specialized" or "exotic" hardware or equipment (and yes, mainframes deserve to be in that category very soon if they aren't already) provided training on that equipment. A sharp student with a good understanding of fundamentals will be able to learn the specifics quickly enough.
we need them to ensure that we have broadband "competition", and to make sure that I can always choose between my local telco oligargy and my local cable hegemony when it comes to broadband service.
Regardless of how I feel about the issue raised in TFA, it is exactly the attitude expressed in the parent post that drives the persistent, pervasive feeling of exclusion among minorities in this country. If I may interpret what I just heard (and people will do this, whether you like it or not), you basically said you don't give a shit what minorities have to say about what they desire. It is this callous lack of concern or compassion for anyone beyond the self that drives the lack of remedy for what really are deep and real race relation issues in this country.
and in the interest of full disclosure, I am a black software engineer.
One thing I have noticed that also makes a huge difference is the quality of your D2A converter chipset. Consumer grade soundcards sound terrible. I actually have a shamefully expensive pro audio card from Echo Labs (that has an external rack-mount interface in addition to the PCI card) that I used to use for home music production, but just listening to any digitally recorded music on that device (and with appropriate quality speakers) makes a HUGE difference in the music enjoyment experience.
I suspect that amongst the non-technical sheeple, some may have figured out enough to know that Flash = annoying advertising, but probably very few know enough about how their computer operates to figure out that it's slowing the CPU down, or even how to monitor CPU usage, or distinguish CPU slowdown from disk cache slowdown from net lags from normal operation of the computer. And of those few, if they're using IE, they probably have no idea how to disable it.
Sad to say, Flash as a technology is pretty cool, but the way it gets used in practice is pretty depressing, most of the time. I've worked on some cool Flash apps in my day, but those days are pretty much behind me.
Sure, if you're only doing a handful of domains, you'd do it this way. But if you're doing dozens, hundreds, thousands (?) of domains, you spend the time and effort it takes to automate the process.
Then all you have to do is think of keywords to feed in, and the rest is taken care of you. I'd be willing to bet there are unscrupulous registrars willing to "assist" this process, so long as they don't look complicit.
I don't print too much at home now, but I print lots at work. At home, the main thing I print is maps with directions to places I am about to drive, because I'm too cheap to buy a GPS. I think that might account for 80% of my home printing.
Suppose for the sake of argument that the GPL is declared invalid. What's to say a judge wouldn't decide that since a piece of software had been released with an invalid license, that it's not equivalent to releasing it with no license at all, and thereby declaring the content to be in the public domain?
Not that I think this is what will happen, but I have to admit it is a possibility.
A lot of people have address inertia. If you've invested a lot of time, effort and energy spreading around your email address (think of coordinators for reading groups, clubs, etc), then it's a lot of work to move to a new address and make sure everyone follows you. Personally, I think this is a big reason why a lot of people still have AOL, despite its obvious uselessness. I know that's why my sister has it.
...for anything important. Even my non-geek friends and family migrated to Gmail, Yahoo and other free providers based on the level of service they were getting.
As for me, I stopped using my Hotmail account when Microsoft acquired them, and they went through that debacle when porting it to NT from Solaris.
So to extend your argument to its natural conclusion, people who don't commit crimes don't have to worry about being accused of crimes. Would but this were true. Even in America, wrongful and incorrect convictions occur daily. One of the core philosophies behind the criminal law in the US Constitution is that it is better to let 1000 guilty men go free than to jail one innocent man.
And if you don't believe in that, well... move to Russia or something.
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the word "trademark" DID appear, albeit in the last paragraph of the article. definitely vague and misleading, not sure if it was deliberate.
I tend to think the use of the phrase "intellectual property" should be banned anyway. Just say copyright, trademark, or patent. They aren't all the same thing, and pooling them under the "IP" umbrella does not serve to further anyone's understanding.
I thought the name of the company was Initech...
But what would constitute appropriate exposure at the undergraduate level? Option 1: Hey kids, guess what? There are these really, really big computers called mainframes. They run stuff, and a lot of them are old. You can see a picture of one in the library. Option 2: Hey kids, guess what? There are these really, really big computers called mainframes. We've got one in the lab that was donated to us, but we can't afford to run it, because it costs too much. Go look at the mass of wires/cards/blades/whatever in awe. Option 3: ???
Heh... I've been trying to train my family on this for years now. My mother called me the other day with some questions about Windows XP, and I honestly couldn't answer them, because I don't own or run anything with XP Home on it, and have never used it myself. Slowly, they are learning.
I usually try to give them analogies they can understand... e.g.: you wouldn't hire an architect to design your new home, and then ask him why the plumbing is clogged.
Getting a computer science degree isn't about understanding every technology that's been built out there. It's about understanding the principles, theories and practices that apply broadly across the field.
Every other employer I've known with what might be called "specialized" or "exotic" hardware or equipment (and yes, mainframes deserve to be in that category very soon if they aren't already) provided training on that equipment. A sharp student with a good understanding of fundamentals will be able to learn the specifics quickly enough.
we need them to ensure that we have broadband "competition", and to make sure that I can always choose between my local telco oligargy and my local cable hegemony when it comes to broadband service.
Regardless of how I feel about the issue raised in TFA, it is exactly the attitude expressed in the parent post that drives the persistent, pervasive feeling of exclusion among minorities in this country. If I may interpret what I just heard (and people will do this, whether you like it or not), you basically said you don't give a shit what minorities have to say about what they desire. It is this callous lack of concern or compassion for anyone beyond the self that drives the lack of remedy for what really are deep and real race relation issues in this country.
and in the interest of full disclosure, I am a black software engineer.
One thing I have noticed that also makes a huge difference is the quality of your D2A converter chipset. Consumer grade soundcards sound terrible. I actually have a shamefully expensive pro audio card from Echo Labs (that has an external rack-mount interface in addition to the PCI card) that I used to use for home music production, but just listening to any digitally recorded music on that device (and with appropriate quality speakers) makes a HUGE difference in the music enjoyment experience.
undoubtedly you were being sarcastic, but patents on crop genes are a big big big deal in 3rd world hunger issues...
http://www.ukabc.org/iu_april_release.htm
... is that if you put this in a Google query, it is smart enough to correct it to "attorney".
I suspect that amongst the non-technical sheeple, some may have figured out enough to know that Flash = annoying advertising, but probably very few know enough about how their computer operates to figure out that it's slowing the CPU down, or even how to monitor CPU usage, or distinguish CPU slowdown from disk cache slowdown from net lags from normal operation of the computer. And of those few, if they're using IE, they probably have no idea how to disable it.
Sad to say, Flash as a technology is pretty cool, but the way it gets used in practice is pretty depressing, most of the time. I've worked on some cool Flash apps in my day, but those days are pretty much behind me.
You're not thinking like an engineer.
Sure, if you're only doing a handful of domains, you'd do it this way. But if you're doing dozens, hundreds, thousands (?) of domains, you spend the time and effort it takes to automate the process.
Then all you have to do is think of keywords to feed in, and the rest is taken care of you. I'd be willing to bet there are unscrupulous registrars willing to "assist" this process, so long as they don't look complicit.
have the moderators been replaced by a drinking bird that just clicks "Post"???
This is why believing in any cause strongly is dangerous
So at the risk of sounding like flamebait, can I take this to mean that you don't have any principles in which you strongly believe?
if you're going to rant, at least get the details right.
Google's innovation was in using linking pages to rank the search results, not in providing a page that was ad-free.
Crashing a server and a train!
are you comparing color laser to color inkjet? or just regular B&W/grayscale laser?
I don't print too much at home now, but I print lots at work. At home, the main thing I print is maps with directions to places I am about to drive, because I'm too cheap to buy a GPS. I think that might account for 80% of my home printing.
Suppose for the sake of argument that the GPL is declared invalid. What's to say a judge wouldn't decide that since a piece of software had been released with an invalid license, that it's not equivalent to releasing it with no license at all, and thereby declaring the content to be in the public domain?
Not that I think this is what will happen, but I have to admit it is a possibility.
I can't imagine why people still use Hotmail.
A lot of people have address inertia. If you've invested a lot of time, effort and energy spreading around your email address (think of coordinators for reading groups, clubs, etc), then it's a lot of work to move to a new address and make sure everyone follows you. Personally, I think this is a big reason why a lot of people still have AOL, despite its obvious uselessness. I know that's why my sister has it.
...for anything important. Even my non-geek friends and family migrated to Gmail, Yahoo and other free providers based on the level of service they were getting.
As for me, I stopped using my Hotmail account when Microsoft acquired them, and they went through that debacle when porting it to NT from Solaris.
So to extend your argument to its natural conclusion, people who don't commit crimes don't have to worry about being accused of crimes. Would but this were true. Even in America, wrongful and incorrect convictions occur daily. One of the core philosophies behind the criminal law in the US Constitution is that it is better to let 1000 guilty men go free than to jail one innocent man.
And if you don't believe in that, well... move to Russia or something.
You never owned the music recordings before, anyway. All you owned was the plastic it was pressed/magnetized on.
I wonder if Slashdot does caching of frequently posted stories.
It's times like this that I really hate the fact I live in DC.....