Let's guess that that star and ours were moving away from eachother at c for the.7 billion years since the star collapsed. That would mean that we would have a 1.4 billion light year advantage over the light itself. That would mean that our average velocity over the time since must have been.714*c!
That doesn't seem at all right, and on top of that it would seem silly to make the assumption I initially made anyhow. Perhaps there is just something that I don't understand about light and how it moves. Or these people are just wrong (I'm putting my money on the latter -- the news people, that is, because this article is probably completely incorrect!).
I would definitely agree with you on the above. I, as a CS major, am not interested in doing anything except programming (In the immediate term, that is -- I cannot speak to the future.). Most of my MIS friends go into it looking for a chance to jump into management at a company after a few years at the bottom rung of the ladder.
Second. That should be pretty obvious, since the first requires each string to be touched in its entirety but the second only touches up to the difference.
It's not really just because of the ingrained expectation of a CS degree that employers prefer it. There is also an element of the CS degree simply being harder and more rigorous than an MIS or CIS degree. The more capable job candidates will probably have preferred to challenge themselves in CS rather than just sailing through MIS.
The above is definitely not a politically correct position, but it is also definitely true, the same way the average C++ programmer is a better programmer than the average Java programmer and the way the average LISP programmer is better than both of the others. (Note: I do not program in LISP because I fear parens. =P )
The facts that back this up are that employment at will is so common that everyone does^Wshould (Did you see that clever hacker reference?) know about it. Although things may have changed since 2001, this article seems to show that New York is not one of those states in which "Wrongful dismissal" is a serious charge except in the case of an implied contract.
In any case, even if this were the case in New York, most companies make you sign stuff about your usage of email. Any misuse of email is normally an actionable offense "Up to and including termination" (That was the phrase on the last employee agreement I signed.). I've worked at several different places and they all had clauses like this, so I don't know if your company is just really nice or if you just don't have broad experience, but generally speaking, that's the way it is in the States.
It would be nice if there was an API that forced developers to deliver on promises, especially things like "HL2 WILL BE OUT NEXT WEEK GUYS," or, "OMG LOST COAST COMING SOON!" That would probably be far more useful than Steam.
I suppose that it is possible to genetically engineer pigs with wings too. Doesn't mean it's useful to call pigs flying "possible" in a serious conversation.
1) Blizzard is not a publisher but a studio. 2) They do not need to go out and ask people to see if the market will support it. The market will DEFINITELY not support it, and they've probably got enough economic data to tell that without your help. 3) The network designs can't be *that* infamous if I've never heard of them being poor. 4) It's not a law, it's a contract. Think of the implications of a situation where contracts are unenforceable and people only have to do what they want to do. *That's* even more of a find. 5) I don't understand how you can call them evil. Seriously, what have they done? They have not pandered to your naive fantasies about Linux having a viable desktop user presence (Hint: it doesn't.). They have not given their stuff away for free and have barred people from taking actions that would essentially do the same. They create "infamously exploitable" network designs, evidence for which you seemed to be wary of linking. They haven't stolen from anyone and give many good games to the community. They are honest and they engage in dialogue with the people who support them. Yeah, I can see what you mean about Evil Blizzard. (In case anyone missed the sarcasm, let me clarify: I can't think of one thing Blizzard has done that could earn them the label "Evil Corporation" from anyone. Except Westwood, who they stomped all over by making better games.)
the actual sale that has allready existed and given you wonership to a copy of the software. It would be more like if you order stuff and then when you recieve it, you have to sign.
All right, how many times do we have to go over "ownership" versus license to use. No matter how much you want the former, the latter is what actually exists and will continue to exist. If you don't agree to the EULA, you take back the software.
Sorry, a benefit must be something that you would otherwise not be entiteled or allowed to do. "Using the software" is not something that is otherwise forbidden.
What!? How is the average person's conception of how things should go important to the question of what is legal and what is not? You are not "otherwise entitled" to anything unless you consent to the EULA. That is up front and plain. There is no way to use the software without consenting to the EULA, so I don't see how it is possible to get around this restriction on reverse engineering.
Many countries have gone much forther. Note that the restrictions typically get much more sever if a contract is of the non negotiating, mass contract type.
But you do not establish anywhere that these restrictions are enough even to forbid EULAs of the type currently under discussion. Are they invalid in the EU? It certainly doesn't seem so. Also, the contract does not seem unreasonable at all: "You pay us for the service, and we will deliver it. You promise not to snoop on the exact mechanics of its deliverance and various other things that will make it possible for us to sustain a profitable situation."
And we have a winner, (b) is what applies, and it is called copyright. It forbids certain uses, one of which is copying for example. No need to have any EULA to forbid such things.
You do need a EULA to forbid reverse engineering for compatibility, which is the issue at hand. Copyright is not sufficient for that task. Of course the typical EULA will forbid things other than the things copyright forbids. That's what they are THERE for!
Crap, I don't know why I keep going through this. There seems to be an endless stream of people who will not listen to reason. Even if one is finally convinced, fifteen more with the wrong ideas about everything pop up in their place.
I can sympathize with your position, but if I'm having problems with an address space and it's easy enough for me to block it with a small enough negative business impact, you better believe I'm going to do it.
If you believe what you say you believe, then you believe something that is very contrary to the way the capitalist system works. The and operator in your sentence implies that the two halves can go together, which is in now way the case. You must be anti-capitalist if you believe what you say you believe, and if you are not anti-capitalist, you cannot believe it.
No, that is not the case. Quality of product and presence of alternatives, along with various other market forces, affect demand as well. However, you are right about one thing. Artificially increasing price will push demand down. Rather, it will not affect demand, but it will force the economy's position on the curve to the left, which means that a lower quantity of purchases will be made.
I have made some improvements to the parent, which, if I understand correctly, is the spirit of the GPL. I am rereleasing it now:
Actually, it may just reinforce the "Oh, it's more expensive so it must be better" meme that people have in their heads.
Naturally, the rereleased comment is also GPL'ed.
This kind of logic is what allowed Windows to dominate the desktop market for the last fifteen years. If you think that Apple will conduct itself any different than MS has, you have a lot of illusions that need correction about the way things work in the business world.
What in the heck? There is no basis for what you are saying. It's like looking at a study showing the sky is blue and then saying, "Oop, from this I deduce that the sky is red because."
Seriously, let's not kid ourselves. This is pure statistics -- men took the test under the same conditions as women, so no one is more likely to game the test. Whether it's important is another question, but the results are from pure IQ tests.
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Let's guess that that star and ours were moving away from eachother at c for the .7 billion years since the star collapsed. That would mean that we would have a 1.4 billion light year advantage over the light itself. That would mean that our average velocity over the time since must have been .714*c!
That doesn't seem at all right, and on top of that it would seem silly to make the assumption I initially made anyhow. Perhaps there is just something that I don't understand about light and how it moves. Or these people are just wrong (I'm putting my money on the latter -- the news people, that is, because this article is probably completely incorrect!).
If someone wants to run the OS badly enough, there is nothing sufficiently difficult to reverse engineer that it will stop them.
I would definitely agree with you on the above. I, as a CS major, am not interested in doing anything except programming (In the immediate term, that is -- I cannot speak to the future.). Most of my MIS friends go into it looking for a chance to jump into management at a company after a few years at the bottom rung of the ladder.
Second. That should be pretty obvious, since the first requires each string to be touched in its entirety but the second only touches up to the difference.
It's not really just because of the ingrained expectation of a CS degree that employers prefer it. There is also an element of the CS degree simply being harder and more rigorous than an MIS or CIS degree. The more capable job candidates will probably have preferred to challenge themselves in CS rather than just sailing through MIS.
The above is definitely not a politically correct position, but it is also definitely true, the same way the average C++ programmer is a better programmer than the average Java programmer and the way the average LISP programmer is better than both of the others. (Note: I do not program in LISP because I fear parens. =P )
Basically, you are saying exactly what he said. What is your problem? Did you actually read his post?
You should go on to the part where you get the joke then you can stop there. =)
The facts that back this up are that employment at will is so common that everyone does^Wshould (Did you see that clever hacker reference?) know about it. Although things may have changed since 2001, this article seems to show that New York is not one of those states in which "Wrongful dismissal" is a serious charge except in the case of an implied contract.
In any case, even if this were the case in New York, most companies make you sign stuff about your usage of email. Any misuse of email is normally an actionable offense "Up to and including termination" (That was the phrase on the last employee agreement I signed.). I've worked at several different places and they all had clauses like this, so I don't know if your company is just really nice or if you just don't have broad experience, but generally speaking, that's the way it is in the States.
Besides that we have few historical examples of Communism working and many of it not, there's no problem at all.
It would be nice if there was an API that forced developers to deliver on promises, especially things like "HL2 WILL BE OUT NEXT WEEK GUYS," or, "OMG LOST COAST COMING SOON!" That would probably be far more useful than Steam.
Although I must say I do like the Steam model.
I suppose that it is possible to genetically engineer pigs with wings too. Doesn't mean it's useful to call pigs flying "possible" in a serious conversation.
No. See the One Time Pad, which is mathematically impossible to break, even given infinite time and resources.
Then you should know that any encryption which can be broken like this is really not worth appreciating.
A couple things:
1) Blizzard is not a publisher but a studio.
2) They do not need to go out and ask people to see if the market will support it. The market will DEFINITELY not support it, and they've probably got enough economic data to tell that without your help.
3) The network designs can't be *that* infamous if I've never heard of them being poor.
4) It's not a law, it's a contract. Think of the implications of a situation where contracts are unenforceable and people only have to do what they want to do. *That's* even more of a find.
5) I don't understand how you can call them evil. Seriously, what have they done? They have not pandered to your naive fantasies about Linux having a viable desktop user presence (Hint: it doesn't.). They have not given their stuff away for free and have barred people from taking actions that would essentially do the same. They create "infamously exploitable" network designs, evidence for which you seemed to be wary of linking. They haven't stolen from anyone and give many good games to the community. They are honest and they engage in dialogue with the people who support them. Yeah, I can see what you mean about Evil Blizzard. (In case anyone missed the sarcasm, let me clarify: I can't think of one thing Blizzard has done that could earn them the label "Evil Corporation" from anyone. Except Westwood, who they stomped all over by making better games.)
Derivative works must also be GPL. That is one condition for use.
Crap, I don't know why I keep going through this. There seems to be an endless stream of people who will not listen to reason. Even if one is finally convinced, fifteen more with the wrong ideas about everything pop up in their place.
I can sympathize with your position, but if I'm having problems with an address space and it's easy enough for me to block it with a small enough negative business impact, you better believe I'm going to do it.
OTOH you seem reasonably good at ad hominem attacks.
If you believe what you say you believe, then you believe something that is very contrary to the way the capitalist system works. The and operator in your sentence implies that the two halves can go together, which is in now way the case. You must be anti-capitalist if you believe what you say you believe, and if you are not anti-capitalist, you cannot believe it.
No, that is not the case. Quality of product and presence of alternatives, along with various other market forces, affect demand as well. However, you are right about one thing. Artificially increasing price will push demand down. Rather, it will not affect demand, but it will force the economy's position on the curve to the left, which means that a lower quantity of purchases will be made.
I have made some improvements to the parent, which, if I understand correctly, is the spirit of the GPL. I am rereleasing it now: Actually, it may just reinforce the "Oh, it's more expensive so it must be better" meme that people have in their heads. Naturally, the rereleased comment is also GPL'ed.
This kind of logic is what allowed Windows to dominate the desktop market for the last fifteen years. If you think that Apple will conduct itself any different than MS has, you have a lot of illusions that need correction about the way things work in the business world.
Oh yeah well Iraq waited until 2XXX. I don't think that's overly optimistic, but I might be undershooting so let's just say XXXX.
It's actually statistics. There is a big difference.
What in the heck? There is no basis for what you are saying. It's like looking at a study showing the sky is blue and then saying, "Oop, from this I deduce that the sky is red because ."
Seriously, let's not kid ourselves. This is pure statistics -- men took the test under the same conditions as women, so no one is more likely to game the test. Whether it's important is another question, but the results are from pure IQ tests.