I thought Peter Wayner's questions were vastly for insightful than the answers. Dr. Lessig was just trying to beat the one theme of his book and wasn't even listening (reading) what was said. Mr. Wayner was trying to show a relationship between rEdicuous copyright and other legal trends, but his subject didn't want to talk about anything except the DMCA as it applies to the cases he's been involved with.
How many of you wont touch a DVD because you can't rewind it -- or fast forward?
Or you hate digital artifacts showing up at random times in your picture. I don't *want* the screen to turn into a bunch of big ugly squares in the middle of a scene, and go to rewind it and have to try and guess by the stills how far back I overshot, and then sit through 10 minutes to get back to where I was, only to have it kalidescope out on the next scene.
Microsoft also makes its money from MSN and Windows Media Player -- they're getting paid alot to develop secure & proprietary music and video formats -- and killing off mp3 is one of the recording companies' biggest wishes
gcc doesn't natively support gnome, or kde, or even bash either. if you don't include the right libraries, it won't compile. WIN32 DLLs are not ansi compliant, and they aren't open source, so unless microsoft builds against GCC, you can't access the windows APIs-- for c++ name mangling if no other reason.
So, did you protest, then? <br><br>
No, we complained. It's much more effective, and doesn't take as much of your time. I wouldn't take the class again today, either, but then it was much more excusable for the instructor to be uninformed. Besides, working with the windows APIs helped me appreciated GTK+.
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We knew what Microsoft was doing even then, and we may have opened the instructor's eyes a bit, although his kneejerk reaction was that we were just paranoid. Just to show how backwater my school was, I took a UNIX class at the same time, and the instructor talked the necessity of learning vi and sh because one day, someone might get stuck working on a legacy system.
At the time, I was doing my homework on the server for a local ISP (my dad owned it.) Just log in at the console as root. I was glad I didn't have to copy the stupid practice logs (and poems!) from the text book. I just used awk, etc. on the syslogs.
That's what I was talking about. But if the RBOCs here in USA are ISPs they should really take the S, and often the P, out of the name. (and the I, for Qwest at least, thanks to their MSN deal)
there are only about a hundred case studies where all that ultra complex exchange functionality has been recreated in a webapp with php or something in like a day.
No, it isn't built into the email client, but WTF is intuitive about launching the email program to schedule a meeting, or look up someone's phone number. A simple calendar program, connected to finger and an MTA and viola!
In my OOP class we started out writing an interface to Excel, moved on to animated MS Agents, Windows RPC, and GDI screensavers for fun. Which pretty much limits you to MSVC. Some projects wouldn't compile on the 5.0 I had bought the year before.
While I appreciated the instructor trying to make it more "interesting", he was a couple years behind in what was cool. Several of us had started experimenting with Linux (1998) and once you've seen the flexibility of gcc, it's tough to go back.
Not to mention how painful it is to unlearn the incompatibilities Microsoft teaches you.
While it may be a closer approximation of what it will look like on print, its just an illusion. Anti-aliasing *is* blurring. While unantialiased(?!) fonts may be uglier, they are easier on the eyes.
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no one would pay $20 to see U2 these days.
Maybe "looking after" isn't what we need.
If only I had a richer massah he wouldn't have to to beat me so hard to make me work harder.
I thought Peter Wayner's questions were vastly for insightful than the answers. Dr. Lessig was just trying to beat the one theme of his book and wasn't even listening (reading) what was said. Mr. Wayner was trying to show a relationship between rEdicuous copyright and other legal trends, but his subject didn't want to talk about anything except the DMCA as it applies to the cases he's been involved with.
yeah, but this *was* friggin funny
How many of you wont touch a DVD because you can't rewind it -- or fast forward?
Or you hate digital artifacts showing up at random times in your picture. I don't *want* the screen to turn into a bunch of big ugly squares in the middle of a scene, and go to rewind it and have to try and guess by the stills how far back I overshot, and then sit through 10 minutes to get back to where I was, only to have it kalidescope out on the next scene.
Didn't they already overdo the "Will the real Natalie Portman please stand up?" bit.
and all the time spent showing Fraggle Rock
They could have put in alot of details with the time they spent having Vigo stare at the statue.
As usual:
from GUNS OF NAVARRONE:
INT. NAZI OFFICE (Is. of Crete)
FORD: "Yes, Sir"
I thought it was
"Who framed Jar-Jar Binks?"
The only reason the were able to give the advance review is so that they could give a positive one.
They wouldn't have seen the script if their opinion hadn't been determined before seeing it.
is that the "prop" program that I see on every sitcom?
Microsoft also makes its money from MSN and Windows Media Player -- they're getting paid alot to develop secure & proprietary music and video formats -- and killing off mp3 is one of the recording companies' biggest wishes
"...you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." -L. Flynt
So who decides--the sheep? Then the five wolves go hungry cause they can't eat grass.
gcc doesn't natively support gnome, or kde, or even bash either. if you don't include the right libraries, it won't compile. WIN32 DLLs are not ansi compliant, and they aren't open source, so unless microsoft builds against GCC, you can't access the windows APIs-- for c++ name mangling if no other reason.
So, did you protest, then?
<br><br>
No, we complained. It's much more effective, and doesn't take as much of your time. I wouldn't take the class again today, either, but then it was much more excusable for the instructor to be uninformed. Besides, working with the windows APIs helped me appreciated GTK+.
<br><br>
We knew what Microsoft was doing even then, and we may have opened the instructor's eyes a bit, although his kneejerk reaction was that we were just paranoid. Just to show how backwater my school was, I took a UNIX class at the same time, and the instructor talked the necessity of learning vi and sh because one day, someone might get stuck working on a legacy system.
At the time, I was doing my homework on the server for a local ISP (my dad owned it.) Just log in at the console as root. I was glad I didn't have to copy the stupid practice logs (and poems!) from the text book. I just used awk, etc. on the syslogs.
That's what I was talking about. But if the RBOCs here in USA are ISPs they should really take the S, and often the P, out of the name. (and the I, for Qwest at least, thanks to their MSN deal)
there are only about a hundred case studies where all that ultra complex exchange functionality has been recreated in a webapp with php or something in like a day.
No, it isn't built into the email client, but WTF is intuitive about launching the email program to schedule a meeting, or look up someone's phone number. A simple calendar program, connected to finger and an MTA and viola!
In my OOP class we started out writing an interface to Excel, moved on to animated MS Agents, Windows RPC, and GDI screensavers for fun. Which pretty much limits you to MSVC. Some projects wouldn't compile on the 5.0 I had bought the year before.
While I appreciated the instructor trying to make it more "interesting", he was a couple years behind in what was cool. Several of us had started experimenting with Linux (1998) and once you've seen the flexibility of gcc, it's tough to go back.
Not to mention how painful it is to unlearn the incompatibilities Microsoft teaches you.
(picture a pretty gui)
Tools->Options->Build
Compiler: [] Borland C++ []gcc |path|
Linker: [] Borland [] ld |path|
Flags:
The gcc we all use is much slower than the gnu-pro gcc you can buy from Cygnus/Redhat too.
While it may be a closer approximation of what it will look like on print, its just an illusion. Anti-aliasing *is* blurring. While unantialiased(?!) fonts may be uglier, they are easier on the eyes.
there is no legitimate use for a nuclear bomb
If you call the major phone (DSL) and cable companies "ISPs"
tell that to Netscape.