Private: for my own personal use.
Public: anyone else.
Just like with music. I can legally copy a CD onto a tape to use in my car. I cannot legally copy a cd onto a tape to give to a friend.
Just modifying the code does not require you to release modified source. Modifying the code and releasing modified binaries does. The only change with this new license is that it requires you to send the modified source to the original author too. I don't see the problem.
Don't like the license? Don't modify and rerelease modified binaries.
Do you mean:
"If you modify this code, you must submit changes back to the original author"
or:
"If you modify this code and release the modified code for public use, you must release the modified source to the public and submit changes directly to the original author"
Basically, does someone have to send you changes they made if they are not releasing the modified code in general? I am not clear from the wording you used.
I'll second that. One of the most useful purchases I've made, definitely worth the price. They also have several books in their "pocket reference" series; I don't think there is a general UNIX one but one of them might have a decent "cheat sheet."
Quick, before the page gets recached, contact Google about your situation. They might be able to provide you with a copy of the file from the cache and a statement saying "this is when this file was collected" etc. Perhaps it could be notarized?
Here is the Google contact page. If you look under Corporate it gives a real phone number. Good luck!
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Except that they did, and your answer is incorrect. For proof, try taking a very cold shower. Same effect occurs. It's a meteorologically-related phenomenon, not just "hot air rises".
Personally, I feel that work done in introductory classes should be done individually, with group projects in upper-level classes. There's a few reasons for this.
One, in intro classes, the purpose is to teach basic skills/concepts that everyone needs to know. If you work in a group, you miss out on some part of the project, and don't necessarily pick it up on your own. Working solo is the only way to guarantee that everyone learned what was needed.
Two, lower-level classes are often where students figure out that a major is not for them. I've been in the unenviable position of having a group member drop the class halfway through a major project: it's not a good situation. This is more likely to happen earlier in a degree program, as people switch majors.
Three, students at introductory level are often at very different skill levels. One freshman in CS might have been coding in C since age 14; another might never have coded before. Putting these two people in the same group at this point is unfair to both. Once the intro classes are finished everyone (supposedly) has the same base level of knowledge, so nobody is as significantly dragging the group down.
Lastly, upper-level class projects tend to be more complex and lend themselves better to dividing among multiple people than simpler intro-level projects. By that point the basic skills are down and you are learning to apply them to real problems; part of that is figuring out how to plan and subdivide problems into smaller, manageable pieces. You're problem-solving, not just learning how to code. Larger projects make more sense to divide up.
This is all just my opinion, of course, based on my experience. YMMV.
I agree, that is how domain disputes should be handled in the case of trademarks. It doesn't _really_ matter if a company's site is located at myco.com or mycoproducts.com. They just want consumers to be able to find their site easily. Why not have myco.com be a gateway to all companies with the name MyCo? Then you don't have folks hitting your site & wasting your bandwidth who are looking for some completely unrelated company, and your customers can find you right away. Sounds good all around.
I agree with you, they should be able to have _some_ redress for this. But legally, I don't think they can...that little "AS IS" clause in shrinkwrap licenses and all. Bah. We'll see.
Personally, I don't care about the copy protection issue. If the music companies find a way to prevent people from ripping mp3's and the like, good for them. What I care about is interoperability. For years, I didn't have a cd player other than my computer cdrom. I still primarily listen to CDs on my computer rather than on my lousy stereo. If this technology means that I can't do that anymore, I'm going to be royally pissed. Even more so if I also can't listen to CDs in the car. At that point CDs become pretty worthless to me.
This isn't about not being able to copy CDs, at least not for me. It's about not being able to use something in the completely legal manner that it's meant to be used.
Still occasionally play the old classics on the Commodore 64...PacMan, Donkey Kong, QBert, etc. Sometimes, the simple games are still the best. The clunky joystick reminds me of how far we've come with peripherals. We had Wheel of Fortune too on disk, but it was broken such that you could never get to the final round, it just hung. Always wondered if the programmers just hadn't finished it.
The oldest PC game I've got floating around is probably Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego (DOS), my parents still have it for my brother. Runs too fast even on a slow pentium tho so you can't see the animations (it used to be on an old IBM 286).
The NPR affilliate around here runs brief ads like once every 1/2 hour, and it's normally just "this program is brought to you by Blah Co, makers of FOO; XYZ Co, providers of BAR service, and our public radio listeners. You're listening to WOI Radio, Ames and Des Moines." This is of course different during pledge drives, but that's only once a year.
Once you're up to 6 breaks an hour, like you described, that's no longer public-radio-worthy, IMHO. Sorry your experience is based on such a case.
Actually, it makes sense. They don't have to prepare them in advance at their expense (it's your CDR), no shipping of CDs to coordinate, and they don't have to try to predict how many to have on hand. Figure maybe 4-6 people per hour (random guess) come in wanting one, so it doesn't take that much of the salesperson's time. Plus they can demonstrate the burning capabilities, show off new stuff they might talk you into buying, etc. etc. Smart move, I think.
Yeah, video stores suck. Around here they just want a driver's license/state ID number, which for most people is their SSN (tho you can have a random one assigned). It would make more sense for them to require you to give a credit card number. What they really want is some way to track you down if you owe them money/run off with 6 DVDs/etc. With a credit card, they know they're getting paid.
Not that giving out your CC# is much better than giving out your SSN, but it's a reasonable alternative.
How exactly is having a DNA sample supposed to help track down/prosecute/whatever hackers? DNA evidence is only useful when a physical crime has occurred. If Joe Cracker breaks into some server, there's no DNA left behind to compare to some national database of criminals to track him down, or help convict him. What's the purpose of it? How can they justify that?
If someone can fathom a usefulness for this, please enlighten me.
"Hey," said a friend and senior manager, "we just announced we're whacking 200 people. If we spend three million bucks installing XP we're going to have to whack another 40. Is the ability to use a joystick worth those peoples' jobs?"
Amen, brother. The days of upgrading for the sake of having the latest-and-greatest are over. Budgets are tight and managers have figured out that the improvements just aren't worth the cost. If the upgrade isn't demonstrated to significantly improve productivity, they aren't biting. MS may have a monopoly, but they have relied on the planned-obsolescence model too long. Unless they can give companies convincing reasons to upgrade, they should prepare for less-than-expected sales figures.
"...watch the Monday Night game this week and look at Brett Favre's face when he's playing and then tell me he's not enjoying himself."
Sure, while he's playing, he's having fun. But "playing football on national TV" isn't the entire job description of an NFL quarterback. There's practices all week, training, weightlifting, etc. etc. I bet if you went to a Thursday practice you wouldn't see that "I love this" look you're referring to.
Worms are not a new phenomenon. What new can we learn from Code Red et al that we shouldn't have learned already? The lesson, as always, to sysadmins is basically, keep your patches up to date; to developers, don't write buggy code. (Particularly code with silly errors like buffer overflows. C'mon, folks, bounds checking!)
Yes, I know it's not really that simple, but in many ways, it is.
As with any development, you try it first on the simple case to prove that it can be done. Once you have the kinks worked out, then you go for the more complicated stuff. Simple Engineering 101.
1. It's slow.
2. No real or perceived value-add from using it. Why should I switch to a 3D filesystem browser, for example, when what I have works just fine?
Make it faster and give us a good reason to use it, and it might get more widespread use.
I read once, that when giving a presentation with slides, black-text-on-white (or dark-on-light) is the best when you are projecting the image (eg. acetate overhead sheets), while white-text-on-black (or light-on-dark) is best for when it is displayed on a video screen. So it would follow to use light-text-on-dark-background color schemes on a terminal.
While I think they were more concerned with contrast, I believe it applies well to eyestrain; with a video screen, the light is being directed right at your eyes; more black = less light for your eyes to deal with. Reading a white-background screen for an extended period is sort of like driving in snow, skiing, or anything with a lot of glare; your eyes get overloaded by the amount of light they have to deal with, and get tired.
You might also try turning down the brightness of your monitor a tad, and see if muting the colors that way helps.
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I really doubt they will use a nuclear warhead (and hope they won't use one, btw). It's simply not necessary when they can cause such massive destruction with non-nuclear weapons. They will probably turn a large area into a parking lot, I have no doubt. But nuclear weapons just aren't necessary at this point.
Also, I think if they did, they would lose much of the global support they have recently received in fighting terrorism. His reaction is rather normal, I would think, for someone who expected to have a rather uneventful first year and is suddenly in charge of dealing with a major military situation. Everyone please pray to the deity or figure of your choice that he and all our leaders make the right decisions.
Consider yourself lucky. A lot of folks in rural areas around here (where "rural" is more than five miles out of town) can't get dialup faster than 28.8 because of the age/quality of the phone lines. I know several folks who when they go back home for the summer (from university), live where there is no cable, let alone cablemodem, because their towns (not small, either) are too far from any other metro area to make it worthwhile to run cabling. Yeah, I understand it's more profitable to run fiber in Chicago than in rural Iowa, so of course it's going there first. But people forget that there's a large chunk of the US that hasn't seen much benefit from all this "wonderful communications technology".
Of course, with the coastal mindset that the midwest is just this empty wasteland that's flown over to get to the other coast, it's not surprising.
No. The static-protection (grounding) is done better on usb ports than serial ports, because usb is meant to be hot-swapped and have things plugged in and out while the machine is running. Serial ports were not designed for such use, so the grounding isn't as good. The cradle is really just an extension of the port, so it is affected.
To me the issue is: is it the port/mobo manufacturers' fault for not providing proper grounding; or is it Palm's, for not recognizing that serial ports were not designed to be hot-plugged (which is what you do when you put the palm in the cradle); or is it the users', for not practicing simple static safety with electronic devices? My guess is a little bit of all of them. Of course, when people have the attitude like the guy I met who believed Palm should have to fix his handheld for free because the screen broke when he dropped it onto the sidewalk, I'm not surprised that users don't want to take any of the responsibility.
Oh! Good idea. My mom has a bunch of those. A tip: a lot of people don't know, they can flower. Put some "blooming fertilizer" on them and they send up stalks with little flowers on them. Try it sometime.
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It's quite simple.
Private: for my own personal use.
Public: anyone else.
Just like with music. I can legally copy a CD onto a tape to use in my car. I cannot legally copy a cd onto a tape to give to a friend.
Just modifying the code does not require you to release modified source. Modifying the code and releasing modified binaries does. The only change with this new license is that it requires you to send the modified source to the original author too. I don't see the problem.
Don't like the license? Don't modify and rerelease modified binaries.
Do you mean:
"If you modify this code, you must submit changes back to the original author"
or:
"If you modify this code and release the modified code for public use, you must release the modified source to the public and submit changes directly to the original author"
Basically, does someone have to send you changes they made if they are not releasing the modified code in general? I am not clear from the wording you used.
I'll second that. One of the most useful purchases I've made, definitely worth the price. They also have several books in their "pocket reference" series; I don't think there is a general UNIX one but one of them might have a decent "cheat sheet."
Quick, before the page gets recached, contact Google about your situation. They might be able to provide you with a copy of the file from the cache and a statement saying "this is when this file was collected" etc. Perhaps it could be notarized?
Here is the Google contact page. If you look under Corporate it gives a real phone number. Good luck!
Except that they did, and your answer is incorrect. For proof, try taking a very cold shower. Same effect occurs. It's a meteorologically-related phenomenon, not just "hot air rises".
Personally, I feel that work done in introductory classes should be done individually, with group projects in upper-level classes. There's a few reasons for this.
One, in intro classes, the purpose is to teach basic skills/concepts that everyone needs to know. If you work in a group, you miss out on some part of the project, and don't necessarily pick it up on your own. Working solo is the only way to guarantee that everyone learned what was needed.
Two, lower-level classes are often where students figure out that a major is not for them. I've been in the unenviable position of having a group member drop the class halfway through a major project: it's not a good situation. This is more likely to happen earlier in a degree program, as people switch majors.
Three, students at introductory level are often at very different skill levels. One freshman in CS might have been coding in C since age 14; another might never have coded before. Putting these two people in the same group at this point is unfair to both. Once the intro classes are finished everyone (supposedly) has the same base level of knowledge, so nobody is as significantly dragging the group down.
Lastly, upper-level class projects tend to be more complex and lend themselves better to dividing among multiple people than simpler intro-level projects. By that point the basic skills are down and you are learning to apply them to real problems; part of that is figuring out how to plan and subdivide problems into smaller, manageable pieces. You're problem-solving, not just learning how to code. Larger projects make more sense to divide up.
This is all just my opinion, of course, based on my experience. YMMV.
I agree, that is how domain disputes should be handled in the case of trademarks. It doesn't _really_ matter if a company's site is located at myco.com or mycoproducts.com. They just want consumers to be able to find their site easily. Why not have myco.com be a gateway to all companies with the name MyCo? Then you don't have folks hitting your site & wasting your bandwidth who are looking for some completely unrelated company, and your customers can find you right away. Sounds good all around.
I agree with you, they should be able to have _some_ redress for this. But legally, I don't think they can...that little "AS IS" clause in shrinkwrap licenses and all. Bah. We'll see.
Personally, I don't care about the copy protection issue. If the music companies find a way to prevent people from ripping mp3's and the like, good for them. What I care about is interoperability. For years, I didn't have a cd player other than my computer cdrom. I still primarily listen to CDs on my computer rather than on my lousy stereo. If this technology means that I can't do that anymore, I'm going to be royally pissed. Even more so if I also can't listen to CDs in the car. At that point CDs become pretty worthless to me.
This isn't about not being able to copy CDs, at least not for me. It's about not being able to use something in the completely legal manner that it's meant to be used.
Still occasionally play the old classics on the Commodore 64...PacMan, Donkey Kong, QBert, etc. Sometimes, the simple games are still the best. The clunky joystick reminds me of how far we've come with peripherals. We had Wheel of Fortune too on disk, but it was broken such that you could never get to the final round, it just hung. Always wondered if the programmers just hadn't finished it.
The oldest PC game I've got floating around is probably Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego (DOS), my parents still have it for my brother. Runs too fast even on a slow pentium tho so you can't see the animations (it used to be on an old IBM 286).
The NPR affilliate around here runs brief ads like once every 1/2 hour, and it's normally just "this program is brought to you by Blah Co, makers of FOO; XYZ Co, providers of BAR service, and our public radio listeners. You're listening to WOI Radio, Ames and Des Moines." This is of course different during pledge drives, but that's only once a year.
Once you're up to 6 breaks an hour, like you described, that's no longer public-radio-worthy, IMHO. Sorry your experience is based on such a case.
Actually, it makes sense. They don't have to prepare them in advance at their expense (it's your CDR), no shipping of CDs to coordinate, and they don't have to try to predict how many to have on hand. Figure maybe 4-6 people per hour (random guess) come in wanting one, so it doesn't take that much of the salesperson's time. Plus they can demonstrate the burning capabilities, show off new stuff they might talk you into buying, etc. etc. Smart move, I think.
Yeah, video stores suck. Around here they just want a driver's license/state ID number, which for most people is their SSN (tho you can have a random one assigned). It would make more sense for them to require you to give a credit card number. What they really want is some way to track you down if you owe them money/run off with 6 DVDs/etc. With a credit card, they know they're getting paid.
Not that giving out your CC# is much better than giving out your SSN, but it's a reasonable alternative.
How exactly is having a DNA sample supposed to help track down/prosecute/whatever hackers? DNA evidence is only useful when a physical crime has occurred. If Joe Cracker breaks into some server, there's no DNA left behind to compare to some national database of criminals to track him down, or help convict him. What's the purpose of it? How can they justify that?
If someone can fathom a usefulness for this, please enlighten me.
Amen, brother. The days of upgrading for the sake of having the latest-and-greatest are over. Budgets are tight and managers have figured out that the improvements just aren't worth the cost. If the upgrade isn't demonstrated to significantly improve productivity, they aren't biting. MS may have a monopoly, but they have relied on the planned-obsolescence model too long. Unless they can give companies convincing reasons to upgrade, they should prepare for less-than-expected sales figures.
"...watch the Monday Night game this week and look at Brett Favre's face when he's playing and then tell me he's not enjoying himself."
Sure, while he's playing, he's having fun. But "playing football on national TV" isn't the entire job description of an NFL quarterback. There's practices all week, training, weightlifting, etc. etc. I bet if you went to a Thursday practice you wouldn't see that "I love this" look you're referring to.
Worms are not a new phenomenon. What new can we learn from Code Red et al that we shouldn't have learned already? The lesson, as always, to sysadmins is basically, keep your patches up to date; to developers, don't write buggy code. (Particularly code with silly errors like buffer overflows. C'mon, folks, bounds checking!)
Yes, I know it's not really that simple, but in many ways, it is.
As with any development, you try it first on the simple case to prove that it can be done. Once you have the kinks worked out, then you go for the more complicated stuff. Simple Engineering 101.
Why aren't VRML plugins used more?
1. It's slow.
2. No real or perceived value-add from using it. Why should I switch to a 3D filesystem browser, for example, when what I have works just fine?
Make it faster and give us a good reason to use it, and it might get more widespread use.
I read once, that when giving a presentation with slides, black-text-on-white (or dark-on-light) is the best when you are projecting the image (eg. acetate overhead sheets), while white-text-on-black (or light-on-dark) is best for when it is displayed on a video screen. So it would follow to use light-text-on-dark-background color schemes on a terminal.
While I think they were more concerned with contrast, I believe it applies well to eyestrain; with a video screen, the light is being directed right at your eyes; more black = less light for your eyes to deal with. Reading a white-background screen for an extended period is sort of like driving in snow, skiing, or anything with a lot of glare; your eyes get overloaded by the amount of light they have to deal with, and get tired.
You might also try turning down the brightness of your monitor a tad, and see if muting the colors that way helps.
I really doubt they will use a nuclear warhead (and hope they won't use one, btw). It's simply not necessary when they can cause such massive destruction with non-nuclear weapons. They will probably turn a large area into a parking lot, I have no doubt. But nuclear weapons just aren't necessary at this point.
Also, I think if they did, they would lose much of the global support they have recently received in fighting terrorism. His reaction is rather normal, I would think, for someone who expected to have a rather uneventful first year and is suddenly in charge of dealing with a major military situation. Everyone please pray to the deity or figure of your choice that he and all our leaders make the right decisions.
Of course, with the coastal mindset that the midwest is just this empty wasteland that's flown over to get to the other coast, it's not surprising.
To me the issue is: is it the port/mobo manufacturers' fault for not providing proper grounding; or is it Palm's, for not recognizing that serial ports were not designed to be hot-plugged (which is what you do when you put the palm in the cradle); or is it the users', for not practicing simple static safety with electronic devices? My guess is a little bit of all of them. Of course, when people have the attitude like the guy I met who believed Palm should have to fix his handheld for free because the screen broke when he dropped it onto the sidewalk, I'm not surprised that users don't want to take any of the responsibility.
Only in the age of the dot-bomb startup, would "over 1000 employees" be considered a big company.