Some universities already have copyright clearance agreements in place, due to concerns of copyright material being duplicated in libraries, these agreements may allow the university or library to generate income as a means of cost recovery of any expenses from administering the program, and an incentive for enforcement.

Since approximately 1% (or less than $1000 total, divided amongst all the Top of the Pops artists for the past 6 years) of the proceeds would likely end being paid to the artists, songwriters, and/or performers; really what difference does it actually make?

Unfortunately I'm not certain how many of the IT / technology website are worth subscribing to. Too many of them are already hollow shills, with writers and "editors" who either lack technical or literary skills if not both. Scarcity of journalism, professionalism, or ethics makes me wonder whether they would just continue to produce more "sponsored content" which is merely advertising being sugar-coated as content, whether new product info, amazingly uncritical glowing reviews, verbatim printing of marketing material. Such that I would be paying to read/ view advertisements. Pretty much why people stopped paying for cable as soon as they could, why pay to get content filled with marketing? Let alone the growth in product placement / endorsement in prime time television.

For websites where the user community or user base is the actual value, then how much money should an active user who already contributes their time and knowledge and/or creativity, be expected to pay on top of their donated time and effort?

And I'm not a cheapskate, I have repeatedly subscribed to print magazine subscriptions for magazines that were 100% reader paid (i.e. no advertisements). A small number succeed, and others devolve or get absorbed into what they were trying to avoid. (e.g. Christopher Schwarz's Woodworking Magazine, Citizen Science Quarterly, etc.) One thing that is certain, is that they do have some of the least bias product reviews.

You mean like this:
  Tom's Hardware: Sapphire's Vapor-X R9 290X 8GB - Temperature, Noise And Power.

Actually I continuously get frustrated by "enthusiast" computer sites reviews who seems to being entirely lacking in technical knowledge when it comes to anything beyond quoting the manufacturers press material. Half of them might as well have a companion site reviewing shoes and fashion tends given their display of technical ignorance.

For small gauge magnet wire, it often is used on better, but it is not perfect.

Better components tend to cost more, which for commodity priced* products like video cards, saving a few cents can be considered worthwhile.

*) A lower bill of materials cost, can be used to past on some or all of the savings to the consumer, where for price sensitive consumers, the company with the cheapest product can end up selling potentially 30-400% more if you have the cheapest of a seemingly similar product (video card with chip Y9000), thereby increasing net profits even with lower profit margins per unit.

I agree with the idea to study mathematics, as a useful exercise, that would in many cases benefit programmers by giving them a good mental workout, and hopefully reinforce if not expand their understanding of mathematics, logic, and reasoning.

Beyond that I would argue for the study of writing, in a natural (human-oriented) language of your choice.

Programming as a profession, and as an art, is about the meaningful expression of ideas; in a detailed, unambiguous manner that can be processed by a computer. Programming languages are tiny, simplistic, and restrictive in their ability to express ideas, and the execution of these ideas. Writing in a natural language is much more complex, particularly when you strive to remove undesired ambiguity*. The other issue is that as a professional, programming is not done in isolation. Even if you are an independent contractors, you must be able to communicate effectively with clients and users.

*) Ambiguity can be desirable in humor and poetry.

I think that any programmer can benefit from the abilities to make logically sound, comprehensible arguments in a written document; that these abilities will make them better in their ability to understand, and be understood by users, customers, or colleagues.

The argument has been made in the past by Steven C. McConnell in Code Complete, in The Pragmatic Programmer by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas, Coding Horror by Jeff Atwood, and Joel Spolsky (of Joel on Software) in his Introduction to Best Software Writing I and College Advice. And like tons of other software developers, and their managers; repeatedly.

You see, communication is the only really important aspect of software development that people really have trouble with. The rest are details and small bugs, but for really big screw-ups you need miscommunication (or greed)

Actually the most precise signals (Precision (P) code) are still restricted, even though the selective availability (which was basically introducing jitter) was turned off for the Coarse/Acquisition (C/A) code.

That just means it's gone gold, as far as Internet memes are concerned. If an Internet "meme" can remain in usage past the natural lifespan or the relevance of its subject, some people mistakenly think that makes it funny.

grumble, grumble Al Gore invented the Internet @(&*@) The Internet is ... a series of tubes *&^^$%^)*#@ 640k[i]B is enough memory for anyone #$@#$@*& BSD is dying !$%#@#)

And no source for his (Cliff Mass's) claim of performance. As far as I know the US National Weather Service (NWS) in fact operates multiple clusters, I don't think they have any classic singular "supercomputers," but then again neither does anyone else anymore, since the original Cray supercomputer heydays.

The various models are run on several clusters AFAIK. I believe North American Mesoscale, NAMS and Global Forecast System, GFS may run on the primary operational cluster, but I was under the impression that other models like Rapid Refresh, High Resolution Rapid Refresh (RAP/HRRR) were run on a different cluster. I believe climate models are run on separate ("non-operational forecast") clusters as they don't have the same timeliness constraints. I'm unsure about oceanographic (wave, sea surface temperature) models. See their Environmental Modeling Center

I used FrontPage to create it, and host it on MySpace.

This submission was made by snydeq who may or may not be Paul Venezia, but certainly appears to have a clear vested interest in frequently promoting Paul Venezia's column and other articles from Info World on a nearly weekly basis.

Considering the overwhelmingly poor quality of the vast majority of Info World's trade rag (slang trade magazine), where most of the better "articles" (i.e. aka "filler," the stuff between the ads) tend to be cribbed from vendor's white papers, don't seem to merit being frequently promoted at Slashdot unless there is a financial arrangement in place, in which case the ethics of journalism would indicate that such a financial arrangement should be disclosed to readers.

Not that I'm suggesting Slashdot considers itself involved in journalism, regardless of the usage of the terms such as: articles, submissions, and editors in the Slashdot vernacular. I will mention that the US FTC publishes March 2013 disclosure guidelines for sponsorship, marketing, and promotions.

Well in fact he did get his old job or position back at Wayne State, Michigan, but at the reduced level of pay, and without the other benefits of tenure. This was most likely simply the administration trying to control their expenses, as they had most likely planned on replacing him with a non-tenured professor.

Good intent, but often hard to keep in practice while also managing obligations such as the notice period for resignation (14-90 days), and planning (i.e. relocation) - most employers won't continue to pay you while you move away from your place of employment. In terms of selling a house, moving out of state / province, these things are fairly significant events that take time and away from your current job.

I don't know the legally binding nature of a job offer, I suspect it varies by state/ province and by the actual offer, but they do not offer the same protection as a contract of employment, a document that I have normally not been able to sign until the first day of work.

There I fixed it for you.

Or to paraphrase whimsically: "C: it's been ignoring Unicode since before you were born."

In fact C (C89/90 to C11) is character-set neutral, and continues to maintain support for EBCDIC for those still stranded without 7-bit ASCII (which is technically superseded by ISO/IEC 646) by providing trigraph (5.2.1.1) and digraph (6.4.6.3) support.

See Section 1 Scope: 2. "This International Standard does not specify / the mechanism by which C programs are transformed for use by a data-processing system" and the definition of 3.6 Byte which is an "addressable unit of data storage large enough to hold any member of the basic character set of the execution environment". So yes Cray, you can even have 12-bit bytes (CDC Cyber).

Kids these days.

TSX is not for virtualization, but for transactional synchronization, it provides efficient transaction locking for multi-threaded applications. Not necessarily virtualization, although it can benefit from efficient locking as well

No, as far as I know, these have TSX disabled, or will be with a microcode update, as TSX isn't expected to be fixed until 2015 in Broadwell or Haswell-EX Xeons (not Haswell-EP which these are).