I bet that this worked for them. At least for a few days.
I know a lot of ppl who would stop trading songs online and be a bit scared after that. Specially if they live in the us where personal liberties are not in an all time high, and the riaa/mpaa hold a lot of sway.
I guess that after a few days of reading online how the courts ruled agaist them and yadda yadda trading would resume.
I use kazaa for trading of tv shows because as i am not in the us i can't enjoy the pleasures of PVRs and building my own for a few shows is not worth it. I used audiogalaxy for music as i could find there the stuff i like, but not kazaa so i don't have a normal paramater with which to check against. But i bet that similar searches on popular music a few days ago and tomorrow will show significant difference in found sources
Disclamer: I am not trying to defend China's regime by this.
The big difference is that China is consistent in its image and its actions, you expect them to be repressive and they are, no surprise there, its not a democracy nor any kind of representative gov so your rights mean squat.
OTOH the US has been traditionally portrayed as the world's bastion for freedom, civil liberties and rights, etc... and lo and behold they are starting to pass laws to "circumvent" due process and send ppl to jail without trial, DMCA to prevent tinkering with just about anything, extending copyrights ad eternum.
There used to be a time where opening up an Xbox or a cell phone, or a computer was not only encouraged in the us but subsidized, the US had (still has?) the largest gov tech research grants in the world. ALL those techs grew up breaking things apart looking inside them and putting them back together, and this is now illegal. Its like LEGO selling kits where its illegal to build anything else but what its portrayed on the box (stupid).
Not only is the DMCA a bad thing but in the long run will hamper US tech developement. its these guys breaking up xboxes today that build the X2020 boxes in 20 years.
1200 USD is steep but not ungodly. Think of it in terms of pc. This would be equivalent to a high end pc with an ATI 9700 all-in-wonder and a dvd recorder.
That is, around 600 for the puter + 350 for the ati + 350 for the dvd-r runs to $1300
And this probaly is easier to use, faster and easier to program and has like 6 different inputs and outputs (including showing pictures from memory sticks)
You are completely missing the point, i never wanted to be CEO or president of a company. If i had i would have taken a BuissAdmin and MBA. In college I never wanted to become CTO either, its just the way the cards were dealt, and choices were made. Fortunately i could still code as a CTO, otherwise i don't know if i would've taken the job.
I believe that programmers and tech ppl can only be managed properly by someone with the same background, NOT by someone 100% management, even if such a thing as CS Management course existes. If you weren't down in the trenches, you are not qualified to lead them.
Surely you mean COCOMO II, as it has superseded COCOMO. And yes, i know about the rest too, except for SCM, wtf is SCM?, as i am not american (nor a native english speaker) i am not familiar with the acronym.
If you really think that those or any other "concrete" things are what defines a software engineer you are sadly mistaken. Think about how the tech, and its implementation, changes from year to year and then think about what makes a SE.
IMHO a SE is someone not tied to any "book" or group of books, but someone who has learnt enough and has enough practice on the field to be above that and tackle ANY tech project or problem with confidence.
And not only that, as my job had required on several occasions, understand and manage Ledgers, and Due Dilligences, and Budegeting, Personnel evaluations, bonuses assingments, etc all fall onto your lap at some point in your climbing the managerial scale (if that is the path you choose to take) all of which were easy to handle thanks to the studying of stuff other than IT/CS you (at least I) make on SE, which i am positive would have been next to impossible had i been only a code-monkey.
Sadly you are right, as i left college almost 7 years ago programming and design courses have changed A LOT, which is not true for other more traditional engineering disciplines. As up to a year ago i worked in a highly tech environment i kept up with most of what was going on, but lately as i moved away i only view new ideas in project management, project and data desing and such, with mere curiosity and have stopped "studying" them.
But one thing i was shocked with was that, at that time, don't know how it is now, i was lacking in major skills like project collaboration (CVS, SourceSafe, etc..) which are important in almost any large company. I mean we obviously did work on projects collectively both sw and hw, but were left to our won devices on the coordination of that. At that time very little empasis was placed on online programming (asp, php, python, java) and mostly we learnt c++ (& VC++), smalltalk (!!), a realtime one whose name i can't recall, etc.
Perhaps a Software Engineer title should come with an expiration date (heh, á la MSCE)
Actually i don't. i started doing that but starting moving up, and away from coding, into more managerial jobs. up to CTO of an internet company (submarino.com) which as a miracle still survives today, but not in my country, so i left for other things.
The "irrelevant" courses from an IT perspective really broadens your scope and makes you better at higher management spots, the downside is that you move away from coding, but are still able to talk to the code-monkeys in their same language
On what you studied, here i took a 5 college year course including physics 1 & 2, thermodynamics, calculs, adv calculus and all the regular programming/db/hw subjects finishing with a work-experience paper presented 6 months after finishing classes to graduate.
Depression is associated with a kind of fear. Not panicky fear, bur fear nonetheless.
Its usuallly associated with a total apathy (as opposed to the popular belief that its symptom is sadness) tied with a fear of not-belonging and pointlessness in every action.
I don't know how those fears are "feedbacked" into the depression spiral but maybe they could help in preventing the "escalation" of depression.
Parking is easier if you know how to handle a manual trans. Its only ppl who are not used to it who find it harder cos all the clutch-work involved. High speed driving (100+) is also easier, you have more control over the car.
Automatic is easier on high traffic and stop-go jams.
Windows is easier to admin in large qty than linux with tools designed for that like hyena and sms. The same things that make win more insecure are its remote admin/audit capabilities.
Only ppl in you contact list will be able to actually reach you, all the rest will end in a catch-all folder automatically deleted periodically.
Some online services already offer this due to the overwhelming ammount of spam you get. I have a Hotmail acct i use to sign up to stuff online since '95. It gets around 10~15 spam daily which is caught by the spam filter and around 4~5 that get thru "misterioulsy":) that is a single acct that gets up to 20 spams/day !!
EVERYTING that isn't explicitly forbidden is permitted.
My post, btw was not about this at all. It was about why its so hard for MS to publicly admit Linux as competition.
And also BTW, MS did not take any action at all, it just circulated an interal memo with proposed actions, so as far as i can see it can circulate almost anything in a memo and it be legal (with the possible exception that they plan to kill the president, which is a federal crime, even if its a joke)
How big an electronic trai do you think you leave on the "terrorist" countries ?
Not many shops take amex/mc/visa in Irak / Afghanistan. Not many places have computers for registering customers, airplane tickets are still made by hand.
Just how do they plan to identify these so called "Terrorists" of commercial databases ?
How can you possibly identify terrorists by searching thru say, Amazon purchases or ubid or ebay ?
If you bought a 101 explosives book, and purchased some potassium chlorate from ebay you are surely on their list, but c'mon... what do they think terrorists do ? use the internet for their purchases ? that Al Quaeda has an online site where they secretly login by clinking on the left nipple of a certain pic in a porn site ? (and if they did, do they think they'll be able to access that db with this computer ?)
C'mon... stop invading the whole world's privacy just on the slim chance that you may catch an amateur discomformist doing stupid things, Cos this is surely NOT the way to catch real ones
If these guys had made this compatible with scsi, like emulating a scsi card and 1 device, so it could boot it would rock.
From power off to up and runnig in seconds !
This would be ideal to store an OS, even for a server, and have the HDs configured to copy the os back to the card and reboot in case it fails to boot from the card for some reason...
Hook the power source to a ups and you can probably keep the info for more than a week without external power should you need. (i mean, how much juice can this need?)
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I bet that this worked for them. At least for a few days.
I know a lot of ppl who would stop trading songs online and be a bit scared after that. Specially if they live in the us where personal liberties are not in an all time high, and the riaa/mpaa hold a lot of sway.
I guess that after a few days of reading online how the courts ruled agaist them and yadda yadda trading would resume.
I use kazaa for trading of tv shows because as i am not in the us i can't enjoy the pleasures of PVRs and building my own for a few shows is not worth it. I used audiogalaxy for music as i could find there the stuff i like, but not kazaa so i don't have a normal paramater with which to check against. But i bet that similar searches on popular music a few days ago and tomorrow will show significant difference in found sources
They claim the swapping of copywritten songs is illegal, using kazaa for chatting would be a perfectly legal way in RIAA's eyes.
Now corecion, and harrasing people after a judge said that what was going on wasn't illegal ? that is another matter
Disclamer: I am not trying to defend China's regime by this.
... and lo and behold they are starting to pass laws to "circumvent" due process and send ppl to jail without trial, DMCA to prevent tinkering with just about anything, extending copyrights ad eternum.
The big difference is that China is consistent in its image and its actions, you expect them to be repressive and they are, no surprise there, its not a democracy nor any kind of representative gov so your rights mean squat.
OTOH the US has been traditionally portrayed as the world's bastion for freedom, civil liberties and rights, etc
There used to be a time where opening up an Xbox or a cell phone, or a computer was not only encouraged in the us but subsidized, the US had (still has?) the largest gov tech research grants in the world. ALL those techs grew up breaking things apart looking inside them and putting them back together, and this is now illegal. Its like LEGO selling kits where its illegal to build anything else but what its portrayed on the box (stupid).
Not only is the DMCA a bad thing but in the long run will hamper US tech developement. its these guys breaking up xboxes today that build the X2020 boxes in 20 years.
1200 USD is steep but not ungodly. Think of it in terms of pc. This would be equivalent to a high end pc with an ATI 9700 all-in-wonder and a dvd recorder.
That is, around 600 for the puter + 350 for the ati + 350 for the dvd-r runs to $1300
And this probaly is easier to use, faster and easier to program and has like 6 different inputs and outputs (including showing pictures from memory sticks)
I was reading the txt, thinking this is the stupidest thing ever, before i realized it was April Fool's.
ARggghhhhhh
You are completely missing the point, i never wanted to be CEO or president of a company. If i had i would have taken a BuissAdmin and MBA. In college I never wanted to become CTO either, its just the way the cards were dealt, and choices were made. Fortunately i could still code as a CTO, otherwise i don't know if i would've taken the job.
I believe that programmers and tech ppl can only be managed properly by someone with the same background, NOT by someone 100% management, even if such a thing as CS Management course existes. If you weren't down in the trenches, you are not qualified to lead them.
Surely you mean COCOMO II, as it has superseded COCOMO. And yes, i know about the rest too, except for SCM, wtf is SCM?, as i am not american (nor a native english speaker) i am not familiar with the acronym.
If you really think that those or any other "concrete" things are what defines a software engineer you are sadly mistaken. Think about how the tech, and its implementation, changes from year to year and then think about what makes a SE.
IMHO a SE is someone not tied to any "book" or group of books, but someone who has learnt enough and has enough practice on the field to be above that and tackle ANY tech project or problem with confidence.
And not only that, as my job had required on several occasions, understand and manage Ledgers, and Due Dilligences, and Budegeting, Personnel evaluations, bonuses assingments, etc all fall onto your lap at some point in your climbing the managerial scale (if that is the path you choose to take) all of which were easy to handle thanks to the studying of stuff other than IT/CS you (at least I) make on SE, which i am positive would have been next to impossible had i been only a code-monkey.
Sadly you are right, as i left college almost 7 years ago programming and design courses have changed A LOT, which is not true for other more traditional engineering disciplines. As up to a year ago i worked in a highly tech environment i kept up with most of what was going on, but lately as i moved away i only view new ideas in project management, project and data desing and such, with mere curiosity and have stopped "studying" them.
But one thing i was shocked with was that, at that time, don't know how it is now, i was lacking in major skills like project collaboration (CVS, SourceSafe, etc..) which are important in almost any large company. I mean we obviously did work on projects collectively both sw and hw, but were left to our won devices on the coordination of that. At that time very little empasis was placed on online programming (asp, php, python, java) and mostly we learnt c++ (& VC++), smalltalk (!!), a realtime one whose name i can't recall, etc.
Perhaps a Software Engineer title should come with an expiration date (heh, á la MSCE)
Actually i don't. i started doing that but starting moving up, and away from coding, into more managerial jobs. up to CTO of an internet company (submarino.com) which as a miracle still survives today, but not in my country, so i left for other things.
The "irrelevant" courses from an IT perspective really broadens your scope and makes you better at higher management spots, the downside is that you move away from coding, but are still able to talk to the code-monkeys in their same language
On what you studied, here i took a 5 college year course including physics 1 & 2, thermodynamics, calculs, adv calculus and all the regular programming/db/hw subjects finishing with a work-experience paper presented 6 months after finishing classes to graduate.
I EARNED the right to be a Software Engineer.
these are the best bacteria to store information in. altho is 1000x human rad resistance that good ? what is cockroaches' rating ?
As they were selling them cheap, lets assume around 1/3 of retail ($5~$7), and, using RIAA math you get to only 21,415.6 cds a day.
If you also consider they probably worked 8 hrs a day (unless it was also a sweat shop, or had shifts
When compared to RIAA's 465 burners you only have a rate of 15cds/day/burner which is not impressive at all
IANAPsi
Depression is associated with a kind of fear. Not panicky fear, bur fear nonetheless.
Its usuallly associated with a total apathy (as opposed to the popular belief that its symptom is sadness) tied with a fear of not-belonging and pointlessness in every action.
I don't know how those fears are "feedbacked" into the depression spiral but maybe they could help in preventing the "escalation" of depression.
Its ALWAYS turned on by default. I mean we are all afraid of different things/situations.
I can own my own Thropter ... Arrakis here i come !
That comparison is totally off.
Parking is easier if you know how to handle a manual trans. Its only ppl who are not used to it who find it harder cos all the clutch-work involved. High speed driving (100+) is also easier, you have more control over the car.
Automatic is easier on high traffic and stop-go jams.
Windows is easier to admin in large qty than linux with tools designed for that like hyena and sms. The same things that make win more insecure are its remote admin/audit capabilities.
Only ppl in you contact list will be able to actually reach you, all the rest will end in a catch-all folder automatically deleted periodically.
:) that is a single acct that gets up to 20 spams/day !!
Some online services already offer this due to the overwhelming ammount of spam you get. I have a Hotmail acct i use to sign up to stuff online since '95. It gets around 10~15 spam daily which is caught by the spam filter and around 4~5 that get thru "misterioulsy"
These are the places to download the player:
PS2Newz.net
PS2Ownz.com
elotrolado.net
crackmanworld.com
indicedivx.com
bandaancha.st
WOW imagine a beowulf ... err never mind
EVERYTING that isn't explicitly forbidden is permitted.
My post, btw was not about this at all. It was about why its so hard for MS to publicly admit Linux as competition.
And also BTW, MS did not take any action at all, it just circulated an interal memo with proposed actions, so as far as i can see it can circulate almost anything in a memo and it be legal (with the possible exception that they plan to kill the president, which is a federal crime, even if its a joke)
Why not ? Is it SO bad for them to publicly acknowledge Linux (an other OSOS) as competition ?
That is the important thing here, that acknowledgement, cos all measures (legal) to gain market over your competition are ok.
How big an electronic trai do you think you leave on the "terrorist" countries ?
Not many shops take amex/mc/visa in Irak / Afghanistan. Not many places have computers for registering customers, airplane tickets are still made by hand.
O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
Is it still the land of the free ?
Just how do they plan to identify these so called "Terrorists" of commercial databases ?
... what do they think terrorists do ? use the internet for their purchases ? that Al Quaeda has an online site where they secretly login by clinking on the left nipple of a certain pic in a porn site ? (and if they did, do they think they'll be able to access that db with this computer ?)
... stop invading the whole world's privacy just on the slim chance that you may catch an amateur discomformist doing stupid things, Cos this is surely NOT the way to catch real ones
How can you possibly identify terrorists by searching thru say, Amazon purchases or ubid or ebay ?
If you bought a 101 explosives book, and purchased some potassium chlorate from ebay you are surely on their list, but c'mon
C'mon
If these guys had made this compatible with scsi, like emulating a scsi card and 1 device, so it could boot it would rock.
...
From power off to up and runnig in seconds !
This would be ideal to store an OS, even for a server, and have the HDs configured to copy the os back to the card and reboot in case it fails to boot from the card for some reason
Hook the power source to a ups and you can probably keep the info for more than a week without external power should you need. (i mean, how much juice can this need?)