I think if you looked closely at the people getting their cars repoed you would see that its not the big money guys. Its the people getting paid like they were big money guys. Like the article said, the Intel execs weren't getting repoed, but the execs elsewhere were. The difference there is that the Intel execs are big money guys for having produced something. They were people that could run a company within its means. Then there were the execs who had millions in options because they owned a domain name and business plan along the lines of heavyassbricksbymail.com. Dorks are dorks. Executive dorks, no matter how much you pay them, will never be money players.
While I've never known anyone (well, anyone who knew what they were doing) to start putting data into a new database before designing their app...
Its been my experience that data exists before the app does. In fact, its because that data exists that people want apps. The first step is to record the data and this can be done immediately by shoving it into a database.
Perhaps I could see using an OODBMS for optimization from an exisiting system, but these days optimization is often much easier by throwing more hardware at the problem.
My point still stands, I think, that GPL code is not walled off from corporations as claimed by MS. They are as free to use it as anyone else. That they may want to have a business plan they would like to bootstrap with tax money is irrelevant.
Imagine if all gov't code were to be released under the BSD license. This would lead to special interests asking for certain types of code to be release. Perhaps they want a kick ass TCP stack written. They get the DoD to write it, and release it under BSD license. Now they have subsidized the cost of their own R&D efforts.
I'll grant that neither license will destroy IP. But as long as my money is being forcibly taken from me, I would like just as much right to force GPL upon gov't software.
This is practically admitting that the GPL is a valid license. There have always been doubts because it have never really been brought up in court.
Also, the government using the GPL is completely correct because it was paid for through tax money. Saying that it is "walling if off from commercial business" is a half truth. It is mandating that commercial business may not wall it off from the people that paid for it.
As I understand it, anyone that distributes modified GPL code must make the source available to those it is distributed to at a cost of no more than the transmission fee (cd + shipping, download, whatever).
This means that for serverside software, the GPL is very similar to the BSD license. You can do pretty much anything you want to with it.
The issue MS needs to wrap their petty little brain around is that most companies couldn't care less about software IP as long as their software works. Most companies aren't reselling this software, and most of it does mundane tasks that are no real corporate secret, or corporate advantage. I can see where UPS wouldn't want to GPL their tracking, and logistic software, but they are probably not in the business of developing secret corporate TCP stacks.
It would also seem to me that if a whole bunch of games developed this kind of thing independently, without ever hearing about these bozos then the idea might qualify as obvious.
Of course there is always Neuromancer, and Snowcrash (where they are in fact called avatars.) The idea would have to be pretty damned obvious after reading those.
Sure they could just insert an (o) into the file name, but that would be an overt act of theft. There would be no possibility of an ambiguous defense like, "I only download mp3's that I have on cd already."
There is a huge difference in cultures between coders and musicians.
Coders can get paid kick ass wages for a regular day job, then have the luxury of giving away code they like.
A typical musician does not get by so easily, and certainly doesn't have the luxury of getting paid near six figures by playing the club circuit (and no comparable benefits either).
Of course there is still room for the amateur musician to contribute, but you'll get amateur results generally.
I just don't think musicians have the spare time and money to throw away what could prove valuable. The conditions and wages these guys put up with in the hopes of making it are worse than we could expect doing tech support.
Well they can build their books from games played, but that doesn't mean its useful. Part of the problem is that if a specific line is successful for 40 years, then is disproven in 1 game, a computer has no concept of it being disproven. While all the humans might immediately drop that opening line, a computer will only see 1 bad instance against many successful ones, and continue playing it. That's a vast oversimplification of the problem, but even with the ability to build its own book, a computer needs to be fed what games it should build from.
Yes they do actually. Deep Blue had many grandmasters working with the programmers to train it to beat one specific person. It played only 6 published games and was dismantled.
In its training it had literally thousands of Kasparov games to view.
How could a chess champion allow such a matchup? Well at the time there was a split between FIDE (most of the world), and the PCA(Kasparov and a few other top players. IBM had all the leverage in dealing with Kasparov. They could go to him and say, "we're running a big marketing campaign that will be calling someone the world chess champion, and if its not you, we'll get someone from FIDE." Kasparov is essentially forced into tournament, or face someone else being recognized as the world champ.
Uh, giving Kramnik the Computer's opening book is hardly unfair, since that book was developed by humans.
If you want fair, then the programmers should have to make the computers build their own book. This would set the computers ability back years as the initial position is relatively inscrutable.
By the time a student reaches the university level, it is presumed that they have an interest in math. If they are still looking for more application, then they should be taking physics, engineering, chemistry, economics..etc.
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There was rumor of a tall building going into one of the towns near Dallas. Since I live near enough to be impacted by it, I took a look at this kind of thing to see if its serious. Well, it turns out that every architect/builder/guy with a hammer has a plan for the tallest building in the world. They'll throw some plans together, file some papers in the city, then somehow the media will get a whiff of it and spam this companies name all over the area.
Call me a cynic, but its free advertising.
This project in China hasn't spent 1 dollar on it so far, and both sides are getting advertising out of it.
What is the normal discount provided to a store? That is, is this 50% discount more comparable to reducing the retail price to a wholesale price? If it is, they are just using LUGs as storefronts with great demographics.
My wife normally plays the Sims, building huge elaborate houses with intricate themes. That is, she doesn't like games with conflict. I'm trying to transition her to a more combative game, and I convinced her to play Black & White because a good portion of it is just playing around.
She's cruising through the tutorial having a great time when she is supposed to bring a rock back to the village sculptor. She fails to zoom in far enough, and drops the rock right on top of him. "No! I didn't want to kill him. Oh, no." She quits the game, turns off the computer (we never turn the computers off), goes downstairs and crawls under the covers.
Someday people will realize this is what its like to "play like a girl" and write a game accordingly.
I heard the only column in the database they could join on was with/. users. So as long as you don't use/. they can't aggregate all the data about you.
I think there is generally a higher standard for ironic than just unexpected though. Dying suddenly and unexpectedly of heart attack is not ironic. Its merely sudden and unexpected. Dying of heart attack when you are Jim Fixx is ironic.
I would say it has to be something unexpected that happens contrary to the traits involved, and not merely something happening against long odds.
Should we realize we are "just another country" as the others that have faltered? Should we go ahead and fail now and save everyone the time?
The US has contributed greatly to the world, establishing a country granted rights from the people. Not a country that bestows rights to the people.
Russia was kind enough to bring the world genocide surpassing even Hitler. The US brought a stance against communism.
Basically, if we suck, then why does everyone keep copying us? Stop watching our movies, stop buying our stuff, and stop moving here. No? Then stop complaining that everywhere else is better.
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I think if you looked closely at the people getting their cars repoed you would see that its not the big money guys. Its the people getting paid like they were big money guys. Like the article said, the Intel execs weren't getting repoed, but the execs elsewhere were. The difference there is that the Intel execs are big money guys for having produced something. They were people that could run a company within its means. Then there were the execs who had millions in options because they owned a domain name and business plan along the lines of heavyassbricksbymail.com. Dorks are dorks. Executive dorks, no matter how much you pay them, will never be money players.
Its been my experience that data exists before the app does. In fact, its because that data exists that people want apps. The first step is to record the data and this can be done immediately by shoving it into a database.
Perhaps I could see using an OODBMS for optimization from an exisiting system, but these days optimization is often much easier by throwing more hardware at the problem.
My point still stands, I think, that GPL code is not walled off from corporations as claimed by MS. They are as free to use it as anyone else. That they may want to have a business plan they would like to bootstrap with tax money is irrelevant.
Imagine if all gov't code were to be released under the BSD license. This would lead to special interests asking for certain types of code to be release. Perhaps they want a kick ass TCP stack written. They get the DoD to write it, and release it under BSD license. Now they have subsidized the cost of their own R&D efforts.
I'll grant that neither license will destroy IP. But as long as my money is being forcibly taken from me, I would like just as much right to force GPL upon gov't software.
Also, the government using the GPL is completely correct because it was paid for through tax money. Saying that it is "walling if off from commercial business" is a half truth. It is mandating that commercial business may not wall it off from the people that paid for it.
This means that for serverside software, the GPL is very similar to the BSD license. You can do pretty much anything you want to with it.
The issue MS needs to wrap their petty little brain around is that most companies couldn't care less about software IP as long as their software works. Most companies aren't reselling this software, and most of it does mundane tasks that are no real corporate secret, or corporate advantage. I can see where UPS wouldn't want to GPL their tracking, and logistic software, but they are probably not in the business of developing secret corporate TCP stacks.
And I'd have to like the claw hammer in a head to head competition.
Patent Nov 96.
Games are ok...or am I reading the patent wrong?
It would also seem to me that if a whole bunch of games developed this kind of thing independently, without ever hearing about these bozos then the idea might qualify as obvious.
Of course there is always Neuromancer, and Snowcrash (where they are in fact called avatars.) The idea would have to be pretty damned obvious after reading those.
Sure they could just insert an (o) into the file name, but that would be an overt act of theft. There would be no possibility of an ambiguous defense like, "I only download mp3's that I have on cd already."
Coders can get paid kick ass wages for a regular day job, then have the luxury of giving away code they like.
A typical musician does not get by so easily, and certainly doesn't have the luxury of getting paid near six figures by playing the club circuit (and no comparable benefits either).
Of course there is still room for the amateur musician to contribute, but you'll get amateur results generally.
I just don't think musicians have the spare time and money to throw away what could prove valuable. The conditions and wages these guys put up with in the hopes of making it are worse than we could expect doing tech support.
Well they can build their books from games played, but that doesn't mean its useful. Part of the problem is that if a specific line is successful for 40 years, then is disproven in 1 game, a computer has no concept of it being disproven. While all the humans might immediately drop that opening line, a computer will only see 1 bad instance against many successful ones, and continue playing it. That's a vast oversimplification of the problem, but even with the ability to build its own book, a computer needs to be fed what games it should build from.
In its training it had literally thousands of Kasparov games to view.
How could a chess champion allow such a matchup? Well at the time there was a split between FIDE (most of the world), and the PCA(Kasparov and a few other top players. IBM had all the leverage in dealing with Kasparov. They could go to him and say, "we're running a big marketing campaign that will be calling someone the world chess champion, and if its not you, we'll get someone from FIDE." Kasparov is essentially forced into tournament, or face someone else being recognized as the world champ.
That's just the way I see it.
If you want fair, then the programmers should have to make the computers build their own book. This would set the computers ability back years as the initial position is relatively inscrutable.
Call me a cynic, but its free advertising.
This project in China hasn't spent 1 dollar on it so far, and both sides are getting advertising out of it.
Screw gears (and practicality). I want rocket power.
What is the normal discount provided to a store? That is, is this 50% discount more comparable to reducing the retail price to a wholesale price? If it is, they are just using LUGs as storefronts with great demographics.
She's cruising through the tutorial having a great time when she is supposed to bring a rock back to the village sculptor. She fails to zoom in far enough, and drops the rock right on top of him. "No! I didn't want to kill him. Oh, no." She quits the game, turns off the computer (we never turn the computers off), goes downstairs and crawls under the covers.
Someday people will realize this is what its like to "play like a girl" and write a game accordingly.
Well it can be very bad. You have to sell a lot of Linux to make $500. 500 divided by free is, um...
Of course if redundancy works properly the DOS attack gets rerouted, you are still getting attacked...
After the crap put forth just recently, I refuse to recognize anything outside of the trilogy.
I've heard that every operating system delivered has a secret back door that allows the copying of trademarked material. Its called the file system.
You'll go blind if you keep that up.
My sources are impeccable. Really.
I would say it has to be something unexpected that happens contrary to the traits involved, and not merely something happening against long odds.
The US has contributed greatly to the world, establishing a country granted rights from the people. Not a country that bestows rights to the people.
Russia was kind enough to bring the world genocide surpassing even Hitler. The US brought a stance against communism.
Basically, if we suck, then why does everyone keep copying us? Stop watching our movies, stop buying our stuff, and stop moving here. No? Then stop complaining that everywhere else is better.