How come none of the games you link to are the versions under dispute? The games you link to are made by companies which did not settle any lawsuit with Hasbro. I believe that is called misinformation.
Exactly what does this mean? The games are the same, GT Interactive and Varcon are being sued for packaging them together and selling them. Secondly if you had read the article or my post you would see that GT Interactive and Varcon delisted the games as part of the settlement so the exact copies cannot be linked to because they no longer or on GT Interactive's page and I could only find this link for Varcon System's game pack.
If you are going to quote the article don't quote out of context, how about adding
Not only will they pay damages to Hasbro, they will cease selling the products in question (which were for the most part "game packs" of bargain-priced titles). The result is that Hasbro's right to control these intellectual properties - which have been copied, imitated, modified and expanded throughout the history of video game development - has now been established.
I cannot say exactly what the legal ramifications of a cash settlement plus an offer to stop selling the disputed software will do to the industry as a whole but we must remember this: The disputed games were complete rip offs of the Hasbro games with graphics changed. Look at MunchMan, Mac Man, and Missile Defender which are three of the disputed games. I am not so sure that this settlement will translate directly into lawsuits based on game genre.
Considering that id Software are creaters of Doom, Heretic, Hexen, Quake and Wolfenstein 3D (basically all the good FPS games, except Halflife which runs on the Quake Engine and Unreal which does not) I doubt that we will be seeing a lawsuit based on clones of First Person Shooter's anytime soon (Carmack won't do it).
I agree advertising only leads to more advertising and shitty service. Case in point: You can watch 'free' television with 15 - 20 minutes advertising (30 %), pandering to the lowest common denominator (When Animals Attack? When Good Pets Go Bad? ) , lack of minority representation,and a complete disconnection from viewers and disinterest in improving the quality of the shows (or even killing off good shows that have passed their prime). Or you can watch premium TV and for $10 a month get quality shows (Sopranos, Sex In The City, Oz), no advertising spam in between shows, shows that end once the spark is gone since with no ad dollars there's no point in keeping a show alive once its past its prime a la Frasier or Friends (thus the Sopranos will end in the 5th season), minorities being represented in realistic, non-stereotypical, gripping roles and constant improvement of service (or else you switch service).
With this prior knowledge, why would anyone clamour for more advertising supported services? I'd rather pay once and for all and keep away advertisers than have my personal data, tastes and habits sold to one and all to defray the costs of me watching a movie. Like, my personal viewing habits, address, etc. are worth how ever many measely dollars I am saving by watching advertising supported material. Yeah, right.
I mean, can you imagine what the people that have spent 6 years getting a MSCS have gone through? Let's see, in 1994 they were using Win3.11/Dos5. 1995, Win95A. '96-Win95B. 1998 - Win98. 1999 - Win98SE. Toss in the changes made to Windows NT/2000 (That would be from 3.51 to W2K) and all of the different *nixs and look what you have... People with a lot of knowledge about outdated, mundane, obsolete technology. I guess you could argue that they still have that knowledge and can use it towards modern stuff, but I would still rather have the education in things that can help me get a job today...
Your above example depends on the strength of the computer science department at whatever college you attended. In general a good computer science degree will not be bogged in specifics of any one operating system or language except as tools to teach specific concepts. For instance here at GeorgiaTech the OS of choice is primarily Unix, every CS student takes intensive classes in compiler and translation theory (code in C, lex and yacc), object oriented programming ( 1 class in Java and 1 in Smalltalk), operating system components (write hard drive controllers and other low level system components in C/C++), automata theory, proofs and applied combinatorics as well as a design class that involves creating a shipping product for a local company of choice. What I have just described is the mandatory CS curriculum that every CS student takes before branching of into specializations. Now with this non-OS specific (yet primarily *nix based) curriculum I have friends who will be working at MSFT in the summer (Yes, even though most of their school-based experience of NT is simply as the OS where their code is written because they don't want to boot Linux or Solaris) as well as others who will be working on next gen web applications using technologies that were still drafts a year ago. Now the jobs and positions most of my friends and I have gotten are irrespective of applications we used in school because employers know we have the background to pick up new technologies and understand the concepts behind technologies and not just how to use them. Case in point, I recently turned down a position at Intel working on testing compilers for a new generation of chips for mobile processors because I hate testing. I got this position even though I have no knowledge of assembly because I have the knowledge of compiler theory concepts and know how to program. The poeple at Intel realized rightly that this was more important than merely knowing the specifics of a language, in their words if you believe you can pick up assembly, the job is yours.
On the other hand at my girlfriend's university the entire CS curriculum is taught by 2 professors and is peppered with classes like Programming with Visual Basic, Introduction to C++ and Using Computer Applications. I agree that such a curriculum will create students that will be obsolete before they graduate.
You are quoted as once saying, "Programmers should work as waiters so that they can afford to give away their code". With the advent of companies like Red Hat profitting from Free software I have noticed several places on the GNU website where you acknowledge that wealth from Free Software is acceptable as long as the software is free (as in speech). I have assumed (maybe wrongly) that one of the purposes behind the GPL was to make sure software stayed free (as in beer) by giving purchasers complete distribution rights so even if the original creator of the software sold it at $1000 a pop, a buyer could then resell at whatever lesser price they liked ($500, $100, $10, $0). This would eventually make GPLed software tend to be free (as in beer).
Does the emergence and your (seeming) acceptance of companies like Red Hat and VA Linux which have made multi-millionairres out of some Free Software proponents mean that you have softened your stance towards the accumulation of wealth from software or were you incorrectly quoted in the article I read the quote from (and if so what is the original quote?).
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Fine, your post is all well and good if the people who lost their money were only day traders and MSFT shareholders but this unfortunately is not the case. The biggest losers in the stock market have been Linux pure plays. I know this because I have virtual portfolios and track the shares of Corel, VA linux, Red Hat and Caldera several times a day. It is clear from reading their charts that Linux companies have been dropping like rocks since mid-January while the entire Tech industry has been soaring up until the beginning of this month.
Several of these companies sent out the letter to several hackers who borrowed money or said they did here and here. Now how does it feel laughing in the face of poor students and hackers because they decided to invest in Linux based companies (which you obviously didn't because you'd be b*tching if you had shares in a company that was trading lower than it's IPO value like Andover and VA Linux instead of saying crap about doing research). I personally believe that gloating over the misfortune of others is evil especially since it affects us all. Firstly this will probably result in more mergers and aquisitions thereby consolidating power in fewer companies, also the fact that $2 trillion dollars was lost last week in the market correction thereby erasing the last year's $1.7 trillion gain in household income from stocks is not something to gloat over.
The fact that the post I am responding to has been moderated to a 5 makes me wonder about the character of the typical slashdot reader(i.e. moderator).
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Aaaargh!!! I just accidentally deleted a lengthy post on the need for Straw Man cases to bring to the public view what consumer rights are slowly being eroded by the passing of UCITA and DMCA type laws. Anyway I'll post the last paragraph of my original post.
I recently read somewhere that Stephen King was shocked and dismayed when he found out that he could not read an eBook he wrote in it's final form because at the time there was no authorized reader for the Macintosh. What shocked and dismayed him was that even if it was possible for him to write or download a reader for himself, he could not because it was illegal (gotta love the DMCA). Unfortunately, before he could create any reasonable outcry/uproar a Mac reader for the eBook was released.
I agree with RMS in his article when he states
Why is there so little public debate about these momentous changes? Most citizens have not yet had occasion to come to grips with the political issues raised by this futuristic technology. Besides, the public has been taught that copyright exists to "protect" the copyright holders, with the implication that the public's interests do not count. But when the public at large begins to use e-books, and discovers the regime that the publishers have prepared for them, they will begin to resist. Humanity will not accept this yoke forever. The publishers would have us believe that suppressive copyright is the only way to keep art alive, but we do not need a War on Copying to encourage a diversity of published works; as the Grateful Dead showed, private copying among fans is not necessarily a problem for artists. By legalizing the copying of e-books among friends, we can turn copyright back into the industrial regulation it once was.
I will take it one step further and add this: Once software truly becomes ubiqitous, UCITA and DMCA will face so much negative pressure that they will be repealed or toned down the same way the Communications Decency Act faced negative pressure once a critical mass of people got online and encountered difficulties because of it.
Considering that Metallica is the only artist/group for whom I have found every song from any album I have searched for on Napster, this isn't that surprising. At least most other artists' songs that are on there are singles/MTV hits so there is still incentive to go get the CD.
With all the strange laws and weird judgements getting passed (ISPs being liable for content in Germany & Britain) I hope Metallica doesn't win this case due to some fancy lawyer work and a sympathetic judge.
Also, does anyone know how Napster pays for all their lawyers? I still cannot figure out exactly what the company's revenue stream is, if you do, please satisfy my curiousity.
Here read this article. It has a history of Jennicam and how it became famous plus a few emails from flame wars Jenny got in over her webcam site. Anyway, her site was the first webcam site, so this makes her a pioneer of something that's now a common aspect of Net culture. I would call that geek news.
This seems to be a horrific example of what can only be described as patent squatting. Besides the fact that the InTouch patent filed in 1999 simply described ongoing practices at CDNow, Amazon and dozens of other music sites, it does not seem like InTouch has any customers or that their technology is being used anywhere. Their website contains nothing but sales pitches and has no mention of customers or anywhere their software is being deployed. IIRC, there is a law against obtaining a patent then waiting for companies to make money off of it then suing them.
It will be interesting to see how this plays out in court.
We don't need to boycott InTouch because we weren't going to buy their product in the first place. InTouch is suing because they say Amazon violated patents on this device. From what I can tell it is a set-top box that allows one to listen to samples of music on InTouch's website. This settop box is completely useless given that most CD store sites allow you to listen to previews of music in MP3 or Real Audio format (heck Billboard let's you do that), so there is probably zero demand for their product. The device is the biggest case of shortsighted thinking I've ever seen in my life, because all it does is play music samples from off InTouch's site. Once online music previews became popular the device became obsolete but instead of coming up with a new product or a new use for the device the company wants to sue everyone that provides online music samples meaning we all have to buy their stupid settop box if they win or websites will have to pay licensing costs. This is definitely the most frivolous web patent yet.
My mistake for not being clearer, I meant applets when I used web apps in reference to HTML and script kiddies. Java Server Pages and servlets are very good technologies but most people think applets with regards to Java on the web.
*sigh* I'm back from school and can see your're still posting pro-MSFT drivel without due consideration of the facts. I have 2 friends who will be on the Visual Studio development team in the summer and even they do not take liberties with the facts like you have just done. In a 3 tier app (DB, middleware, web) the speed bottlenecks are a.) the amount of time to do reads and writes to/from the database b.) the amount of time to send data over the network. Even if VB was 10 times faster than Java on the client (which is a bold faced lie in this age of Just-In-Time compilers that convert Java to native code) the two aforementioned bottlenecks will reduce the speed level of the entire application so that the difference between VB and Java implementations is negligible.
PS: With regards to speed of deployment, there is no contest, Visual Basic is king.
OK I'm late for class so I'll make this quick. The point of my post was that the original poster was bitching about Swing being a come-and-go fix that would make him look like a relic on his resume. The part about swing being come and go is simply not true. Secondly who puts aspects of a language on their resume? Not I know Java, but I know the AWT or Swing only?!? If you know Java anbd you know how to program using swing is simply using another bunch of classes or another library...it's not like people go around saying I know how to use the string.h libraries in C and put that on their resume
Yes, well you could do the same thing in VB in probably half the time, and it would run 10 times faster.
Next time click the links before answering... Java web pages serve faster than anything script based except mod_perl because they are memory resident via the Virtual Machine while CGi has to be read from disk. So the 10 times faster crack is simply bullshit. Secondly why did you assume I meant I was using Windows? Aight, gotta go to class, later.
Headline News From Around The Industry April 11, 2000
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SilverStream to bundle Java e-business integrattion technology with application server suite Cerebellum Software,Inc., and SilverStream Software, Inc., , today announced at the SilverSummit 2000 User's Conference that the Cerebellum(TM) Internet data integration product will be bu... (PR Newswire: April 11, 2000, 08:03 AM)
Netcom Systems brings Java-based security to Cisco Security Associate program CA-WORLD 2000 --NetCom Systems netForensics v1.2 has received validation from Cisco Systems, Inc. to become part of the Cisco Security Associate program. NetCom's netForensics(TM) , end-... (PR Newswire: April 11, 2000, 08:03 AM)
BravePoint to resell and implement Cerebellum Java e-business integration technology Cerebellum Software, Inc., whichdevelops the Cerebellum(TM) Internet data integration technology for linking e-business applications with corporate data systems, today announced an agreemen... (PR Newswire: April 11, 2000, 08:03 AM)
Oracle8i adoption reaches 17,000 customers, 500,000 downloads Oracle Corp. , the largest provider of software for e-business, today announced that since March 1999 more than 17,000 companies have purchased Oracle8i(TM), making it the fastest growin... (PR Newswire: April 11, 2000, 08:02 AM)
RSA Security ads Java PKI to product lineup Highlighting this week's inaugural RSA Conference 2000 Europe, RSA Security Inc. , the most trusted name in e-security, today unveiled an easier, faster and safer way to create Java-based PK... (PR Newswire: April 11, 2000, 08:02 AM)
Merinta basks in limelight of Virgin Magastores Java Net appliance launch Merinta, Inc., a subsidiary ofBoundless Corporation , announced today that its first customer, Internet Appliance Network began rollout of the first 10,000 Webplayer(TM) Internet Applian... (PR Newswire: April 11, 2000, 08:01 AM)
QuickVideo for Linux shines with Java Media Framework LAS VEGAS, Apr 11, 2000 - InfoValue Computing Inc. unveiled the industry's first complete, end-to-end video streaming solution for Linux workstations at NAB this week in Las Vegas.... (Business Wire: April 11, 2000, 06:45 AM)
Silverstream Software Licenses Sun's Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition-J2ee- WASHINGTON, Apr 10, 2000 - SilverStream eBusiness Platform Based on J2EE Standard SilverStream Software, Inc. , The eBusiness Platform Company, today announced a strategic alliance... (Business Wire: April 10, 2000, 09:21 AM)
can anyone point me to a real-world application or website that actually uses Java? I mean properly, not just a tiny applet showing the time or something.
And from Sun's page of industry news, we have companies like RSA, Oracle, Netcom, SAAB, Delta Air etc. using Java in mission critical situations on a daily basis. Posts like this make me wonder about who composes slashdot's readership. Because only script kiddies and so-called web developers (HTML and javascript kiddies) use Java as a web app language. Also no one in his right mind uses Java for GUI development if the application has any degree of complexity. But as a middleware development language it is practically untouchable. When it comes to speed of development, maintainability and expandability for business applications few things beat Java. Add a native GUI or web interface depending on your application and a rock solid app has been created.
PS: Myth dispel mode Oh yeah, by the way Java pages are faster or at the very least as fast as CGI, it has to do with being memory resident a la the VM as opposed to being read from disk. Here's a benchmark and a link or two.
Java is an amazingly easy language and has great in support with the online API and the online tutorial that explain every aspect of the language. Last fall, I had no prior knowledge of Java and was an intermediate C++ programmer. With the above links as my primary guides I am now an excellent Java developer. In fact, at the start of my spring break I wanted to create an online survey with the data stored in an Oracle database. With no prior knowledge of JDBC or servlets I created my survey within 3 days (most of which was spent configuring, java web servlet engines & battling the fact that Oracle doesn't support jdk 1.2).
My point is this, languages change and mature all the time. C today is not C of 20 years ago. C++ has changed enough in the last decade that a large number of developers in industry are mystified by several aspects of the language (STL? exception handling? namespaces?). Java is a mere 5 years old and to believe the language will not evolve further before stabilizing is wishful thinking. But at least in Java's case clicking a few webpages on Sun's webpage bring you up to speed rapidly.
PS: The MSCE crack is not a flame but a genuine question. I have noticed that MSCE's unlike computer science majors believe that once one learns something that's all they have to know. I guess it comes from getting certification after taking a few exams while CS majors usually use several languages in school and also since they spend 4 years in school usually see how languages change/mature before they get into the real world.
PPS: You actually have Swing as an item in your resume? Interesting.
One of the classes I took last semester had such an application but it was rather simple (not very complex UML diagrams). I planned to hack at it but never found a good book on UML so I never did. Here's a link to the application for Windows, Macs, and *nix.
3: sell the i-opener at $199 to those who don't sign up for service that way they will make some money off their products,
This is the idea I originally had until I remembered that even at $199 the I-opener is a loss leader. The netpliance originally cost $300 as can be seen at the bottom of this article and in this article it states they upped the price to $300 after using $199 as an intro price. The current price of $99 is a promotion and is not a price the company will be able to maintain for the long term.
Secondly 1 year of service costs $250 ($21.50 * 12) which is about a $100 of profit per year. A more suitable and realistic plan would probably be
1. sell the I-opener at $149 to those who sign up for at least 2 years of service. (Total customer expenditure - $649)
2. sell the I-opener at $259 to those who sign up for 1 year of service. (Total customer expenditure - $549)
3. sell the I-opener at $450 to those who sign up for at least 2 years of service. (Total customer expenditure - $450)
PS: We all know that being a loss leader never works out, after all look at what happened to CDNow.
I'd really love to be able to take a gander at whatever translation table Ask Jesus uses. By trying it out on my homepage I noticed the following interesting substitutions.
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Here's the motorola press release and Yes, there'll be Linux support.
How come none of the games you link to are the versions under dispute? The games you link to are made by companies which did not settle any lawsuit with Hasbro. I believe that is called misinformation.
Exactly what does this mean? The games are the same, GT Interactive and Varcon are being sued for packaging them together and selling them. Secondly if you had read the article or my post you would see that GT Interactive and Varcon delisted the games as part of the settlement so the exact copies cannot be linked to because they no longer or on GT Interactive's page and I could only find this link for Varcon System's game pack.
I cannot say exactly what the legal ramifications of a cash settlement plus an offer to stop selling the disputed software will do to the industry as a whole but we must remember this: The disputed games were complete rip offs of the Hasbro games with graphics changed. Look at MunchMan, Mac Man, and Missile Defender which are three of the disputed games. I am not so sure that this settlement will translate directly into lawsuits based on game genre.
Considering that id Software are creaters of Doom, Heretic, Hexen, Quake and Wolfenstein 3D (basically all the good FPS games, except Halflife which runs on the Quake Engine and Unreal which does not) I doubt that we will be seeing a lawsuit based on clones of First Person Shooter's anytime soon (Carmack won't do it).
I agree advertising only leads to more advertising and shitty service.
Case in point: You can watch 'free' television with 15 - 20 minutes advertising (30 %), pandering to the lowest common denominator (When Animals Attack? When Good Pets Go Bad? ) , lack of minority representation,and a complete disconnection from viewers and disinterest in improving the quality of the shows (or even killing off good shows that have passed their prime). Or you can watch premium TV and for $10 a month get quality shows (Sopranos, Sex In The City, Oz), no advertising spam in between shows, shows that end once the spark is gone since with no ad dollars there's no point in keeping a show alive once its past its prime a la Frasier or Friends (thus the Sopranos will end in the 5th season), minorities being represented in realistic, non-stereotypical, gripping roles and constant improvement of service (or else you switch service).
With this prior knowledge, why would anyone clamour for more advertising supported services?
I'd rather pay once and for all and keep away advertisers than have my personal data, tastes and habits sold to one and all to defray the costs of me watching a movie. Like, my personal viewing habits, address, etc. are worth how ever many measely dollars I am saving by watching advertising supported material. Yeah, right.
In the parody interview with Jeeves when asked Why you little...that's just like a search engine. Ask a question and get no answer.
Jeeves responds with Myth: Ask Jeeves Is An Answer Database.
I mean, can you imagine what the people that have spent 6 years getting a MSCS have gone through? Let's see, in 1994 they were using Win3.11/Dos5. 1995, Win95A. '96-Win95B. 1998 - Win98. 1999 - Win98SE. Toss in the changes made to Windows NT/2000 (That would be from 3.51 to W2K) and all of the different *nixs and look what you have... People with a lot of knowledge about outdated, mundane, obsolete technology. I guess you could argue that they still have that knowledge and can use it towards modern stuff, but I would still rather have the education in things that can help me get a job today...
Your above example depends on the strength of the computer science department at whatever college you attended. In general a good computer science degree will not be bogged in specifics of any one operating system or language except as tools to teach specific concepts. For instance here at GeorgiaTech the OS of choice is primarily Unix, every CS student takes intensive classes in compiler and translation theory (code in C, lex and yacc), object oriented programming ( 1 class in Java and 1 in Smalltalk), operating system components (write hard drive controllers and other low level system components in C/C++), automata theory, proofs and applied combinatorics as well as a design class that involves creating a shipping product for a local company of choice. What I have just described is the mandatory CS curriculum that every CS student takes before branching of into specializations. Now with this non-OS specific (yet primarily *nix based) curriculum I have friends who will be working at MSFT in the summer (Yes, even though most of their school-based experience of NT is simply as the OS where their code is written because they don't want to boot Linux or Solaris) as well as others who will be working on next gen web applications using technologies that were still drafts a year ago. Now the jobs and positions most of my friends and I have gotten are irrespective of applications we used in school because employers know we have the background to pick up new technologies and understand the concepts behind technologies and not just how to use them.
Case in point, I recently turned down a position at Intel working on testing compilers for a new generation of chips for mobile processors because I hate testing. I got this position even though I have no knowledge of assembly because I have the knowledge of compiler theory concepts and know how to program. The poeple at Intel realized rightly that this was more important than merely knowing the specifics of a language, in their words if you believe you can pick up assembly, the job is yours.
On the other hand at my girlfriend's university the entire CS curriculum is taught by 2 professors and is peppered with classes like Programming with Visual Basic, Introduction to C++ and Using Computer Applications. I agree that such a curriculum will create students that will be obsolete before they graduate.
You are quoted as once saying, "Programmers should work as waiters so that they can afford to give away their code". With the advent of companies like Red Hat profitting from Free software I have noticed several places on the GNU website where you acknowledge that wealth from Free Software is acceptable as long as the software is free (as in speech). I have assumed (maybe wrongly) that one of the purposes behind the GPL was to make sure software stayed free (as in beer) by giving purchasers complete distribution rights so even if the original creator of the software sold it at $1000 a pop, a buyer could then resell at whatever lesser price they liked ($500, $100, $10, $0). This would eventually make GPLed software tend to be free (as in beer).
Does the emergence and your (seeming) acceptance of companies like Red Hat and VA Linux which have made multi-millionairres out of some Free Software proponents mean that you have softened your stance towards the accumulation of wealth from software or were you incorrectly quoted in the article I read the quote from (and if so what is the original quote?).
Fine, your post is all well and good if the people who lost their money were only day traders and MSFT shareholders but this unfortunately is not the case. The biggest losers in the stock market have been Linux pure plays. I know this because I have virtual portfolios and track the shares of Corel, VA linux, Red Hat and Caldera several times a day. It is clear from reading their charts that Linux companies have been dropping like rocks since mid-January while the entire Tech industry has been soaring up until the beginning of this month.
Several of these companies sent out the letter to several hackers who borrowed money or said they did here and here. Now how does it feel laughing in the face of poor students and hackers because they decided to invest in Linux based companies (which you obviously didn't because you'd be b*tching if you had shares in a company that was trading lower than it's IPO value like Andover and VA Linux instead of saying crap about doing research). I personally believe that gloating over the misfortune of others is evil especially since it affects us all. Firstly this will probably result in more mergers and aquisitions thereby consolidating power in fewer companies, also the fact that $2 trillion dollars was lost last week in the market correction thereby erasing the last year's $1.7 trillion gain in household income from stocks is not something to gloat over.
The fact that the post I am responding to has been moderated to a 5 makes me wonder about the character of the typical slashdot reader(i.e. moderator).
I recently read somewhere that Stephen King was shocked and dismayed when he found out that he could not read an eBook he wrote in it's final form because at the time there was no authorized reader for the Macintosh. What shocked and dismayed him was that even if it was possible for him to write or download a reader for himself, he could not because it was illegal (gotta love the DMCA). Unfortunately, before he could create any reasonable outcry/uproar a Mac reader for the eBook was released.
I agree with RMS in his article when he states
- Why is there so little public debate about these momentous changes? Most citizens have not yet had occasion to come to grips with the political issues raised by this futuristic technology. Besides, the public has been taught that copyright exists to "protect" the copyright holders, with the implication that the public's interests do not count.
I will take it one step further and add this:But when the public at large begins to use e-books, and discovers the regime that the publishers have prepared for them, they will begin to resist. Humanity will not accept this yoke forever.
The publishers would have us believe that suppressive copyright is the only way to keep art alive, but we do not need a War on Copying to encourage a diversity of published works; as the Grateful Dead showed, private copying among fans is not necessarily a problem for artists. By legalizing the copying of e-books among friends, we can turn copyright back into the industrial regulation it once was.
Once software truly becomes ubiqitous, UCITA and DMCA will face so much negative pressure that they will be repealed or toned down the same way the Communications Decency Act faced negative pressure once a critical mass of people got online and encountered difficulties because of it.
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Considering that Metallica is the only artist/group for whom I have found every song from any album I have searched for on Napster, this isn't that surprising.
At least most other artists' songs that are on there are singles/MTV hits so there is still incentive to go get the CD.
With all the strange laws and weird judgements getting passed (ISPs being liable for content in Germany & Britain) I hope Metallica doesn't win this case due to some fancy lawyer work and a sympathetic judge.
Also, does anyone know how Napster pays for all their lawyers? I still cannot figure out exactly what the company's revenue stream is, if you do, please satisfy my curiousity.
Here read this article. It has a history of Jennicam and how it became famous plus a few emails from flame wars Jenny got in over her webcam site.
Anyway, her site was the first webcam site, so this makes her a pioneer of something that's now a common aspect of Net culture. I would call that geek news.
The InTouch patents US5237157: Kiosk apparatus and method for point of preview and for compilation of market data and US5963916: Network apparatus and method for preview of music products and compilation of market data give remarkable insight into the minds of InTouch. The first patent is specific to their iStation device and mentions kiosks and CD stores and the like. It seems that after their device gained no market share (because it's a dumb idea) they decided to refile a new patent in 1999 that basically was a rewording of their original patent with the words kiosk and apparatus taken out and substituted with networked computer.
This seems to be a horrific example of what can only be described as patent squatting. Besides the fact that the InTouch patent filed in 1999 simply described ongoing practices at CDNow, Amazon and dozens of other music sites, it does not seem like InTouch has any customers or that their technology is being used anywhere. Their website contains nothing but sales pitches and has no mention of customers or anywhere their software is being deployed. IIRC, there is a law against obtaining a patent then waiting for companies to make money off of it then suing them.
It will be interesting to see how this plays out in court.
Here are a few sites that are still keeping the love alive.
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Battle Of the Planets Universe
Absolute Anime/Battle of the Planets
Battle of the Planets
Sadly it doesn't look like the show will ever come back. There are a few copies on sale at Amazon's Auctions though.
We don't need to boycott InTouch because we weren't going to buy their product in the first place.
InTouch is suing because they say Amazon violated patents on this device. From what I can tell it is a set-top box that allows one to listen to samples of music on InTouch's website. This settop box is completely useless given that most CD store sites allow you to listen to previews of music in MP3 or Real Audio format (heck Billboard let's you do that), so there is probably zero demand for their product. The device is the biggest case of shortsighted thinking I've ever seen in my life, because all it does is play music samples from off InTouch's site. Once online music previews became popular the device became obsolete but instead of coming up with a new product or a new use for the device the company wants to sue everyone that provides online music samples meaning we all have to buy their stupid settop box if they win or websites will have to pay licensing costs. This is definitely the most frivolous web patent yet.
My mistake for not being clearer, I meant applets when I used web apps in reference to HTML and script kiddies. Java Server Pages and servlets are very good technologies but most people think applets with regards to Java on the web.
*sigh*
I'm back from school and can see your're still posting pro-MSFT drivel without due consideration of the facts. I have 2 friends who will be on the Visual Studio development team in the summer and even they do not take liberties with the facts like you have just done.
In a 3 tier app (DB, middleware, web) the speed bottlenecks are a.) the amount of time to do reads and writes to/from the database b.) the amount of time to send data over the network. Even if VB was 10 times faster than Java on the client (which is a bold faced lie in this age of Just-In-Time compilers that convert Java to native code) the two aforementioned bottlenecks will reduce the speed level of the entire application so that the difference between VB and Java implementations is negligible.
PS: With regards to speed of deployment, there is no contest, Visual Basic is king.
OK I'm late for class so I'll make this quick. The point of my post was that the original poster was bitching about Swing being a come-and-go fix that would make him look like a relic on his resume. The part about swing being come and go is simply not true. Secondly who puts aspects of a language on their resume? Not I know Java, but I know the AWT or Swing only?!? If you know Java anbd you know how to program using swing is simply using another bunch of classes or another library...it's not like people go around saying I know how to use the string.h libraries in C and put that on their resume
Yes, well you could do the same thing in VB in probably half the time, and it would run 10 times faster.
Next time click the links before answering...
Java web pages serve faster than anything script based except mod_perl because they are memory resident via the Virtual Machine while CGi has to be read from disk. So the 10 times faster crack is simply bullshit. Secondly why did you assume I meant I was using Windows?
Aight, gotta go to class, later.
Again just from the Sun industry news page.
,the leading provider of Internet-scale content management solutions for powering e-business applications, today announced that Informative Graphics Corp., a leading developer of ...
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Informative Graphics aims to make Java visualization tool standard front-end to Documentum
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(PR Newswire: April 11, 2000, 08:04 AM)
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(PR Newswire: April 11, 2000, 08:03 AM)
Netcom Systems brings Java-based security to Cisco Security Associate program
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(PR Newswire: April 11, 2000, 08:03 AM)
BravePoint to resell and implement Cerebellum Java e-business integration technology
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(PR Newswire: April 11, 2000, 08:03 AM)
Oracle8i adoption reaches 17,000 customers, 500,000 downloads
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(PR Newswire: April 11, 2000, 08:02 AM)
RSA Security ads Java PKI to product lineup
Highlighting this week's inaugural RSA Conference 2000 Europe, RSA Security Inc. , the most trusted name in e-security, today unveiled an easier, faster and safer way to create Java-based PK...
(PR Newswire: April 11, 2000, 08:02 AM)
Merinta basks in limelight of Virgin Magastores Java Net appliance launch
Merinta, Inc., a subsidiary ofBoundless Corporation , announced today that its first customer, Internet Appliance Network began rollout of the first 10,000 Webplayer(TM) Internet Applian...
(PR Newswire: April 11, 2000, 08:01 AM)
QuickVideo for Linux shines with Java Media Framework
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(Business Wire: April 11, 2000, 06:45 AM)
Silverstream Software Licenses Sun's Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition-J2ee-
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(Business Wire: April 10, 2000, 09:21 AM)
Passcall And Jacada Partner to Deliver Enterprise
can anyone point me to a real-world application or website that actually uses Java? I mean properly, not just a tiny applet showing the time or something.
Off the top of my head, let me see Mail.com uses Java to serve its pages. Does Oracle's new Enterprise database count?
And from Sun's page of industry news, we have companies like RSA, Oracle, Netcom, SAAB, Delta Air etc. using Java in mission critical situations on a daily basis.
Posts like this make me wonder about who composes slashdot's readership. Because only script kiddies and so-called web developers (HTML and javascript kiddies) use Java as a web app language. Also no one in his right mind uses Java for GUI development if the application has any degree of complexity. But as a middleware development language it is practically untouchable. When it comes to speed of development, maintainability and expandability for business applications few things beat Java. Add a native GUI or web interface depending on your application and a rock solid app has been created.
PS: Myth dispel mode Oh yeah, by the way Java pages are faster or at the very least as fast as CGI, it has to do with being memory resident a la the VM as opposed to being read from disk. Here's a benchmark and a link or two.
You're probably an MSCE aren't you?
Java is an amazingly easy language and has great in support with the online API and the online tutorial that explain every aspect of the language. Last fall, I had no prior knowledge of Java and was an intermediate C++ programmer. With the above links as my primary guides I am now an excellent Java developer.
In fact, at the start of my spring break I wanted to create an online survey with the data stored in an Oracle database. With no prior knowledge of JDBC or servlets I created my survey within 3 days (most of which was spent configuring, java web servlet engines & battling the fact that Oracle doesn't support jdk 1.2).
My point is this, languages change and mature all the time. C today is not C of 20 years ago. C++ has changed enough in the last decade that a large number of developers in industry are mystified by several aspects of the language (STL? exception handling? namespaces?). Java is a mere 5 years old and to believe the language will not evolve further before stabilizing is wishful thinking. But at least in Java's case clicking a few webpages on Sun's webpage bring you up to speed rapidly.
PS: The MSCE crack is not a flame but a genuine question. I have noticed that MSCE's unlike computer science majors believe that once one learns something that's all they have to know. I guess it comes from getting certification after taking a few exams while CS majors usually use several languages in school and also since they spend 4 years in school usually see how languages change/mature before they get into the real world.
PPS: You actually have Swing as an item in your resume? Interesting.
One of the classes I took last semester had such an application but it was rather simple (not very complex UML diagrams). I planned to hack at it but never found a good book on UML so I never did. Here's a link to the application for Windows, Macs, and *nix.
that way they will make some money off their products,
This is the idea I originally had until I remembered that even at $199 the I-opener is a loss leader. The netpliance originally cost $300 as can be seen at the bottom of this article and in this article it states they upped the price to $300 after using $199 as an intro price. The current price of $99 is a promotion and is not a price the company will be able to maintain for the long term.
Secondly 1 year of service costs $250 ($21.50 * 12) which is about a $100 of profit per year. A more suitable and realistic plan would probably be
- 3. sell the I-opener at $450 to those who sign up for at least 2 years of service. (Total customer expenditure - $450)
PS: We all know that being a loss leader never works out, after all look at what happened to CDNow.I'd really love to be able to take a gander at whatever translation table Ask Jesus uses. By trying it out on my homepage I noticed the following interesting substitutions.
Web -> Tower of babel
Clubs -> Secret Houses of worship
data -> inscrutable numbers
college -> hell on earth
school -> purgatory
business -> slave-trade