Of course it never occured to you that the actors after reading the script said, "I'm being paid xx millions for this pile of crap?", and then acted the roles as if they where thinking of ways of spending their money?
Assuming that the function of the code does not change often then I really see your project being more of adding a locationization modual and making sure that the data entered validates before hitting the DB (formating too), and that the querries return the data in the local format.
I would personally have the local programmers sit down and do the following: Build a branch of the source code for you. Translate all strings and comments into English. Then you will have to: Comment the code with your own thoughts as you run it in debugger mode. Watch everything and see how the program should and should not be used. After wakarimasu (lit. understand, but more like eruka!), make your changes.
Not entirely true- laywers in GPL cases will research past cases and see that all the others have been settled, with the SCO case being the expection to the rule. After taking a long hard look at the "One smoking crater" the SCO case has been so far, I think the wise laywer will ever so strongly recommend that they too settle and be done with it. Better a slap on the wrist with a settlement than being HBS case study in self destruction.
No, some just take you out back and put a bullet in your head just for the hell of it.
Now let's say that the AC posting this story lives in an enlighted country, he will end up in front of a judge and jurry here before long. You don't screw around with investigations.
A big honking emulator with state saving in a memory buffer. I'm sure they've already accounted for recursive loops and interactions, just they've improved the ability to load / save states.
When the film breaks, it can be fixed- for the most part. But when a drive crashes, you'd think that it would be at least 8 hours before a new copy of the move could be express-shipped to the theater.
In giving my example I used an extream to illustraight my point- that with NDAs and Trade Scerects, a company can abuse the court system to control what information is disclosed.
If Apple Computer is successful with forcing the ISPs in turning over email records, other companies will use that case law in their briefs to gather information about their leaks, which may not be nearly as innocent as Apple's case. Whistle Blowers only get that protection under the law when it is given to the government, not the press. The press is there to pressure the government into acting.
Here is my problem with NDAs and disclosing to the press. It also has a chilling effect on whistle blowers.
Here an example: Let's say I work for a company that has just developed a new process for dealing with hazardous waste, except it doesn't really work. In fact it can't, but those in charge with much to lose rather push forward than deal with the fall out. So the company drills a very deep hole into the ground and dumps a toxic slury down it. Right into the water table. People are going to have wells that draw on this water, drink it, and die in a very horrible way.
Of course I've signed NDAs and all the paper work reguarding this is marked 'Trade Secret' in nice big red bold letters. Now if I forward this stuff over to 60 Minutes or 20/20 or any other press member, now not only can a company go after the Washington Post, which it wouldn't because they have lawyers who aren't going to fully roll over, but after my ISP and short curret the whole process, find out who leaked, and either (1) set the person up as a fall guy, (2) completely discredit them, (3) ruin their life forever for doing the right thing.
Don't think this can happen? Go watch China Syndrom (a true story). Spoiler: They killed the whistle blower.
On the flip side of not revealing sources, see the 'Plunder Dome' case in Rhode Island- where one of the defendant's attorney leaked the video tapes of his client to TV as a way to posion the jurry pool.
Screwed up...
Research is published and reviewed- so people know what is going on in the medical field, and know what drugs are being tried and how those drugs work. And if these smart people think that some company is pulling their punches, so to speak, then all hell will break out.
Allow me to get a shovel, cause it's getting rather deep with the dung here.
Just so you know where I stand: I work in Health Insurance, I own stocks in pharama, and have many, many friends who work in research. On top of that, my mother has lung cancer and most likely will be dead in 6 months.
Now Yoga, which is wonderful- as an exersise and life style, does keep you health. So does eating right, taking walks, not smoking (or stopping), taking plenty of water. These things will help your body stay health.
These things will not cure cancer, HIV/AIDS, the common cold, flu, cure diabetes, etc.
And to even think that pharma industry wouldn't develop cures is just plain nuts. HMOs wouldn't allow it, other pharmas wouldn't allow it, FDA wouldn't allow it, Congress wouldn't allow it. If some company develops a cure for Shingles, you'd better believe that they'd take it to the market, because if they've figure it out, someone else can figure it out, and it will come to the market.
Research is published and reviewed- so people know what is going on in the medical field, and know what drugs are being tried and how those drugs work. And if these smart people think that some company is pulling their punches, so to speak,
Your sig is correct- a closed mind certainly doesn't gather wisdom. Please learn to think things out and look at it from all angle before talking- otherwise you look like a complete idiot.
Please mod the parent as a Troll, Ignorant or Tin Foil Hat.
Please go on the records to state which medicians are only designed to ease trauma and not cure. (And don't you dare say 'diabetes' or the like, since those are a body's failure and are not currently cureable.)
Well I think you are making a mistake by looking at this at the service level- it's not and should not ever be view at that level- alway view things at 'does this make us money?' level. That is what a business is for- To Make Money.
As for who they would sell the list to? I could think of any number of companies that would love to buy this data- think marketing companies and ad firms. It's a demographer's wet dream. And yes, they do care about the trivia [1]. The fact that RIAA / MPAA would like it too is a side effect.
Now if they where really, really, really smart about the data mining side, they would have created a completely independant company that contracted to collect the data mining portion, to some server located somewhere completely safe from the legal issues. And it would've been one more road block for those who would sue.
[1] A side note: I used to work for a data mining company (formerly known as Epsilon Data Management), who would design ad campaign that targeted people at the street level, house level, number of pets level. God is in the details after all.
Just to point out that in the business world, there are no completely useless stats. I keep a DB at work called LDLS - Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics - which is used by every program that I write to track down all the little odds and ends that management wants to track. (They told me to create a metrics DB, I selected the name.)
On spelling, you can use a soundex function to reduce all to simular sounding groupings.
Collection of personal information like house number or telephone number- these can be mapped back to a phycial real-world location and then shown with other statitical information.
Try this out- to go Google and enter in your home phone number ( (xxx)-xxx-xxxx format ) and watch Google return your home address, and then be able to map near by businesses.
And since you can break things down by areas, and know what is being viewed / downloaded where, that information has value to others trying to sell stuff to you- Sherman networks knows that you liked SNL with Ashly Simpson- so in theory they could sell your name / address to companies that sell SNL videos and to record companies that produce crappy singers. Plus I'm sure Ms. Simpson would love to know that she's even more famous for just being famous.
I'll expand on this a bit: Work in dull fields of business: Banking, Insurance, and the like. They're dull because of the government regulations that they have to follow, but in return you usually get a good deal out of it: job security, decent pay & vacation, and fairly good co-workers. I work in health insurance. I started with _7_ weeks a year vacation time, plus a fairly hands off boss. Never been so productive in my life nor have I ever had a better job (good work too).
The Mini-Mac is the successor to the Apple Cube, which was about 5 years ahead of the curve.
Steve Jobs is simply refining the old standard- Small is beautiful.
Well said, but if you have the time to setup the communication methods in advanced, using something simple to commit to memory for everyone, then the most common items in the mail could be the message.
Case in point: Sending a postcard with a picture of a cat on it means one thing, a dog something else, a birthday card, etc. each having an instruction assigned to it. Taking such an item at it's face value would cause most police / agency to completely over look the value of such an item. Imagine a police raid of a safe house:
'What did you find officer?'
'Nothing' Meanwhile the fridge has a ton of postcards on it.
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Of course it never occured to you that the actors after reading the script said, "I'm being paid xx millions for this pile of crap?", and then acted the roles as if they where thinking of ways of spending their money?
No really. All 12 times that story was posted.
Oh well.
Nina Totenberg's coverage is the best out there of the USC
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Assuming that the function of the code does not change often then I really see your project being more of adding a locationization modual and making sure that the data entered validates before hitting the DB (formating too), and that the querries return the data in the local format.
I would personally have the local programmers sit down and do the following:
Build a branch of the source code for you.
Translate all strings and comments into English.
Then you will have to:
Comment the code with your own thoughts as you run it in debugger mode.
Watch everything and see how the program should and should not be used.
After wakarimasu (lit. understand, but more like eruka!), make your changes.
Good luck!
Not entirely true- laywers in GPL cases will research past cases and see that all the others have been settled, with the SCO case being the expection to the rule.
After taking a long hard look at the "One smoking crater" the SCO case has been so far, I think the wise laywer will ever so strongly recommend that they too settle and be done with it.
Better a slap on the wrist with a settlement than being HBS case study in self destruction.
No, some just take you out back and put a bullet in your head just for the hell of it.
Now let's say that the AC posting this story lives in an enlighted country, he will end up in front of a judge and jurry here before long. You don't screw around with investigations.
A big honking emulator with state saving in a memory buffer. I'm sure they've already accounted for recursive loops and interactions, just they've improved the ability to load / save states.
Don't the video game emulators already do this?
Simple, people will shop for the most sympathetic courts in the world. Hello 3rd world junita courts.
However - most courts will only take the case if one of the aggieved parties has a strong tie to the local community.
This is the one case where I really do hope the American laws prevail. (Sorry to everyone else)
You know, I too want the dupes to stop as much as the next person here, and I think I have a solution to this problem:
Buy some shares in OSTG (VA Linux: sym LNUX) and go to the next share holder's meeting and raise holy hell about it.
When the film breaks, it can be fixed- for the most part. But when a drive crashes, you'd think that it would be at least 8 hours before a new copy of the move could be express-shipped to the theater.
Only when I drink.
In giving my example I used an extream to illustraight my point- that with NDAs and Trade Scerects, a company can abuse the court system to control what information is disclosed.
If Apple Computer is successful with forcing the ISPs in turning over email records, other companies will use that case law in their briefs to gather information about their leaks, which may not be nearly as innocent as Apple's case.
Whistle Blowers only get that protection under the law when it is given to the government, not the press. The press is there to pressure the government into acting.
How will this case be used in the future?
Here is my problem with NDAs and disclosing to the press. It also has a chilling effect on whistle blowers.
Here an example:
Let's say I work for a company that has just developed a new process for dealing with hazardous waste, except it doesn't really work. In fact it can't, but those in charge with much to lose rather push forward than deal with the fall out.
So the company drills a very deep hole into the ground and dumps a toxic slury down it. Right into the water table. People are going to have wells that draw on this water, drink it, and die in a very horrible way.
Of course I've signed NDAs and all the paper work reguarding this is marked 'Trade Secret' in nice big red bold letters. Now if I forward this stuff over to 60 Minutes or 20/20 or any other press member, now not only can a company go after the Washington Post, which it wouldn't because they have lawyers who aren't going to fully roll over, but after my ISP and short curret the whole process, find out who leaked, and either (1) set the person up as a fall guy, (2) completely discredit them, (3) ruin their life forever for doing the right thing.
Don't think this can happen? Go watch China Syndrom (a true story). Spoiler: They killed the whistle blower.
On the flip side of not revealing sources, see the 'Plunder Dome' case in Rhode Island- where one of the defendant's attorney leaked the video tapes of his client to TV as a way to posion the jurry pool.
Screwed up... Research is published and reviewed- so people know what is going on in the medical field, and know what drugs are being tried and how those drugs work. And if these smart people think that some company is pulling their punches, so to speak, then all hell will break out.
Allow me to get a shovel, cause it's getting rather deep with the dung here.
Just so you know where I stand:
I work in Health Insurance, I own stocks in pharama, and have many, many friends who work in research. On top of that, my mother has lung cancer and most likely will be dead in 6 months.
Now Yoga, which is wonderful- as an exersise and life style, does keep you health. So does eating right, taking walks, not smoking (or stopping), taking plenty of water. These things will help your body stay health.
These things will not cure cancer, HIV/AIDS, the common cold, flu, cure diabetes, etc.
And to even think that pharma industry wouldn't develop cures is just plain nuts. HMOs wouldn't allow it, other pharmas wouldn't allow it, FDA wouldn't allow it, Congress wouldn't allow it.
If some company develops a cure for Shingles, you'd better believe that they'd take it to the market, because if they've figure it out, someone else can figure it out, and it will come to the market.
Research is published and reviewed- so people know what is going on in the medical field, and know what drugs are being tried and how those drugs work. And if these smart people think that some company is pulling their punches, so to speak,
Your sig is correct- a closed mind certainly doesn't gather wisdom. Please learn to think things out and look at it from all angle before talking- otherwise you look like a complete idiot.
Please mod the parent as a Troll, Ignorant or Tin Foil Hat.
Please go on the records to state which medicians are only designed to ease trauma and not cure.
(And don't you dare say 'diabetes' or the like, since those are a body's failure and are not currently cureable.)
Yes and No.
Yes- for the bubble gum pop that bombards us every day from TW and the like. Who cares about that music? No one over the age of 14.
No- for the true artist, where the whole album take the listener though a journey. Think Abby Road, Smile, etc.
won.
$50 million in the bank (from SCO) and they don't even have to go to court to defend what they had to have known as being undefendable. Lovely.
Well I think you are making a mistake by looking at this at the service level- it's not and should not ever be view at that level- alway view things at 'does this make us money?' level. That is what a business is for- To Make Money.
As for who they would sell the list to? I could think of any number of companies that would love to buy this data- think marketing companies and ad firms. It's a demographer's wet dream. And yes, they do care about the trivia [1].
The fact that RIAA / MPAA would like it too is a side effect.
Now if they where really, really, really smart about the data mining side, they would have created a completely independant company that contracted to collect the data mining portion, to some server located somewhere completely safe from the legal issues. And it would've been one more road block for those who would sue.
[1] A side note: I used to work for a data mining company (formerly known as Epsilon Data Management), who would design ad campaign that targeted people at the street level, house level, number of pets level. God is in the details after all.
Just to point out that in the business world, there are no completely useless stats. I keep a DB at work called LDLS - Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics - which is used by every program that I write to track down all the little odds and ends that management wants to track. (They told me to create a metrics DB, I selected the name.)
On spelling, you can use a soundex function to reduce all to simular sounding groupings.
Collection of personal information like house number or telephone number- these can be mapped back to a phycial real-world location and then shown with other statitical information.
Try this out- to go Google and enter in your home phone number ( (xxx)-xxx-xxxx format ) and watch Google return your home address, and then be able to map near by businesses.
And since you can break things down by areas, and know what is being viewed / downloaded where, that information has value to others trying to sell stuff to you- Sherman networks knows that you liked SNL with Ashly Simpson- so in theory they could sell your name / address to companies that sell SNL videos and to record companies that produce crappy singers. Plus I'm sure Ms. Simpson would love to know that she's even more famous for just being famous.
Go read up on data mining sometime.
DOD mandate.
And I work in the HMO world, but one of our customers does work for the DOD and thus we have to comply with the standard.
I work in Boston, MA.
I'll expand on this a bit:
Work in dull fields of business: Banking, Insurance, and the like.
They're dull because of the government regulations that they have to follow, but in return you usually get a good deal out of it: job security, decent pay & vacation, and fairly good co-workers.
I work in health insurance. I started with _7_ weeks a year vacation time, plus a fairly hands off boss. Never been so productive in my life nor have I ever had a better job (good work too).
The Mini-Mac is the successor to the Apple Cube, which was about 5 years ahead of the curve.
Steve Jobs is simply refining the old standard- Small is beautiful.
For once I don't think I'd get upset if Bill Gate's swarm of lawyers issued a take-down notice.
Well said, but if you have the time to setup the communication methods in advanced, using something simple to commit to memory for everyone, then the most common items in the mail could be the message.
Case in point:
Sending a postcard with a picture of a cat on it means one thing, a dog something else, a birthday card, etc. each having an instruction assigned to it.
Taking such an item at it's face value would cause most police / agency to completely over look the value of such an item.
Imagine a police raid of a safe house:
'What did you find officer?'
'Nothing'
Meanwhile the fridge has a ton of postcards on it.