It sounds more like the lawyer is drumming up business for herself by writing an initial contract which has to be sent back. If the lawyer was really looking out for your interests, they would draw up a reasonable contract in the first place.
They are asking users to subscribe to an online mall, thus becoming unwitting members of a massive corporate focus group. A real economy should be based on the creation of value - not hanging out and buying virtual Levi's with actual money.
If you want to see an economy in an online world where the users build, texture, script, and sell each other objects, check out Second Life.
Last year, as previously reported, a bill was introduced to Congress that originally was designed to address the hologram issue. But it morphed into something that would make it a federal felony for people to try and trick devices into playing their own music or running their own computer programs.
Read that again - federal felony for... playing their own music or running their own computer programs.
Maybe it's time you considered switching to business associates that did not threaten you. How much of your time is wasted on this issue? How much is that time worth to you?
An interesting side issue to this - how much of your code is engineering, and how much is art? Certainly, the professor that gives you lower marks for crufty code feels that a significant part of your work is art. However, I've also met profs that grade on pure engineering merit - does the code compile and does the code generate correct output on the sample data set they have.
Also, if charging $15 is so evil, how come every band I see selling CDs at their shows charges $10-15? Do you yell at them for "exorbitant" markup?
Easy to knock down a straw man, isn't it? Last time I went to a show where CDs were available, one band was giving them away and the other was selling them for $8. Ignoring the freebies, $8 vs. $13.99 - the price of the last new major label CD I purchased - reveals a 75% markup. Considering that the major label is getting bulk discounts on manufacturing and distribution, (they don't buy 1000 CDs for $1000, and don't ship them in the back of the bassist's station wagon) they would make a greater profit margin at $8/cd than your average local music act.
You've never really programmed an online game have you? There are reasons to have a trusted client, but your examples are poor choices.
I do not know what 'stealh' mode is on the viewer, but if you can get away with not sending information down the wire, by all means do it. Network bandwidth consumption can be a huge gating factor in playability.
Next, all decisions must come from the server. Outside of just a handful of cases, you do not want 10000 clients simultaneously deciding what the AI should be doing. State decisions and updates have to happen on the server. The client is just another input device.
+5 insightful??!??!?! On anecdotal evidence? Give me a break. Did the moderators responsible for this also rate the anecdotal information about w2k crashing as insightful? Since when did moderation become a win vs. linux popularity contest?
For more anecdotal evidence, my w2k box is mostly stable. I get a major system failure about once every 3-4 weeks. Not bad, but nowhere near the uptime I get with linux. With my home server, uptime measures how long the electric company has been providing continuous service. My evidence may be informative, but not very new to anyone who's used w2k and linux for any serious work.
I've been searching for this article, hoping that somewhere, someone had reprinted it. When this first article came out, I printed the maxims and put them on the wall next to my ST. After years of experience, I've leared that maxim 10 is wrong for my work; however, most of the sagely advice still applies today. Brief synopsis of David Small's voodoo computing:
When you're having a bad day, stop working.
Comment your code to death.
"Programming is an art best learned by apprenticing to a master. Or "Steal from the best." (Quote attributed to Russell Smith.)
Use the best tools, and be willing to pay for them as necessary. Your time is valuable, and it is a pleasure to use good tools.
Keep a copy of everything you do-disks and printouts. Put it somewhere, file it away but keep it. You will always come back to it.
Backup your backups. Keep three of everything.
Frame this; hang it over your desk: Don't be clever.
If it works, don't fix it.
Always give your code the maximum chance to work. Or: It'll always think of something you don't.
Structured programming is useless in the real world. You don't need to program in a structured way. Give yourself some credit. You're neither a moron nor a menace to society. Don't use a language that forces structure on you.
My mom has been running Debian for almost two years, and aside from a few calls early on of the "how do I do X under Linux" type, I haven't had to field any calls at all (none within the last year. None).
Bertelsman bought myplay on May 30th, 2001. Fast forward to early 2002, Bertelsman closed myplay's offices, laying off all but a couple of engineers in charge of wharehousing the software.
Is this some new tactic to buy and close music software companies?
I hope you're happy; I'm sure Bill Gates is delighted by how savagely you treat your own.
Bill Gates founded a company based on monopolistically destroying all competition. "Buy or Bury" has been the motto of Microsoft for a long time - a lot more savage attitutude than the zeitgeist of the open source movement.
We use opengl at my work, and our base platform is built around the geforce2. We've had some sticky issues from time to time where the nv drivers crash - but every time they've been tracked to our own bad data being sent to the card. In a better world, their drivers wouldn't crash on bad data. At least the crash only kills the app - not the system.
'Not for individual resale' laws only apply to entities with a business resale license.
For example, if I buy a 'bundled' shampoo and conditioner, I am free to sell either one to anyone. However, if you are a business and buy a box of 'bundled' shampoo and conditioner not intended for individual relsale (such as you might find at costco or sam's club) you can't lawfully break the units.
Though I'm a server jockey, and working on mostly server apps that are deployed on linux, I am currently being forced to use W2K at my office for development, which are then ported to linux for deployment.
Screwy engineering process, but one I've learned to cope with because other developers have felt our pain, and made life better for everyone by porting the best of the open source tools.
I use Cygwin for most of my CLI tools.
It provides a bash prompt and an incredibly useful set of tools such as grep, find, diff, ssh, tar, gzip, autoconf, automake, make, gcc and others.
Beyond that, many other useful tools have been ported or are easy to port because of the services provided by cygwin.
I have had problems getting cvs to work correctly.
I have also had problems getting emacs to look correct in the console window.
I also use emacs for all of my text editing and devlopment needs.
Not only does it give you a powerful development environment in conjunction with visual c++, it can also be hooked into cygwin.
I tried VisEmacs and didn't like it (YMMV) as much as simply setting the proper environment variables and churning out programs with emacs 'compile' set to run nmake.
Most of my library is a few good timeless books and a lot of specific knowledge which goes out of date within a few years.
I suggest Focusing on the books which don't rely on a specific language or a specific knowledge domain.
My personal library is mostly about engineering, so a few choice titles are probably absent.
Design Patterns - Gamma, Helm, Johnson, and Vlissides teaches its reader the language of software engineering.
The Practice of Programming - Kernighan and Pike teaches its reader how to think like a programmer.
The Cathedral and The Bazaar - Eric S. Raymond teaches its reader about free software.
Constructing the User Interface with Statecharts - Ian Horrocks teaches its reader how to engineer a functional UI.
Code Complete - Steve McConnell teaches its reader how to construct large software projects.
Software Project Survival Guide - Steve McConnell teaches its reader how to successfully build large software projects.
And to really show that software is speech, include a CD of GNU software.
Effective C++ by Scott Meyers is a nice tome to remind you of the basic dos and don'ts of c++. More Effective C++ is worth having but not nearly as useful. The two are also available as a box set with a searchable CD (maybe windows only for searching...)
For those of you who took the time to read the tech law journal artical, you probably also saw the introduction of the location privacy bill from Sen. John Edwards. I find this equally interesting news for nerds given the typical slashdotter paranoia.
Under the bill, "any company that monitors consumers' physical location will be prohibited from using or disclosing that information without express permission from the consumer. And third parties that gain access to the information cannot use or disclose it without the individual's permission first."
Slashdot Mirror
The site is not IE only. I have browsed the linde sites with moz win32 and linux, as well as galeon.
Also, the application back end is runs on linux.
It sounds more like the lawyer is drumming up business for herself by writing an initial contract which has to be sent back. If the lawyer was really looking out for your interests, they would draw up a reasonable contract in the first place.
Testify brother!
They are asking users to subscribe to an online mall, thus becoming unwitting members of a massive corporate focus group. A real economy should be based on the creation of value - not hanging out and buying virtual Levi's with actual money.
If you want to see an economy in an online world where the users build, texture, script, and sell each other objects, check out Second Life.
Read that again - federal felony for
I sense much NT in you.
NT leads to Blue Screen.
Blue Screen leads to downtime.
Downtime leads to suffering.
NT is the path to the darkside.
- Unknown Unix Jedi
Maybe it's time you considered switching to business associates that did not threaten you. How much of your time is wasted on this issue? How much is that time worth to you?
An interesting side issue to this - how much of your code is engineering, and how much is art? Certainly, the professor that gives you lower marks for crufty code feels that a significant part of your work is art. However, I've also met profs that grade on pure engineering merit - does the code compile and does the code generate correct output on the sample data set they have.
Easy to knock down a straw man, isn't it? Last time I went to a show where CDs were available, one band was giving them away and the other was selling them for $8. Ignoring the freebies, $8 vs. $13.99 - the price of the last new major label CD I purchased - reveals a 75% markup. Considering that the major label is getting bulk discounts on manufacturing and distribution, (they don't buy 1000 CDs for $1000, and don't ship them in the back of the bassist's station wagon) they would make a greater profit margin at $8/cd than your average local music act.
You've never really programmed an online game have you? There are reasons to have a trusted client, but your examples are poor choices.
I do not know what 'stealh' mode is on the viewer, but if you can get away with not sending information down the wire, by all means do it. Network bandwidth consumption can be a huge gating factor in playability.
Next, all decisions must come from the server. Outside of just a handful of cases, you do not want 10000 clients simultaneously deciding what the AI should be doing. State decisions and updates have to happen on the server. The client is just another input device.
Not anymore. You've been fired for reading slashdot on work time.
- Your boss
+5 insightful??!??!?! On anecdotal evidence? Give me a break. Did the moderators responsible for this also rate the anecdotal information about w2k crashing as insightful? Since when did moderation become a win vs. linux popularity contest?
For more anecdotal evidence, my w2k box is mostly stable. I get a major system failure about once every 3-4 weeks. Not bad, but nowhere near the uptime I get with linux. With my home server, uptime measures how long the electric company has been providing continuous service. My evidence may be informative, but not very new to anyone who's used w2k and linux for any serious work.
I've been searching for this article, hoping that somewhere, someone had reprinted it. When this first article came out, I printed the maxims and put them on the wall next to my ST. After years of experience, I've leared that maxim 10 is wrong for my work; however, most of the sagely advice still applies today. Brief synopsis of David Small's voodoo computing:
Simple solution: don't read slashdot. Go away.
Tell her to RTFM.
Bertelsman bought myplay on May 30th, 2001. Fast forward to early 2002, Bertelsman closed myplay's offices, laying off all but a couple of engineers in charge of wharehousing the software.
Is this some new tactic to buy and close music software companies?
Bill Gates founded a company based on monopolistically destroying all competition. "Buy or Bury" has been the motto of Microsoft for a long time - a lot more savage attitutude than the zeitgeist of the open source movement.
We use opengl at my work, and our base platform is built around the geforce2. We've had some sticky issues from time to time where the nv drivers crash - but every time they've been tracked to our own bad data being sent to the card. In a better world, their drivers wouldn't crash on bad data. At least the crash only kills the app - not the system.
freinds don't let freinds quote MS propaganda
Simply put a 'text' file on MSN which is actually the patch. Users don't even have to know they've been patched.
(Which makes me wonder, was this security hole left in to allow the installation of magic lantern and similar software...)
'Not for individual resale' laws only apply to entities with a business resale license.
For example, if I buy a 'bundled' shampoo and conditioner, I am free to sell either one to anyone. However, if you are a business and buy a box of 'bundled' shampoo and conditioner not intended for individual relsale (such as you might find at costco or sam's club) you can't lawfully break the units.
is here
slashcode seems to be putting an extraneous space in the url if it isn't in an href.
Though I'm a server jockey, and working on mostly server apps that are deployed on linux, I am currently being forced to use W2K at my office for development, which are then ported to linux for deployment. Screwy engineering process, but one I've learned to cope with because other developers have felt our pain, and made life better for everyone by porting the best of the open source tools.
I use Cygwin for most of my CLI tools. It provides a bash prompt and an incredibly useful set of tools such as grep, find, diff, ssh, tar, gzip, autoconf, automake, make, gcc and others. Beyond that, many other useful tools have been ported or are easy to port because of the services provided by cygwin. I have had problems getting cvs to work correctly. I have also had problems getting emacs to look correct in the console window.
I also use emacs for all of my text editing and devlopment needs. Not only does it give you a powerful development environment in conjunction with visual c++, it can also be hooked into cygwin. I tried VisEmacs and didn't like it (YMMV) as much as simply setting the proper environment variables and churning out programs with emacs 'compile' set to run nmake.
Most of my library is a few good timeless books and a lot of specific knowledge which goes out of date within a few years. I suggest Focusing on the books which don't rely on a specific language or a specific knowledge domain. My personal library is mostly about engineering, so a few choice titles are probably absent.
And to really show that software is speech, include a CD of GNU software.
Effective C++ by Scott Meyers is a nice tome to remind you of the basic dos and don'ts of c++. More Effective C++ is worth having but not nearly as useful. The two are also available as a box set with a searchable CD (maybe windows only for searching...)
For those of you who took the time to read the tech law journal artical, you probably also saw the introduction of the location privacy bill from Sen. John Edwards. I find this equally interesting news for nerds given the typical slashdotter paranoia.
Under the bill, "any company that monitors consumers' physical location will be prohibited from using or disclosing that information without express permission from the consumer. And third parties that gain access to the information cannot use or disclose it without the individual's permission first."