If you've got a big enough shop, the fastest solution is to get a consultant from each company on site. They don't have to be rocket scientists, but if they get the idea that they have to work together as a team, they will. Of course, this doesn't work at a small company - there, your best chance is to get someone from one company (either one of the vendors or a large consulting company) on site, and make it contractually their problem to keep your site going.
You are mixing up copyright and the first amendment. The first amendment has nothing to do with art or poetry in particular - it is there to prevent restraint on your other rights and beliefs by restricting speech about them. Many things that are protected by the first amendment have nothing to do with art or poetry - political expression for one, philosophical and religious expression for another. The whole point of the first amendment is that if you outlaw any expression between two people, you have to have a reliable system for judging the import and goodness of that expression - something that requires you to accept axioms that limit your other freedoms.
Now the obligatory rant - Trying to outlaw expression because it is too utilitarian makes a judgement about that code. Would you say that: int F = m * a; is not protected? Well then, what about the first chapter of a physics text? What about a biography about a physicist? What about a program that prints the biography of a physicist? How about a book about programming? Where is the line? Do you trust anyone - Judge Kaplan, Emmanuel Goldstein, CmdrTaco, me - to determine where that line is?
The reason that Congress shall make NO law limiting expression, is because that line can't be drawn in a way that someone can't attack. If you claim that C++ isn't protected speech, but HTML is, I'll ask about HTML pages containing C++. Is my slashdot discussion free speech? At some point, it is reduced to an SQL statement - if that SQL isn't protected speech, how can my rantings and ravings be protected speech. Later, it becomes HTML.
Coding may not be poetry (except in certain cases, with Perl), but it is certainly a way of relating information between individuals. If writing a book on how to commit suicide - certainly a work consisting of instructions, with no apparent art or poetic value in my opinion - is protected expression, then my rants and raves had better be, as well. End of rant...
I'll second this. One of my first jobs was at a large telecom company, which was doing a 6TB database (back when that was a lot). They tried various storage solutions, but nothing worked well. They finally settled on EMC, and their problems went away... At my last job, we had 15 boxes, each box sharing about 1.5 tb of storage, all on EMC. The boxes went down often - the EMC only had one problem, and the EMC box used a spare phone line to call EMC and ask for help before the problem became critical. The problem is, EMC is expensive. I don't think you can get anything from them for under six digits, and I'd be surprised if it was much under seven.
At the risk of saying "me, too." - uhh, me, too. I had heard good things about this movie before going -- enough, in fact, to lead me to believe that it might not totally suck, as I would have expected from a Marvel movie. Instead, I was shocked to find that it didn't suck at all. I'd give it 3 out of 4 stars overall, or (given my low expectations) 4 out of 4 in the genre of "comic book-based action movies." My biggest fear going in was that it would try to develop every character - especially the ones, like Angel and Beast, that did OK in the comics, but really wouldn't translate that well to the big screen. Sure, they didn't develop anyone in too much depth, but they got everyone familiar with who they are. My personal hope for the next movie - Focus on one character. I don't care which, although its set up to be Wolvie as Weapon X. My personal fear for the next movie - Wolvie's headed to Canada. I just hope he doesn't run into Alpha Flight...
Chalk another one up to the "only one who laughed at this scene" column. Most people who weren't following the pre-movie hype didn't know that Toad and Darth Maul were one and the same character (and visually, you can hardly blame them). Umm... the same actor, I hope.
Close -- FASA Interactive DID come out with a game for the SNES, which bombed. Then, FASA Interactive (also the owner of the Mechwarrior license for electronic games) was bought by Microsoft.
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I'd be interested in donating to this, if someone will take lead. Now, we just have to figure out how to market it...
I have to agree that this is a little extreme. Remember a few years ago, when Oregon's similar law was used against Randal Schwartz? (Co-author of the Camel book). If you violate a non-disclosure agreement or confidentiality agreement, there are already a ton of civil penalties that can be applied -- we don't need to add criminal ones, too. I look at this as just another shade of the DMCA, the trademark laws, or the recent secret search warrant laws - they give the state and large companies more weapons to attack individual developers with, another crime that no average juror could be expected to understand well enough to vote on.
As Michael points out, this behavior is exactly what should interest the forces that are right now deciding on Microsoft's future. How do we let them know? Alternately, is this something the mainstream press would be at all interested in?
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If you've got a big enough shop, the fastest solution is to get a consultant from each company on site. They don't have to be rocket scientists, but if they get the idea that they have to work together as a team, they will. Of course, this doesn't work at a small company - there, your best chance is to get someone from one company (either one of the vendors or a large consulting company) on site, and make it contractually their problem to keep your site going.
Now the obligatory rant -
Trying to outlaw expression because it is too utilitarian makes a judgement about that code. Would you say that:
int F = m * a;
is not protected? Well then, what about the first chapter of a physics text? What about a biography about a physicist? What about a program that prints the biography of a physicist? How about a book about programming? Where is the line? Do you trust anyone - Judge Kaplan, Emmanuel Goldstein, CmdrTaco, me - to determine where that line is?
The reason that Congress shall make NO law limiting expression, is because that line can't be drawn in a way that someone can't attack. If you claim that C++ isn't protected speech, but HTML is, I'll ask about HTML pages containing C++. Is my slashdot discussion free speech? At some point, it is reduced to an SQL statement - if that SQL isn't protected speech, how can my rantings and ravings be protected speech. Later, it becomes HTML.
Coding may not be poetry (except in certain cases, with Perl), but it is certainly a way of relating information between individuals. If writing a book on how to commit suicide - certainly a work consisting of instructions, with no apparent art or poetic value in my opinion - is protected expression, then my rants and raves had better be, as well.
End of rant...
I'll second this. One of my first jobs was at a large telecom company, which was doing a 6TB database (back when that was a lot). They tried various storage solutions, but nothing worked well. They finally settled on EMC, and their problems went away... At my last job, we had 15 boxes, each box sharing about 1.5 tb of storage, all on EMC. The boxes went down often - the EMC only had one problem, and the EMC box used a spare phone line to call EMC and ask for help before the problem became critical. The problem is, EMC is expensive. I don't think you can get anything from them for under six digits, and I'd be surprised if it was much under seven.
Dude, the EFF is paying for the defense attorney. Of course their report is positive!
At the risk of saying "me, too." - uhh, me, too.
I had heard good things about this movie before going -- enough, in fact, to lead me to believe that it might not totally suck, as I would have expected from a Marvel movie.
Instead, I was shocked to find that it didn't suck at all. I'd give it 3 out of 4 stars overall, or (given my low expectations) 4 out of 4 in the genre of "comic book-based action movies."
My biggest fear going in was that it would try to develop every character - especially the ones, like Angel and Beast, that did OK in the comics, but really wouldn't translate that well to the big screen. Sure, they didn't develop anyone in too much depth, but they got everyone familiar with who they are.
My personal hope for the next movie - Focus on one character. I don't care which, although its set up to be Wolvie as Weapon X.
My personal fear for the next movie - Wolvie's headed to Canada. I just hope he doesn't run into Alpha Flight...
Chalk another one up to the "only one who laughed at this scene" column. Most people who weren't following the pre-movie hype didn't know that Toad and Darth Maul were one and the same character (and visually, you can hardly blame them). Umm... the same actor, I hope.
Close -- FASA Interactive DID come out with a game for the SNES, which bombed. Then, FASA Interactive (also the owner of the Mechwarrior license for electronic games) was bought by Microsoft.
I'd be interested in donating to this, if someone will take lead. Now, we just have to figure out how to market it...
The petitions should be under "Most Recent Petitions" for at least a little while...
I have to agree that this is a little extreme. Remember a few years ago, when Oregon's similar law was used against Randal Schwartz? (Co-author of the Camel book). If you violate a non-disclosure agreement or confidentiality agreement, there are already a ton of civil penalties that can be applied -- we don't need to add criminal ones, too. I look at this as just another shade of the DMCA, the trademark laws, or the recent secret search warrant laws - they give the state and large companies more weapons to attack individual developers with, another crime that no average juror could be expected to understand well enough to vote on.
As Michael points out, this behavior is exactly what should interest the forces that are right now deciding on Microsoft's future. How do we let them know? Alternately, is this something the mainstream press would be at all interested in?