I think this review says it all: "Quite simply, Programming Jabber rocks! When reviewing the book, I often found myself reading along, having a good time and getting excited about Jabber instead of looking to see if something was wrong or missing." --Jeremie Miller, Founder and Lead
Developer of Jabber
Don't forget that Shrek (and both Toy Story movies for that matter) was a great movie because it had a good script! If you just put out the same crap (*cough* FF *cough*), it will not
be successful.
1. Write a good script
2. Make it with good actors (LOTR) or CGI.
3. Make money.
It is really pretty simple.
"Cyber criminals are like idiot Hansel and Gretels, scattering electronic breadcrumbs that lead straight to them," said retired New York City detective Pete
Angonasta. "You just don't see this sort of behavior in other criminals. I've never seen a burglar leaving cute notes crediting the crime to himself. "
This detective must have never watched the old Batman shows.
it seems they've patented a concept called "directories" that lets you use a tree like structure to recursively subdivide your music files into different groups...
"You are likely to benefit from the university atmosphere, because it's a non-profit organization, thereby relieving your research of any major commercial motives."
Although universities are non-profit organizations, you should remember that there still is a strong incentive to make money. That is, the researchers would have more money to continue research and assure themselves of at least a meager income even during hard times.
They don't need to prove that each individual file is a copy of one of their songs. They are just going to tell Napster to get rid of these people. Napster in the past has appeared happy to do this, and they will probably do it again to ward off a lawsuit. However, I agree that this will do very little long-term good. As a former Metallica fan I do at least appreciate the appearence of an effort on their part. I see "protecting" their music as a legitimate venture, but bringing down all of Napster because a few people are getting their songs is unreasonable.
Re:nVidia has incentive to remain closed-source...
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"The corporate attitude is probably that stealing open-source code is okay." I wouldn't be surprised if that is one of the reasons they have a no open-source policy in place. It seems odd (but definitely good) that they quickly responded. Then again maybe they aren't quite as antagonistic as I am.:) or paranoid. . .
It is not an issue of whether or not they are a monopoly, because they do monopolize the desktop OS market and Judge Jackson wisely confirmed that. The issue is that they used that power to edge in on other markets, like web-browsers and the inhibition of Sun's "cross-platform" Java language. To me, the fact that they blatently changed the implementation of Java, in essence completely defeating one of the most useful aspects of Java (and most hyped), makes me furious. I have no experience with J++ but apparently the bytecode that compiles with their Java development tool may only be used on Windows. Like Visual C++, they altered the language to suit their on ends, even if a standard had been approved.
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I think this review says it all: "Quite simply, Programming Jabber rocks! When reviewing the book, I often found myself reading along, having a good time and getting excited about Jabber instead of looking to see if something was wrong or missing." --Jeremie Miller, Founder and Lead Developer of Jabber
No.
Don't forget that Shrek (and both Toy Story movies for that matter) was a great movie because it had a good script! If you just put out the same crap (*cough* FF *cough*), it will not be successful. 1. Write a good script 2. Make it with good actors (LOTR) or CGI. 3. Make money. It is really pretty simple.
Simple, but not easy.
"Cyber criminals are like idiot Hansel and Gretels, scattering electronic breadcrumbs that lead straight to them," said retired New York City detective Pete Angonasta. "You just don't see this sort of behavior in other criminals. I've never seen a burglar leaving cute notes crediting the crime to himself. "
This detective must have never watched the old Batman shows.
My understanding is that light bends as it goes through glass (in this case gravity) because it slows down. It just can't go over c.
Rather, in the case of this planet, we would be doomed 150 years from now. ;)
it seems they've patented a concept called "directories" that lets you use a tree like structure to recursively subdivide your music files into different groups...
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
just my $0.02. . .
Here is some more information about the artwork (NYTimes login required blah blah blah blah)
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/08/10/193122 1&mode=thread
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http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/08/02/18342
http://banjo.slashdot.org
Typically, I believe a movie has a framerate of 24 FPS. Therefore, 1 sec / 24 frames = 0.04166 SPF. Right?
It has top secret military uses. . . Saddham would love it!
Damn astroturfers. . .
Apparently, it is. (Wachowski)
Actually, I think it works out even better. This means if you are dumb as dirt (Knowledge ==> 0) your money will approach infinity. Thus, PHBs.
And Now For Something Completely Different. . .
It will give me another excuse to get drunk. . .but who really needs an excuse?
Flattery will get you nowhere. . .
"You are likely to benefit from the university atmosphere, because it's a non-profit organization, thereby relieving your research of any major commercial motives."
Although universities are non-profit organizations, you should remember that there still is a strong incentive to make money. That is, the researchers would have more money to continue research and assure themselves of at least a meager income even during hard times.
What a waste. . .
I may be wrong, but isn't Harp bottled by Guiness?
The Rolling Stone interview linked from the offspring's website (http://www.rollingstone.com/sections/news/text/ne wsarticle.asp?afl=&NewsID=1069 4&ArtistID=153) said that the reason they came out was that Wired pissed them off saying they were thinking about suing. Anyone see the Wired article about how The Offspring is ripping off Napster? http://www.wired.com/news/cu lture/0,1284,36733,00.html
They don't need to prove that each individual file is a copy of one of their songs. They are just going to tell Napster to get rid of these people. Napster in the past has appeared happy to do this, and they will probably do it again to ward off a lawsuit. However, I agree that this will do very little long-term good. As a former Metallica fan I do at least appreciate the appearence of an effort on their part. I see "protecting" their music as a legitimate venture, but bringing down all of Napster because a few people are getting their songs is unreasonable.
"The corporate attitude is probably that stealing open-source code is okay." I wouldn't be surprised if that is one of the reasons they have a no open-source policy in place. It seems odd (but definitely good) that they quickly responded. Then again maybe they aren't quite as antagonistic as I am. :) or paranoid. . .
It will be even more interesting if the MPAA doesn't do anything!
It is not an issue of whether or not they are a monopoly, because they do monopolize the desktop OS market and Judge Jackson wisely confirmed that. The issue is that they used that power to edge in on other markets, like web-browsers and the inhibition of Sun's "cross-platform" Java language. To me, the fact that they blatently changed the implementation of Java, in essence completely defeating one of the most useful aspects of Java (and most hyped), makes me furious. I have no experience with J++ but apparently the bytecode that compiles with their Java development tool may only be used on Windows. Like Visual C++, they altered the language to suit their on ends, even if a standard had been approved.