How dare you speak to me like that. After all, I am the original # 3, I just forgot my password. And I would like to point out that my current UID is only 6 digits smartypants!
So is mine, but it's a pretty big difference, eh?:P
Verbal agreements aside (which _may_ save your ass, talk to a lawyer) it seems to me you knowingly assigned the IP rights to someone else's code to your employer. IANAL, but I'd think any agreement you signed with them would override any supposed verbal agreement in a "he said, she said" situation. You may just find yourself in deep doo-doo.:(
Whatever you do, though, at least consult with a lawyer.
He tours around quite a bit, missed him a few times but finally caught him in Kansas City. Really interesting stuff. The bots not only play, but they do little skits and "interact" with the crowd. In KC, a noisy fan was rebuffed by the drumbot with, "Whatever, human heckler," while the guitarbot instructed Season to Risk (the headliners) to play a particular song or die.
If you're a geek, you should go just to see the cool instrument playing robots this guy has engineered. It's pretty neat shit.
"Whatever you want!" may not seem like a very good answer, but it is accurate. Get in the game and find some people who aren't pricks, and they should be willing to point you in a direction. The experience is entirely what you make it, unlike pretty much every other game, where the experience is entirely what the developers make it.
You want to fight other people? Mine asteroids? Ship goods around the galaxy and trade them? Run a corporation? Work for a corporation run by someone else? Build your own space station? Explore the vast unknown of space searching for rare and valuable minerals to sell?
And that ain't even all. The experience is entirely in the hands of the player. The tutorial doesn't even begin to touch everything you can do, because (I assume) 1) nobody wants to sit through a 29 hour tutorial, and 2) it's a lot more fun to figure it out for yourself. Some people are probably too impatient to enjoy this kind of experience, but even my most "twitch"-oriented friends who are in the beta love it. Surprised the hell outta me. Hrmph.
Let's take a simple example: digital audio tape (Dat). Get someone to compare Dat with a humble C90 compact cassette and they will find Dat to be technologically superior, especially for recording music. However, if you consider "the whole product", Dat is vastly inferior for most people most of the time. This is why people still buy millions of cassettes, while Dat has virtually disappeared from consumer use.
Er...I thought the RIAA effectively taxed DAT out of the reach of consumers? Dat is only inferior because it's so damn expensive.
Unless you're signed to a major label, in which case they advance you $100,000 - $1,000,000 and say, "here, we hooked you up with this producer (who is working for us) at our studio." So you take the money you have borrowed from the record company and use it to pay them for the producer and the studio time, and the post production, and the DAT and mastering, and the art and packaging, and duplication. By this point, unless you're a well-established artist (i.e. already rich) you are now permanently indebted to the label when your record tanks, which it will, and they write the whole thing off as a failed business venture then sue you for the advance.
Or you could spend a couple hundred or a thousand bucks on a mixing board and some kind of recording device (or just use your damn computer) and make a record that sounds just as good. Sure, it might not be ULTRA RICK RUBIN SLICK but nobody is going to notice except assholes anyway.
Obviously you're not a gamer. Hell, I'm not a gamer and my slowest machine has dual Celerys @ 500. All the machines older than that have found new homes at non-geek friends houses and charities. I used to keep that crap around, but what's the point? If I wanted a room filled up with 20MB hard drives and 256K ISA video cards I'd call up Microsoft and tell them I was a school looking for a donation.
Anyway, nobody who had more brains than money would buy the machine being reviewed. Of course, that doesn't mean they have to "justify having that much power." "Because I want it," is more justification than is required.
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A joke like "smoking crack" is funny to many people. But it will not be funny to every person.
OH CRAP! I guess we better say "orally inhaling the fumes of rock cocaine, possibly through a glass pipe" instead. Meh. Give it a rest. Throw that utopian PC bullshit out the window, it has no place in reality. This isn't an "official superspecial Linux document for the megacorp executive's eyes only", it's a piece by an OSS guy for the OSS community. Get over it.
Morons. Can't live with them, can't run around chopping their heads off with a giant axe.
I'm not trying to troll here, but I never did quite understand punk. What is the purpose?
Being a (more or less) grown up punk, I feel I can say with authority that the purpose of suburban punk is to give kids a cultural alternative. Great, yay, more power to them, they can buy blink 182 records and spank it to gwen stefani posters. For me at least, the "mainstream punk" of the time (Nirvana, et al) led into a broad appreciation of everything from GG Allin to Frank Zappa. But that's just the music part, of course. I adopted a lot of values from the music that made sense to me. I might have cared whether my green liberty spikes were high enough when I was 16, but I certainly wouldn't now. I don't even bother to comb my hair anymore. I just can't force myself to give a shit what a bunch of dead cells growing out the top of my head looks like. Clothes? Who gives a shit. If it's under $5.00 it's got my name on it, as long as it properly conceals whatever part of my body culture dictates must be concealed from public view. I spend most of my money that doesn't go to rent or food on computer hardware and musical equipment...things that assist me in creative endeavors. I desperately want to get rid of the burden of a car, although this city makes that infeasible, so I may have to move (although, as a voting Libertarian, I'm also considering running for office to make changes).
I credit punk with planting the seeds of self-reliance, government/authority distrust, "I don't give a fuck"-ness, and thrift in my head as a kid. A lot of people apparently have none of these, although the/. crowd seems fairly liberal in that regard. Whether you like punk music or not (and I happen to) you probably are more in line with punk philosophy than you realize, even if you're to afraid to actually do it.
You'd be surprised how easy it is to get people to take you seriously, no matter what you look like, when you know how to get shit done.
Those questions are terrible. If I were the interviewee, I'd probably send them back with a note like, "uh...get real." Darwin Awards? Dr. Strangelove? Yeah, that's the HARD-HITTING stuff there, guys. Way to go. Next, why don't you lecture us about the state of amateur rocketry in post-Columbine, post-9/11 America?
Not everybody cares about the pop culture to which many of you cling, and indeed some of us actively despise and avoid it whenever possible. You are not cute, hip, or funny.
If that weren't bad enough, now I have to sit and watch a bunch of backseat undergraduate engineers naysaying this highly motivated and dedicated individual who is actually doing something! Hey, well, if you don't think he will make it then cool. You are welcome to try and prove his task impossible by throwing numbers and formulas around that you have a marginal understanding of, but that doesn't make his success any less likely. He may not be an engineer, and I know that the engineer's ego is a large and dangerous creature, but please...he's doing something cool and fascinating and intriguing. You're not. Deal with it in some other way than with judgement values and boringly predictable jealous criticism.
I dunno who told these jokers that ECS make underperforming boards, but it's a lie. It is true that they don't have some of the more popular overclocking features, but for stability and performance their boards are up there with the "big boys" at often less than half the price. I wouldn't use anything else in the machines I build for clients OR myself.
Did these guys just make the shit up? I mean, just do a quick google search for 'ECS motherboard' and read the reviews. Look at the benchmarks. Better yet, drop fifty or sixty bucks on one and try it yourself. I am an Asus convert, and I'm never going back. I've got a Windows box that has been up for almost six weeks. WINDOWS! SIX WEEKS! THANK YOU ECS!
And no, I do not work for ECS, but I have had this debate a dozen times IRL and the performance/stability argument is quite simply a load of crap.
What I care about is not having to worry about the latest VIA drivers wrecking my system or hoping the bargain motehrboard I purchased for my AMD CPU won't gie me problems in 6 months. I stick with Intel because it just plain works, no worries.
WTF ever. The man can afford a dual Pentium 4 but needs to buy a bargain basement mobo for his AMD? YOU MEAN THERE ARE NO BARGAIN BASEMENT MOBOS FOR INTEL THAT SUCK? Gimme a break.
Of the three boxes I run at home, one is a dual Intel, one is a pre-XP Athlon, and the other is an XP. Guess which is more stable? Answer: NONE THEY ALL RUN FINE HAHAHAHAHA I WIN.
What I'm tired of are comments from ignorant fools who think a news site that has NEVER ONCE claimed impartiality should adhere to the same journalistic guidelines as, say, Reuters.
This is a news portal. Clever little sites, news portals. They say, "hey here is some news," followed by, "hey this is what I think of the news". Such is the way. If you don't like it, please voice your displeasure by patronizing a different site altogether.
That your ignorance has been modded up repeatedly disappoints me immensely.
I think TransOrbital is missing the very important point that there is _life_ in the ocean. They say they want to do for the moon what Jacques Coutsteau did for marine exploration, but I really can't see it happening. How many pictures of grey rocks and craters do they expect to sell? How do you do a documentary on grey rocks and craters?
The fact that we are a Christian nation of God-fearing followers of Jesus is what makes us strong. Are you out of your mind? The United States is the "strong country" it is today for two reasons: 1. Our more or less anti-Christian scientific feats. No offense, but science pretty well craps all over religion every day. CHRISTIANS: The Earth is flat! SCIENCE: No it isn't. CHRISTIANS: The Earth is the center of the Universe! SCIENCE: No it isn't. CHRISTIANS: Bats are birds! SCIENCE: No they aren't. CHRISTIANS: God created Man with magic! SCIENCE: No he didn't. I could go on for hours, but I will spare you. Still, it is impossible to deny that over the years, Christianity has put forth absurd theories of how things are and how they came to be... all have been squashed under the big black boot of knowledge (something that has plagued religion from day one). 2. Our military strength. If you can't handle the concept of a chaotic universe over which neither you nor your fictional god have control, then you are destined to wallow in meaningless arguments like this until the day you die. It is a very sad thing. Luckily, history will also record that America took the lead in correcting that mistake, and the rest of the world eventually fell into line No, history will record that America was full of these crazy religious zealots that blew up abortion clinics. History will record that America was the nation leading in the persecution of homosexuals and the fostering of the perposterous idea that man was created via magic. People of the future will look back at America very much like we look back on ancient Egypt and Greece today... "interesting religion they had, but what a crock of shit", "how could anyone believe that nonsense". And they will have a good laugh at your expense.
Just because we're moderately advanced versions of good old-fashioned chimpanzees doesn't give us the exclusive rights to destroy life wherever we discover it. And has anyone considered the possibility that, if there is single-celled life on Europa, it may very well be quite deadly to humans? Single celled life forms that coexist with us peacefully only do so after millions of years of coevolution... a good parasite never kills its host. Don't bite the hand that feeds you. Not that it matters, really, since we aren't sending people there. Yet.
I'm wondering if we can turn this into a big experiment... try to closely recreate the conditions on Earth that led to the evolution of intelligent life. Gently tip the scales of evolution so that, in a few hundred million years (after we have long been extinct), a new race of intelligent creatures will rise up and discover the remains of our civilization. Our people would be sort of cosmic parents. Or not.
I think most everyone is missing a fairly important point: If someone disagrees with the terms of a license, sure they can get their money back... but they can't use the software! People will simply ignore the licenses, since without the software they will be unable to do whatever it is the software would enable them to do (i.e. read.doc files). And I'm sorry, but I simply can't believe that Joe Average the Windows Warrior is going to read through six pages of legal Greek, regardless of the potential legal implications. A majority of Windows users (which, in turn, comprise the majority of computer users) would probably have to sit for six hours with a Webster's just to determine what they could and couldn't do with their software. They won't, period. And what's [fill in your favorite Software company] going to do? Sue millions of people?
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How dare you speak to me like that. After all, I am the original # 3, I just forgot my password. And I would like to point out that my current UID is only 6 digits smartypants!
So is mine, but it's a pretty big difference, eh? :P
Verbal agreements aside (which _may_ save your ass, talk to a lawyer) it seems to me you knowingly assigned the IP rights to someone else's code to your employer. IANAL, but I'd think any agreement you signed with them would override any supposed verbal agreement in a "he said, she said" situation. You may just find yourself in deep doo-doo. :(
Whatever you do, though, at least consult with a lawyer.
You should see my dry cleaning bill.
He tours around quite a bit, missed him a few times but finally caught him in Kansas City. Really interesting stuff. The bots not only play, but they do little skits and "interact" with the crowd. In KC, a noisy fan was rebuffed by the drumbot with, "Whatever, human heckler," while the guitarbot instructed Season to Risk (the headliners) to play a particular song or die.
If you're a geek, you should go just to see the cool instrument playing robots this guy has engineered. It's pretty neat shit.
"Whatever you want!" may not seem like a very good answer, but it is accurate. Get in the game and find some people who aren't pricks, and they should be willing to point you in a direction. The experience is entirely what you make it, unlike pretty much every other game, where the experience is entirely what the developers make it.
You want to fight other people? Mine asteroids? Ship goods around the galaxy and trade them? Run a corporation? Work for a corporation run by someone else? Build your own space station? Explore the vast unknown of space searching for rare and valuable minerals to sell?
And that ain't even all. The experience is entirely in the hands of the player. The tutorial doesn't even begin to touch everything you can do, because (I assume) 1) nobody wants to sit through a 29 hour tutorial, and 2) it's a lot more fun to figure it out for yourself. Some people are probably too impatient to enjoy this kind of experience, but even my most "twitch"-oriented friends who are in the beta love it. Surprised the hell outta me. Hrmph.
Let's take a simple example: digital audio tape (Dat). Get someone to compare Dat with a humble C90 compact cassette and they will find Dat to be technologically superior, especially for recording music. However, if you consider "the whole product", Dat is vastly inferior for most people most of the time. This is why people still buy millions of cassettes, while Dat has virtually disappeared from consumer use.
Er...I thought the RIAA effectively taxed DAT out of the reach of consumers? Dat is only inferior because it's so damn expensive.
Unless you're signed to a major label, in which case they advance you $100,000 - $1,000,000 and say, "here, we hooked you up with this producer (who is working for us) at our studio." So you take the money you have borrowed from the record company and use it to pay them for the producer and the studio time, and the post production, and the DAT and mastering, and the art and packaging, and duplication. By this point, unless you're a well-established artist (i.e. already rich) you are now permanently indebted to the label when your record tanks, which it will, and they write the whole thing off as a failed business venture then sue you for the advance.
Or you could spend a couple hundred or a thousand bucks on a mixing board and some kind of recording device (or just use your damn computer) and make a record that sounds just as good. Sure, it might not be ULTRA RICK RUBIN SLICK but nobody is going to notice except assholes anyway.
Obviously you're not a gamer. Hell, I'm not a gamer and my slowest machine has dual Celerys @ 500. All the machines older than that have found new homes at non-geek friends houses and charities. I used to keep that crap around, but what's the point? If I wanted a room filled up with 20MB hard drives and 256K ISA video cards I'd call up Microsoft and tell them I was a school looking for a donation.
Anyway, nobody who had more brains than money would buy the machine being reviewed. Of course, that doesn't mean they have to "justify having that much power." "Because I want it," is more justification than is required.
Who modded that up? Being laid off isn't funny, it sucks. Of course, coding for $10/hr with no bonuses nor even hope of bonuses sucks almost as bad.
Maybe I should find a new line of work.
Laid off. :/
Anybody need a perl guy? Will work for cheap! Real cheap.
A joke like "smoking crack" is funny to many people. But it will not be funny to every person.
OH CRAP! I guess we better say "orally inhaling the fumes of rock cocaine, possibly through a glass pipe" instead. Meh. Give it a rest. Throw that utopian PC bullshit out the window, it has no place in reality. This isn't an "official superspecial Linux document for the megacorp executive's eyes only", it's a piece by an OSS guy for the OSS community. Get over it.
Morons. Can't live with them, can't run around chopping their heads off with a giant axe.
I'm not trying to troll here, but I never did quite understand punk. What is the purpose?
Being a (more or less) grown up punk, I feel I can say with authority that the purpose of suburban punk is to give kids a cultural alternative. Great, yay, more power to them, they can buy blink 182 records and spank it to gwen stefani posters. For me at least, the "mainstream punk" of the time (Nirvana, et al) led into a broad appreciation of everything from GG Allin to Frank Zappa. But that's just the music part, of course. I adopted a lot of values from the music that made sense to me. I might have cared whether my green liberty spikes were high enough when I was 16, but I certainly wouldn't now. I don't even bother to comb my hair anymore. I just can't force myself to give a shit what a bunch of dead cells growing out the top of my head looks like. Clothes? Who gives a shit. If it's under $5.00 it's got my name on it, as long as it properly conceals whatever part of my body culture dictates must be concealed from public view. I spend most of my money that doesn't go to rent or food on computer hardware and musical equipment...things that assist me in creative endeavors. I desperately want to get rid of the burden of a car, although this city makes that infeasible, so I may have to move (although, as a voting Libertarian, I'm also considering running for office to make changes).
I credit punk with planting the seeds of self-reliance, government/authority distrust, "I don't give a fuck"-ness, and thrift in my head as a kid. A lot of people apparently have none of these, although the /. crowd seems fairly liberal in that regard. Whether you like punk music or not (and I happen to) you probably are more in line with punk philosophy than you realize, even if you're to afraid to actually do it.
You'd be surprised how easy it is to get people to take you seriously, no matter what you look like, when you know how to get shit done.
Those questions are terrible. If I were the interviewee, I'd probably send them back with a note like, "uh...get real." Darwin Awards? Dr. Strangelove? Yeah, that's the HARD-HITTING stuff there, guys. Way to go. Next, why don't you lecture us about the state of amateur rocketry in post-Columbine, post-9/11 America?
Not everybody cares about the pop culture to which many of you cling, and indeed some of us actively despise and avoid it whenever possible. You are not cute, hip, or funny.
If that weren't bad enough, now I have to sit and watch a bunch of backseat undergraduate engineers naysaying this highly motivated and dedicated individual who is actually doing something! Hey, well, if you don't think he will make it then cool. You are welcome to try and prove his task impossible by throwing numbers and formulas around that you have a marginal understanding of, but that doesn't make his success any less likely. He may not be an engineer, and I know that the engineer's ego is a large and dangerous creature, but please...he's doing something cool and fascinating and intriguing. You're not. Deal with it in some other way than with judgement values and boringly predictable jealous criticism.
I dunno who told these jokers that ECS make underperforming boards, but it's a lie. It is true that they don't have some of the more popular overclocking features, but for stability and performance their boards are up there with the "big boys" at often less than half the price. I wouldn't use anything else in the machines I build for clients OR myself.
Did these guys just make the shit up? I mean, just do a quick google search for 'ECS motherboard' and read the reviews. Look at the benchmarks. Better yet, drop fifty or sixty bucks on one and try it yourself. I am an Asus convert, and I'm never going back. I've got a Windows box that has been up for almost six weeks. WINDOWS! SIX WEEKS! THANK YOU ECS!
And no, I do not work for ECS, but I have had this debate a dozen times IRL and the performance/stability argument is quite simply a load of crap.
What I care about is not having to worry about the latest VIA drivers wrecking my system or hoping the bargain motehrboard I purchased for my AMD CPU won't gie me problems in 6 months. I stick with Intel because it just plain works, no worries.
WTF ever. The man can afford a dual Pentium 4 but needs to buy a bargain basement mobo for his AMD? YOU MEAN THERE ARE NO BARGAIN BASEMENT MOBOS FOR INTEL THAT SUCK? Gimme a break.
Of the three boxes I run at home, one is a dual Intel, one is a pre-XP Athlon, and the other is an XP. Guess which is more stable? Answer: NONE THEY ALL RUN FINE HAHAHAHAHA I WIN.
Dear Mr. Wire Tap:
What I'm tired of are comments from ignorant fools who think a news site that has NEVER ONCE claimed impartiality should adhere to the same journalistic guidelines as, say, Reuters.
This is a news portal. Clever little sites, news portals. They say, "hey here is some news," followed by, "hey this is what I think of the news". Such is the way. If you don't like it, please voice your displeasure by patronizing a different site altogether.
That your ignorance has been modded up repeatedly disappoints me immensely.
I think TransOrbital is missing the very important point that there is _life_ in the ocean. They say they want to do for the moon what Jacques Coutsteau did for marine exploration, but I really can't see it happening. How many pictures of grey rocks and craters do they expect to sell? How do you do a documentary on grey rocks and craters?
The fact that we are a Christian nation of God-fearing followers of Jesus is what makes us strong. Are you out of your mind? The United States is the "strong country" it is today for two reasons: 1. Our more or less anti-Christian scientific feats. No offense, but science pretty well craps all over religion every day. CHRISTIANS: The Earth is flat! SCIENCE: No it isn't. CHRISTIANS: The Earth is the center of the Universe! SCIENCE: No it isn't. CHRISTIANS: Bats are birds! SCIENCE: No they aren't. CHRISTIANS: God created Man with magic! SCIENCE: No he didn't. I could go on for hours, but I will spare you. Still, it is impossible to deny that over the years, Christianity has put forth absurd theories of how things are and how they came to be... all have been squashed under the big black boot of knowledge (something that has plagued religion from day one). 2. Our military strength. If you can't handle the concept of a chaotic universe over which neither you nor your fictional god have control, then you are destined to wallow in meaningless arguments like this until the day you die. It is a very sad thing. Luckily, history will also record that America took the lead in correcting that mistake, and the rest of the world eventually fell into line No, history will record that America was full of these crazy religious zealots that blew up abortion clinics. History will record that America was the nation leading in the persecution of homosexuals and the fostering of the perposterous idea that man was created via magic. People of the future will look back at America very much like we look back on ancient Egypt and Greece today... "interesting religion they had, but what a crock of shit", "how could anyone believe that nonsense". And they will have a good laugh at your expense.
Just because we're moderately advanced versions of good old-fashioned chimpanzees doesn't give us the exclusive rights to destroy life wherever we discover it. And has anyone considered the possibility that, if there is single-celled life on Europa, it may very well be quite deadly to humans? Single celled life forms that coexist with us peacefully only do so after millions of years of coevolution... a good parasite never kills its host. Don't bite the hand that feeds you. Not that it matters, really, since we aren't sending people there. Yet.
I'm wondering if we can turn this into a big experiment... try to closely recreate the conditions on Earth that led to the evolution of intelligent life. Gently tip the scales of evolution so that, in a few hundred million years (after we have long been extinct), a new race of intelligent creatures will rise up and discover the remains of our civilization. Our people would be sort of cosmic parents. Or not.
I think most everyone is missing a fairly important point: If someone disagrees with the terms of a license, sure they can get their money back... but they can't use the software! People will simply ignore the licenses, since without the software they will be unable to do whatever it is the software would enable them to do (i.e. read .doc files). And I'm sorry, but I simply can't believe that Joe Average the Windows Warrior is going to read through six pages of legal Greek, regardless of the potential legal implications. A majority of Windows users (which, in turn, comprise the majority of computer users) would probably have to sit for six hours with a Webster's just to determine what they could and couldn't do with their software. They won't, period. And what's [fill in your favorite Software company] going to do? Sue millions of people?