Wow... I have never, ever seen a software product that wasn't working on QA bug reports right up to the minute the gold disc is burned. And afterwards, of course, working on all the pre-release bugs that had been classified as 'known issues'.
Seconded. Clearly this guy either doesn't know what he is talking about or is just playing politics (office and/or party). I've personally encountered bugs or (incomplete features) in past releases of Oracle. I don't recall the specifics of the feature I was trying to use, but it was a documented feature that should have been available and according to Oracle's own knowledge base the function should have worked a certain way, but only to dig a little deeper to find that it was just a stub function that hadn't actually been written yet. This was an enterprise product used by thousands of big businesses and it simply didn't do what they said it did.
To say that you are just changing colors on a software product a month before delivery is a rediculous thing to say, and really this guy shouldn't be in his job if he actually believes what he said, vendors are working on bugs for years after delivery on anything as complex as this would need to be.
Hell, even NASA even built in a way to update the software on the Mars landers, when they were on Mars. That isn't to say that this FBI software project has been well managed, well specified, or even well coded, but a certain amount of imperfection must be understood in any project management and design.
It was projected that in a matter of millions of years, the moon will cause the earth to stop rotating altogether. Without rotation, do you seriously think we will inhabit this planet?
For that matter, in a matter of millions of years, we should have developed a technology for making the earth rotate as fast as we wish, and moving the moon back where we want it to be. All it requires is enough rocket-power by even today's standards.
Your arguments truly illustrate the near futility of meaningfully extrapolating out that far ahead in time.
Fox news goes out of its way to try and piss off what they consider is a an establishment of left wing reporters that they believe for years has been reporting stories with a left wing slant, but claiming to be impartial. So now fox claims to be impartial but purposefully doesn't mean it, yet goes out of its way to bash the democrats and liberals whenever possible. They definately hold themselves to a different standard of journalism than would a serious news organization.
What is most disturbing is the dishonesty that goes well beyond parody and becomes an incitement to hate people based on ignorant stereotyping. If people would see past the bullshit that terrorists hate us because they hate freedom or are just angry because they are a miserable people through no fault of our own then we would be better off.
Christians believe that you should love your enemy. It doesn't mean that you can't kill them to defend yourself and your country, but love does mean honestly trying to understand and listen to them. That is the road to peace through justice.
Those that go on fox news and preach an ignorant hatred of those that might want to kill us are on the same path of those that they would condemn.
I've noticed that they only report on the "facts" that support their views or agenda. It goes well beyond the opinion shows which one would expect to have a slant. I have no problem with Fox News, but to call their reporting fair and balanced or whatever they call it... is a joke. And I think that it is meant to be a joke. I'm sorry if you don't get it.
Thank you and I just read through the preprint, yours was a helpful summary.
I'd still be pretty skeptical about this observation disproving the hypothesis that "Dark Matter" is just a fudge of innacuracies in current gravitational theories, gravitational theories which we know are at best incomplete without a well tested unified theory.
I'd say a better bet to get some good gravitational data would be to try and explain the Pioneer anomoly with a purposefully designed deep space probe.
Brand recognition isn't everything. With sites like Truveo and Blinkx TV, you can just search through all the various video websites out there, no matter what site they're on.
I'm glad that your post was rated "Interesting" and not "Insightful".
But I would have voted "Funny" because those other websites you mention also have pretty poor names themselves.
"straight-talking" is not a term I would use to describe the Colbert Report, even though I would agree with the satirical points that Colbert is trying to make. Parody isn't straight talk.
But "straight-talking" is not a subjective term which merely describes someone you agree with. Straight Talk is simply defined as "Plain, honest speaking"
Recognizing someone as being honest is not simply a matter of agreement with the person.
Sure if you can't recognize the truth then it might be confusing to you and there would be disagreement over the description. Like those that believe Donald Rumsfeld is a straight talker just because he uses folksy language sometimes, but I wouldn't agree that he is a straight talker because of his numerous obfuscations on progress and the prospect for progress in Iraq. I don't know of public figure I would describe as a straight talker at least on all subjects. Maybe Oprah.
Actually I said oil, but even looking at gas prices, they were at a low of $.80 -$.90 per gallon in 1999 and have been going up steadily ever since.
Oil Prices have also tripled in price since 2002-2003 even, with prices currently around $75 a barrel
The last several years have seen far higher than average increases in oil prices 2002-2003 21% rise in price 2003-2004 37% 2004-2005 35% 2005-2006 might end up being be 40%
Natural Gas prices also experienced a 40% rise in prices last year and are probably a better indication of electricity prices. Though googling around there seems some expectation that prices will actually fall or at least remain stable this year, but I wouldn't count on it with oil prices probably shifting demand to natural gas in power plants that can burn either.
Though really making plans based on projecting energy prices is going to be difficult. With instable prices that could just as easily go down as up, I think planners will have a hard sell to spend money on a conversion to DC power. Although if existing facilities can be adapted rack by rack to DC and still see as significant a efficiency savings on a per rack basis then I could see this happening as equipment is replaced over time rather than making one large investment in an facilities upgrade.
Seems just from your calculations that a doubling of energy costs would put ROI within the 3 year time frame. Another doubling energy costs doesn't seem that far fetched with oil prices already tripling over the last several years.
15% seems compeling for DC power in new construction, but obviously this begs the question of switching costs. But 15% was just for the electricity used to power the servers, the article assumes as would I that there would be additional savings due to reduced cooling needs... that extra 15% electricity would have generated about that much heat. I'd like to see a breakdown of switching costs.
Not sure why you keep coming back to "personal use", I think I've always been saying "fair use".
Renting them equipment is the same as them doing it themselves, though. That one was easy.;)
So, there you go. Just set up a kiosk at the store, to take out the middleman. And copyright law according to your interpretation is satisfied. Perhaps Circuit City could still prevalidate that the customer has purchased the original before allowing them to access the kiosk, but even that might be uneccesary if they are renting the equipment.
If you make an illegal copy in the privacy of your own home, it is privacy that protects you not copyright law.
But this isn't a backup. It's a version created for use on device the original was not intended to work on.
According to fair use you are entitled to make a backup copy onto another medium (VHS to DVD for example). So, a person doing this copying and reformatting at home is doing something perfectly legal, at least under copyright law, the question is then does assisting someone doing something that is legal violate the law simply by charging for their services. Would I be violating the copyright if I went to the person's home and used their own equipment and simply charged for my knowledged. What if the person rents the equipment at circuit city for a period of time instead of paying an actual person to copy the content? Seems that would even address your point, if it is legally valid.
From my recollection, making 1 backup of content that you have bought is considered fair use. It doesn't matter if you are paying someone to make the backup or not.
The distinction between you doing it for yourself and a commercial entity doing it for you for profit is pretty big when it comes to copyright.
So you are saying that you can pay for the ability to copy but not for the act. I agree, but that assumes that the act is illegal in the first place. The fact of charging makes no difference as the copyright owner would still be harmed in the transaction if it is an illegal copy. Just as file sharers have been sued for harming copyright owners by giving away free copies.
It really does come back to fair use. If the buyers of DVDs have a right to watch content that they have paid for on other devices under fair use doctrines, then Circuit City is in the clear. If not, then they are in a boatload of trouble regardless of whether they are charging people money.
It depends on the shape of the universe... If you think of an Omega constant less or equal than 1, it's either flat or convex, in wich case the frontier diverges... if, on the other hand, it's more than one, you could have your spheric universe. Another missconception, AFAIK, is withe the "outside of it". The universe, by definition, is existence itself, in the form of time-space. There can't be an outside because there is no existence there, not even the absence of matter... Yeap, this is the place when phisics turn philosophers...
It is sometimes frustrating to hear people talk about the end of science and that its seems we are just around the corner from knowing all there is to know. I think from now on I will point out that we aren't even sure if the Universe itself is curved, flat or divergent. The obvious analogy is to a time when Christopher Columbus hadn't set sail for the new world and many people still believed that the world was flat. Probably an even more realistic picture is that we are at a point in Humanity's understanding of the Universe equivalent to when people learned to build canoes and paddle not far from shore.
What difference does the device make to the law? If I playback a movie on a 20" tv versus a 50" tv that was intended is that somehow infringing the copyright? formatted for that media? Seems that reformatting for the device is inherent to electronic media, regardless of whether it is simply for playback or to make a persistant copy.
Commercial entities profit all the time from another's works, they are called hardware manufacturers. A TV is worthless without the content, so are devices which allow people to record over the air content. Tivo has withstood its legal battles.
You seem hung up on the money. But I would focus on whether a person has a right to duplicate content they have paid for and play it on another device. Whether they pay a hardware manufacturer for the device to do it themselves or pay for the time for someone else to do it for them seems legally irrelevant.
I agree 100% that *we* should be allowed to do this, and that CC should be allowed to do it as a value-added service, but they should *not* be able to charge for it.
Ah so what exactly is the difference between offering this as a service or offering this as a product? You say we should be allowed to do this... but presumably you mean using duplication equipment that we buy ourselves. So, wouldn't the hardware manufacturer be making a profit on selling equipment to enable us to do this? Is it about the profit or the act? Why should it be considered legally different whether I put a DVD into a machine or hand it to someone if the result is the same and both cost money?
The point is that OS percentages can no longer be derived from total sales numbers. OS numbers now need to be collected by survey rather than measures of shipments. And talking about "Apple" as in hardware now must be considered differently from OS X market share.
The post that I was replying to also assumed that the remaining 95% of PC shipments were running Windows which is very likely off by at least a couple percent considering that the numbers I saw included "deskbased PCs, mobile PCs and X86 servers" I know that a large number of those servers are running Linux.
Yes, the poster was using the numbers merely to show that style wasn't a driving factor for most people, but with Apple coming to parity of price, hardware compatibility and performance. It is really Dell, HP and Lenovo (not to mention the others that still make up a third of the market) that are the ones that must consider every competive edge that Apple might have and counter it.
Then please explain MS's 95% marketshare versus Apple's 5%?
Actually, MS has 100% market share if you consider that Windows now runs natively on Apple hardware. But you'd be better off considering Apple as a harware manufacturer and comparing them to Dell, HP and the likes and not Microsoft.
Which show Apple is the 4th largest after Dell, HP and Gateway.
Comparing OS numbers is only relevant for Software developers now that Macs run Windows. Which may have been brilliant marketing, but also the new reality.
Now the funding is at its end, and everyone is calling abandon ship after the ship has sunk.
Yes, there was an understanding not to complain too loudly until all the money was spent. This was understood by all, including the politicians, contractors, press, and public.
Mistakes were made in engineering, construction and oversight, certainly, but the real shame in all this is the way in which approval for the project was gotten by low balling initial cost estimates, or more precisely using really old cost estimates that weren't adjusted for inflation. The big dig was never "over budget" it was just that it was sold to Congress at 1/3 of what it inevitably would cost.
This is merely a microcosm of the way Congress has been spending money the American taxpayer will never have and it does little good to blame one party or another. Congress has been spending money like a drunken sailor on shore leave in a whore house, except in the whore house they usually only take cash.
Ah I was just looking back at my past postings... That is probably where I got the 400k number. Future liability... of course that assumes the government of the future doesn't just decide to screw over the people it "owes" money to.
and he used to run a cheap porn site. Does anybody else just stop and wondering in amazement sometimes that wikipedia actually made it? In just a few years it's gone from nothing to the most used reference in the world.
A lot of tech guys work on software for internet porn. I was in a meeting once and a discussion about whether a particular solution was scalable was concluded with "Well it worked for Porn, so it should work for this". He made his point.
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Wow... I have never, ever seen a software product that wasn't working on QA bug reports right up to the minute the gold disc is burned. And afterwards, of course, working on all the pre-release bugs that had been classified as 'known issues'.
Seconded. Clearly this guy either doesn't know what he is talking about or is just playing politics (office and/or party). I've personally encountered bugs or (incomplete features) in past releases of Oracle. I don't recall the specifics of the feature I was trying to use, but it was a documented feature that should have been available and according to Oracle's own knowledge base the function should have worked a certain way, but only to dig a little deeper to find that it was just a stub function that hadn't actually been written yet. This was an enterprise product used by thousands of big businesses and it simply didn't do what they said it did.
To say that you are just changing colors on a software product a month before delivery is a rediculous thing to say, and really this guy shouldn't be in his job if he actually believes what he said, vendors are working on bugs for years after delivery on anything as complex as this would need to be.
Hell, even NASA even built in a way to update the software on the Mars landers, when they were on Mars. That isn't to say that this FBI software project has been well managed, well specified, or even well coded, but a certain amount of imperfection must be understood in any project management and design.
It was projected that in a matter of millions of years, the moon will cause the earth to stop rotating altogether. Without rotation, do you seriously think we will inhabit this planet?
For that matter, in a matter of millions of years, we should have developed a technology for making the earth rotate as fast as we wish, and moving the moon back where we want it to be. All it requires is enough rocket-power by even today's standards.
Your arguments truly illustrate the near futility of meaningfully extrapolating out that far ahead in time.
Fox news goes out of its way to try and piss off what they consider is a an establishment of left wing reporters that they believe for years has been reporting stories with a left wing slant, but claiming to be impartial. So now fox claims to be impartial but purposefully doesn't mean it, yet goes out of its way to bash the democrats and liberals whenever possible. They definately hold themselves to a different standard of journalism than would a serious news organization.
What is most disturbing is the dishonesty that goes well beyond parody and becomes an incitement to hate people based on ignorant stereotyping. If people would see past the bullshit that terrorists hate us because they hate freedom or are just angry because they are a miserable people through no fault of our own then we would be better off.
Christians believe that you should love your enemy. It doesn't mean that you can't kill them to defend yourself and your country, but love does mean honestly trying to understand and listen to them. That is the road to peace through justice.
Those that go on fox news and preach an ignorant hatred of those that might want to kill us are on the same path of those that they would condemn.
it's also factually accurate news.
I've noticed that they only report on the "facts" that support their views or agenda. It goes well beyond the opinion shows which one would expect to have a slant. I have no problem with Fox News, but to call their reporting fair and balanced or whatever they call it... is a joke. And I think that it is meant to be a joke. I'm sorry if you don't get it.
Corporations have long been treating consumers like sheep. It's a small wonder that they haven't started publishing fake newspapers yet.
Newspapers are old school, no they jumped right to cable.
Thank you and I just read through the preprint, yours was a helpful summary.
I'd still be pretty skeptical about this observation disproving the hypothesis that "Dark Matter" is just a fudge of innacuracies in current gravitational theories, gravitational theories which we know are at best incomplete without a well tested unified theory.
I'd say a better bet to get some good gravitational data would be to try and explain the Pioneer anomoly with a purposefully designed deep space probe.
Brand recognition isn't everything. With sites like Truveo and Blinkx TV, you can just search through all the various video websites out there, no matter what site they're on.
I'm glad that your post was rated "Interesting" and not "Insightful".
But I would have voted "Funny" because those other websites you mention also have pretty poor names themselves.
"straight-talking" is not a term I would use to describe the Colbert Report, even though I would agree with the satirical points that Colbert is trying to make. Parody isn't straight talk.
But "straight-talking" is not a subjective term which merely describes someone you agree with. Straight Talk is simply defined as "Plain, honest speaking"
Recognizing someone as being honest is not simply a matter of agreement with the person.
Sure if you can't recognize the truth then it might be confusing to you and there would be disagreement over the description. Like those that believe Donald Rumsfeld is a straight talker just because he uses folksy language sometimes, but I wouldn't agree that he is a straight talker because of his numerous obfuscations on progress and the prospect for progress in Iraq. I don't know of public figure I would describe as a straight talker at least on all subjects. Maybe Oprah.
Actually I said oil, but even looking at gas prices, they were at a low of $.80 -$.90 per gallon in 1999 and have been going up steadily ever since.
Oil Prices have also tripled in price since 2002-2003 even, with prices currently around $75 a barrel
The last several years have seen far higher than average increases in oil prices
2002-2003 21% rise in price
2003-2004 37%
2004-2005 35%
2005-2006 might end up being be 40%
Natural Gas prices also experienced a 40% rise in prices last year and are probably a better indication of electricity prices. Though googling around there seems some expectation that prices will actually fall or at least remain stable this year, but I wouldn't count on it with oil prices probably shifting demand to natural gas in power plants that can burn either.
Though really making plans based on projecting energy prices is going to be difficult. With instable prices that could just as easily go down as up, I think planners will have a hard sell to spend money on a conversion to DC power. Although if existing facilities can be adapted rack by rack to DC and still see as significant a efficiency savings on a per rack basis then I could see this happening as equipment is replaced over time rather than making one large investment in an facilities upgrade.
Seems just from your calculations that a doubling of energy costs would put ROI within the 3 year time frame. Another doubling energy costs doesn't seem that far fetched with oil prices already tripling over the last several years.
15% seems compeling for DC power in new construction, but obviously this begs the question of switching costs. But 15% was just for the electricity used to power the servers, the article assumes as would I that there would be additional savings due to reduced cooling needs... that extra 15% electricity would have generated about that much heat. I'd like to see a breakdown of switching costs.
In fact, "personal use" is not even mentioned.
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Not sure why you keep coming back to "personal use", I think I've always been saying "fair use".
Renting them equipment is the same as them doing it themselves, though. That one was easy.
So, there you go. Just set up a kiosk at the store, to take out the middleman. And copyright law according to your interpretation is satisfied. Perhaps Circuit City could still prevalidate that the customer has purchased the original before allowing them to access the kiosk, but even that might be uneccesary if they are renting the equipment.
If you make an illegal copy in the privacy of your own home, it is privacy that protects you not copyright law.
But this isn't a backup. It's a version created for use on device the original was not intended to work on.
According to fair use you are entitled to make a backup copy onto another medium (VHS to DVD for example). So, a person doing this copying and reformatting at home is doing something perfectly legal, at least under copyright law, the question is then does assisting someone doing something that is legal violate the law simply by charging for their services. Would I be violating the copyright if I went to the person's home and used their own equipment and simply charged for my knowledged. What if the person rents the equipment at circuit city for a period of time instead of paying an actual person to copy the content? Seems that would even address your point, if it is legally valid.
From my recollection, making 1 backup of content that you have bought is considered fair use. It doesn't matter if you are paying someone to make the backup or not.
The distinction between you doing it for yourself and a commercial entity doing it for you for profit is pretty big when it comes to copyright.
So you are saying that you can pay for the ability to copy but not for the act. I agree, but that assumes that the act is illegal in the first place. The fact of charging makes no difference as the copyright owner would still be harmed in the transaction if it is an illegal copy. Just as file sharers have been sued for harming copyright owners by giving away free copies.
It really does come back to fair use. If the buyers of DVDs have a right to watch content that they have paid for on other devices under fair use doctrines, then Circuit City is in the clear. If not, then they are in a boatload of trouble regardless of whether they are charging people money.
It depends on the shape of the universe... If you think of an Omega constant less or equal than 1, it's either flat or convex, in wich case the frontier diverges... if, on the other hand, it's more than one, you could have your spheric universe. Another missconception, AFAIK, is withe the "outside of it". The universe, by definition, is existence itself, in the form of time-space. There can't be an outside because there is no existence there, not even the absence of matter... Yeap, this is the place when phisics turn philosophers...
It is sometimes frustrating to hear people talk about the end of science and that its seems we are just around the corner from knowing all there is to know. I think from now on I will point out that we aren't even sure if the Universe itself is curved, flat or divergent. The obvious analogy is to a time when Christopher Columbus hadn't set sail for the new world and many people still believed that the world was flat. Probably an even more realistic picture is that we are at a point in Humanity's understanding of the Universe equivalent to when people learned to build canoes and paddle not far from shore.
I don't think so.
What difference does the device make to the law? If I playback a movie on a 20" tv versus a 50" tv that was intended is that somehow infringing the copyright? formatted for that media? Seems that reformatting for the device is inherent to electronic media, regardless of whether it is simply for playback or to make a persistant copy.
Commercial entities profit all the time from another's works, they are called hardware manufacturers. A TV is worthless without the content, so are devices which allow people to record over the air content. Tivo has withstood its legal battles.
You seem hung up on the money. But I would focus on whether a person has a right to duplicate content they have paid for and play it on another device. Whether they pay a hardware manufacturer for the device to do it themselves or pay for the time for someone else to do it for them seems legally irrelevant.
I agree 100% that *we* should be allowed to do this, and that CC should be allowed to do it as a value-added service, but they should *not* be able to charge for it.
Ah so what exactly is the difference between offering this as a service or offering this as a product? You say we should be allowed to do this... but presumably you mean using duplication equipment that we buy ourselves. So, wouldn't the hardware manufacturer be making a profit on selling equipment to enable us to do this? Is it about the profit or the act? Why should it be considered legally different whether I put a DVD into a machine or hand it to someone if the result is the same and both cost money?
The point is that OS percentages can no longer be derived from total sales numbers. OS numbers now need to be collected by survey rather than measures of shipments. And talking about "Apple" as in hardware now must be considered differently from OS X market share.
The post that I was replying to also assumed that the remaining 95% of PC shipments were running Windows which is very likely off by at least a couple percent considering that the numbers I saw included "deskbased PCs, mobile PCs and X86 servers" I know that a large number of those servers are running Linux.
Yes, the poster was using the numbers merely to show that style wasn't a driving factor for most people, but with Apple coming to parity of price, hardware compatibility and performance. It is really Dell, HP and Lenovo (not to mention the others that still make up a third of the market) that are the ones that must consider every competive edge that Apple might have and counter it.
Then please explain MS's 95% marketshare versus Apple's 5%?
Actually, MS has 100% market share if you consider that Windows now runs natively on Apple hardware. But you'd be better off considering Apple as a harware manufacturer and comparing them to Dell, HP and the likes and not Microsoft.
Here are Gartner's numbers
Which show Apple is the 4th largest after Dell, HP and Gateway.
Comparing OS numbers is only relevant for Software developers now that Macs run Windows. Which may have been brilliant marketing, but also the new reality.
Now the funding is at its end, and everyone is calling abandon ship after the ship has sunk.
Yes, there was an understanding not to complain too loudly until all the money was spent. This was understood by all, including the politicians, contractors, press, and public.
Mistakes were made in engineering, construction and oversight, certainly, but the real shame in all this is the way in which approval for the project was gotten by low balling initial cost estimates, or more precisely using really old cost estimates that weren't adjusted for inflation. The big dig was never "over budget" it was just that it was sold to Congress at 1/3 of what it inevitably would cost.
This is merely a microcosm of the way Congress has been spending money the American taxpayer will never have and it does little good to blame one party or another. Congress has been spending money like a drunken sailor on shore leave in a whore house, except in the whore house they usually only take cash.
You've got to be fucking kidding. Its tyranny.
Vote Libertarian.
Ah I was just looking back at my past postings... That is probably where I got the 400k number. Future liability... of course that assumes the government of the future doesn't just decide to screw over the people it "owes" money to.
...blowing through another STOP sign.
Stop signs are a waste of gas!
and he used to run a cheap porn site. Does anybody else just stop and wondering in amazement sometimes that wikipedia actually made it? In just a few years it's gone from nothing to the most used reference in the world.
A lot of tech guys work on software for internet porn. I was in a meeting once and a discussion about whether a particular solution was scalable was concluded with "Well it worked for Porn, so it should work for this". He made his point.