So, in option 1, who will users switch to from BellSouth? The cable companies? They'll be doing the same thing eventually. It will be a rare ISP that doesn't charge content providers if it passes muster in the courts.
Answer: The ISP that likes the idea of free (or cheap) advertising from Google in order to crush the competition.
I've worked with them before. They're based out of Denver, but have other offices.
I was on a team of about 4 employees with 8 contractors, plus project management and specifications writers who were also contractors. It worked well, but there was certainly still some startup cost.
From what I understand of the average watermark technique... It's mostly a non-destructive way of encoding info inside the music data itself. It's not some new protocol you need a new version of winamp for. A watermark-enabled winamp would be a good thing... it would tell you if the.mp3 is watermarked. Otherwise you'd probably never know. Some people probably have some watermarked songs right now, they just don't know it.
I wrote a toy distributed web server two years ago while working for a -hardware- company that shall remain nameless. Reading the IP agreement I signed, I thought "They can't possibly claim this"... so I asked my boss to see if he could get me a letter disclaiming any interest in it.
Three weeks later my boss' boss called me in his office, his face just red with rage. Apparently legal was going to get our VP to take time out and evaluate my program for any possible value to the company. It pissed off the entire management chain... and legal settled on just sending copies of the application out to every single department in the company, asking if anyone wanted it. I never got my letter. They figured out they couldn't claim it and had absolutely no interest in an employee's peace of mind.
Really goddamn fair if you ask me. I'm -very- wary of any IP agreement these days... and I am doing IC work because of that. I'll give up rights in stuff I work on if I have to... but if there's any text about "concepts or ideas you have while working on the project" the IP agreement is returned. Sometimes they change it, most times I just have to walk away.
I like the basic rules of work-for-hire in IP law... Most IP agreements I've seen are just about opening up alternative revenue streams.
The assumption here is the colleges can teach CS well. I'm sorry, I don't think they can. It's really tragic. It bothers me so much I often waste several hours thinking about it. It really is a tough problem... the central skill IMHO is not a technique or an algorithm, but just having a mindset that can efficiently solve problems. How to teach people to be better problem solvers is beyond anything I know about. Lots of logic games?:)
Umm... I've had the unfortunate experience of interviewing on several occasions people who had CS degrees... even one or two with masters degrees. I was massively unimpressed. It strengthened my need to read Dilbert strips.:) Almost all (if not all) good programmers, college educated or not, -taught themselves- the majority of the skills required.
Now, for EE... the classes actually teach you something. There are much more concrete things to teach. What do you learn in CS? Languages like PASCAL, COBOL, or FORTRAN. The importance being on learning syntax and not what is -really- important, which is how to break problems down and understanding how to form the logic required to solve them. If you can do this, you can program in any language with a bit of lead time. What I was being taught before I left college was mostly a waste of time. Now, the senior years might have been better... but judging from the people I've seen in the field... I doubt it.
Now, you were saying not having a degree limits options. This is probably true. I had about three or four interviewers say my lack of a degree was unacceptable. Maybe half a dozen more who said so before the interview stage. I've had twice as many interviewers who didn't care... maybe after quizzing me a bit more thoroughly. In five years of work I've maintained an average 50% yearly salary increase and expect to keep it up at least another two years before I start to level off.
Some people care about the paper, most I've met just want results.
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Answer: The ISP that likes the idea of free (or cheap) advertising from Google in order to crush the competition.
I've worked with them before. They're based out of Denver, but have other offices.
I was on a team of about 4 employees with 8 contractors, plus project management and specifications writers who were also contractors. It worked well, but there was certainly still some startup cost.
Well, IANAL, but it seems to me that Nikon itself can get in trouble with the DMCA.
If I use their software to read your encrypted data, then they have provided the software to do so!
Of course, I consider this a bad law -- but it is the law.
Yeah, I guess a bit of editing destroyed what I meant to say... 'mostly non-destructive'...
I meant you shouldn't be able to tell a difference by ear.
:)
From what I understand of the average watermark technique... It's mostly a non-destructive way of encoding info inside the music data itself. It's not some new protocol you need a new version of winamp for. A watermark-enabled winamp would be a good thing... it would tell you if the .mp3 is watermarked. Otherwise you'd probably never know. Some people probably have some watermarked songs right now, they just don't know it.
I wrote a toy distributed web server two years ago while working for a -hardware- company that shall remain nameless. Reading the IP agreement I signed, I thought "They can't possibly claim this"... so I asked my boss to see if he could get me a letter disclaiming any interest in it.
Three weeks later my boss' boss called me in his office, his face just red with rage. Apparently legal was going to get our VP to take time out and evaluate my program for any possible value to the company. It pissed off the entire management chain... and legal settled on just sending copies of the application out to every single department in the company, asking if anyone wanted it. I never got my letter. They figured out they couldn't claim it and had absolutely no interest in an employee's peace of mind.
Really goddamn fair if you ask me. I'm -very- wary of any IP agreement these days... and I am doing IC work because of that. I'll give up rights in stuff I work on if I have to... but if there's any text about "concepts or ideas you have while working on the project" the IP agreement is returned. Sometimes they change it, most times I just have to walk away.
I like the basic rules of work-for-hire in IP law... Most IP agreements I've seen are just about opening up alternative revenue streams.
Darron
... but how would you know unless you'd gone?
:)
The assumption here is the colleges can teach CS well. I'm sorry, I don't think they can. It's really tragic. It bothers me so much I often waste several hours thinking about it. It really is a tough problem... the central skill IMHO is not a technique or an algorithm, but just having a mindset that can efficiently solve problems. How to teach people to be better problem solvers is beyond anything I know about. Lots of logic games?
Darron
Umm... I've had the unfortunate experience of interviewing on several occasions people who had CS degrees... even one or two with masters degrees. I was massively unimpressed. It strengthened my need to read Dilbert strips. :) Almost all (if not all) good programmers, college educated or not, -taught themselves- the majority of the skills required.
Now, for EE... the classes actually teach you something. There are much more concrete things to teach. What do you learn in CS? Languages like PASCAL, COBOL, or FORTRAN. The importance being on learning syntax and not what is -really- important, which is how to break problems down and understanding how to form the logic required to solve them. If you can do this, you can program in any language with a bit of lead time. What I was being taught before I left college was mostly a waste of time. Now, the senior years might have been better... but judging from the people I've seen in the field... I doubt it.
Now, you were saying not having a degree limits options. This is probably true. I had about three or four interviewers say my lack of a degree was unacceptable. Maybe half a dozen more who said so before the interview stage. I've had twice as many interviewers who didn't care... maybe after quizzing me a bit more thoroughly. In five years of work I've maintained an average 50% yearly salary increase and expect to keep it up at least another two years before I start to level off.
Some people care about the paper, most I've met just want results.
Darron