While making me technically a criminal because I lent my copy of Alpha Centauri or the latest Britney Spears album to a friend, they really don't want to go after me.
No, your just a criminal for owning the latest Britney album.
The wonderful thing about the US signing treaties is that a treaty must be ratified by the Senate BEFORE the US will recognize our signature on the document as valid.
Because a treaty it ratifiyed by Congress it becomes law. There is no difference between legislation and a treaty once it has been through congress.
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Read it here. Apparently 3dfx has a good chance to win that 1998 multi-texturing case and nVidia is attempting a weak move to get it settled by forcing some cross licensing ploy. I say weak because they are trying to use a DMA patent on cards/chips that have been out for over a year now (voodoo3). Seems like a last ditch effort to me.
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I concur. I can't stand her, she is a hippocrite and thinks that everyone is little children that can't take care of themselves.
Case in point, he has a permit to carry a concealed weapon (read gun), yet is fighting tooth and nail to make sure that no one else has to right to own a gun, much less carry one concealed. Now, I don't mean to start a gun control thread, but this is just an example of how double faced she is.
Maybe he's concluded that the recording industry deceived and used him to get DCMA...
Or it could be like the article says and that those 20,000,000 napster users (read votes) have him and his collegues scared. Some people may feel that RIAA and MPAA bought the DMCA, but when it comes down to it, people and not companies vote for politicians. Considering the widespread use of Napster, it may be enough to open up some eyes if it is taken away to what is going on and change a few senate seats.
Well, I think the whole thing is moot. The only one with the authority to say wheather or no Deker was a replicant is Philip K. Dick. Seeing how he is dead the debate can go on. Just ignore Scott's ramblings and think what you wan to think.
I wonder why NASA dosn't do something like this. They are always a few generations behind in using CPU's since they have to test them over a period of years to see if they will survie in space. This sounds like a cheap (for NASA) way to get more horsepower out of a CPU. Best part is, space is pretty cold as is so I don't think they have to worry about materials evaporating into space.
Yea, I did some lookking up on this. From AT&T website, (here) it says, The suit began in 1974 and was settled in January 1982 when AT&T agreed to divest itself of the wholly owned Bell operating companies that provided local exchange service. It goes on to say that the company was officialy divested on January 1, 1984. So even then it took 2 years from a settlement date for the actual break up to happen. MS has a while yet.
I would expect it to go longer than that as long as MS is willing to fight it. IIRC AT&T was found to be a monopoly in the mid 70's and it took untill 1984 for them to be broken up. Nope, this will be along time coming. The question is, when MS is eventually broken up will it matter? Computers and software can change a lot in that time. In 1980 IBM was the "monopoly". Fast forward to 1995 it is MS. Who will it be in 2010???
You don't have to get AT&T wireless. There are a ton of wireless provider out there. Hell, you don't even have to get their cable. Get a DSS system. Costs less than cable too (I did the math for me and it is cheaper I just live in an apt and can't get it). Regular phone, well, you will still have the LEC for that and any LD provider of your choice. This is about giving you options. Something that you really don't have now. That stop att site is trying to prevent you from chosing. It is not 1 provider being forced down your throat like you seem to think it is.
I also had a look at the web site. I find it curious that the decide to put up a quote by Vinton Cerf. He currently works for MCI (AT&T main competitor) and is defianly biased against AT&T. I wouldn't expect him to say anything nice about AT&T, so I question their motives in posting it. Is their position so weak? The link is here. I wouldn't be surprised it some local bell companies or ISP's afraid of competition are behind this web site. With that quote I really can't give them any credibility.
It is my understaing that they created Unix to run the 5ESS switch. I doubt that it would have ever been "squashed". The 5ESS switch is a very big circuit switched piece of hardware capabled of handling many thousands of phone calls at the same time. IIRC, it was also the first softwarebased switch (no mechanical switching).
Besides Unix, they also created the transistor (when the Lucent Bell Labs were part of AT&T back in the day) and laser, IIRC. This is a good thing.
The person who's account was suspended may have felt that discrimination is the main issue.
I went back and read my ISP's service aggrement and found this nugget: You may have additional rights under certain laws (such as consumer laws) which do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, or the exclusion or limitation of certain damages. If these laws apply, our exclusions or limitations may not apply to you.
What this means to me is that even though the users content was attracting the DoS attack, their may be laws that prevent them from just dropping their business. Like the example given in the news post, your right to refuse business only goes so far. You cannot refuse businees to someone base on race, ethnicity and religion. I think that civil rights would "out rank" whatever the ISP says. All the person needs is a lawyer to work that angle and sue the ISP.
>Perhaps not, but I wonder how many other potential customers this guy has turned off
Probably not many at all. The on-line audience that would see his e-mails is a very small number, but the most vocal. They certainly talk up a storm, but constitute a small percentage of their sales. Don't believe me? Look at the phenomenon of "Deer Hunter" and "Who Want to Be a Millionaire?". Those are the people that make or break a product and keep more hardcore game titles like "StarCraft" and "Half-Life" on the top ten lists over a year after their release.
From your first link (http://www.cpsr.org/program/UCITA/ucita-fact.html) the MPAA is listed as against the UCITA law. This is interesting, the MPAA our friends in this respect? When you consider that the law applies to computer software and multimedia products, of which DVD's could be considered, it is refreshing to see the MPAA against it. If Apogee's claim was enforceable then the MPAA could take a similar stand against bad movie reviews too.
I really doubt that the UCITA law would be able to disallow anyone from printing/posting a bad review of a game out there. Posters in this group seem to forget that this would also affect some very big print/tv news services with enough deep pockets to go to bat for free speech.
This is not true at all. I am a programmer in the telecom industry. I have seen several coworkers move on to other companies in a blink of an eye. They are snapped up in a second. These people are not spring chickens, they have over 20+ years experience each. There is one friend of mine who never went to college, just kinda worked his way trough the company into analyst and testing postions and is doing pretty well for himself. He took an early retirement offer from the company about 2 years ago and has not looked back. He is closer to 60 than 50 (don't forget no college).
The moral of this story, it is all about experience. What you did on your last job is more important than how old (or young) you are and what college you graduated from.
There is a game out there called Mindrover. It is pretty cool and would seem like programming for the kids. Hell, you would probably like it. It only runs on Windows, which is why there hasn't been any/. story about it (at least to my knowledge). Check it out here.
I was not saying that looking glass put out krap. I guess I failed to articulate that. The origional post discussed game development jobs as a haven. Valve has gotten a lot of good press, well deserved BTW, and could be viewed as one of those safe havens. My point was that for every valve (a safe haven) there are more places like head games (krap!) (a hell hole, reference a letter to the editor in PC Gamer several months back). Looking glass, while a great developer was in trouble and could not be called a safe haven.
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OT: Yes, I spell krap with a k, I like it better that way.
I never pictured the game industry as a haven for programmers. For every valve out there, there has to be a dozen smaller shops that make bad games and turn out krap. Why wouly anyone want to work at head games? Everyone hears about Id and their Ferraries but forget about companies like LG.
It is my understanding that Eidos was their publisher. If anyone was in a position to help looking glass it would have been Eidos. However, they are in a bit of financial trouble themselves (I dunno for sure, just guessing by the stock price). They also took on that Ion Storm albatross, so if you want to blame anyone blame them.
This is what I have been wondering, and do not know if it has been discussed on some other posts. To use use your analogy, where does the shoe end and the sock begin? What belongs in an OS? Take the NT server for instance, should a http server be included? If I am going to use my server as a DB server then I don't need the http stuff. So, if they put all their server stuff with the applications company the OS company will be dwarfed. I doubt that it would help much at all.
I would suggest that the break up be 3 companies as follows, 1 for the OS's and dev tools, another for server products (backoffice, proxy, web, exchange, etc) and another for everything else, IE, Office, games, publications, hardware, etc. That sounds like a better solution to me.
I wonder if it really matters. What I mean is that the general populous is pretty dumb and have a hard enough time getting games to run on wintel. Aside from/. type users, how many people can developers expect to run linux. Look at what has happened lately, Lionhead says that they will develop for the console first, and the PC second, and Epic switching to focus soley on DirectX. With the market really small for linux at home, why would developers port games to linux?
I don't think that the CEO gambled on the IPO, what I think happend was that he looked at it as his golden monkey. He came in to the company and wanted to cash in on the exuberant stock market so he could get his $1 billion. He didn't care about the business at all, he didn't want to acutally grow it.
Underneath the user interface is the Linux operating system. TiVo Inc. in Sunnyvale, Calif., customized the operating system to speed up the real-time tasks it needed and started shipping Linux deeply embedded in the box. The TiVo user is none the wiser, because all the Linux calls are hidden from view.
Doesn't this mean that tivo has to release the source? They modified a version of linux and then shipped it. Is the source available? What am I missing here?
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No, your just a criminal for owning the latest Britney album.
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Because a treaty it ratifiyed by Congress it becomes law. There is no difference between legislation and a treaty once it has been through congress. CP
Read it here. Apparently 3dfx has a good chance to win that 1998 multi-texturing case and nVidia is attempting a weak move to get it settled by forcing some cross licensing ploy. I say weak because they are trying to use a DMA patent on cards/chips that have been out for over a year now (voodoo3). Seems like a last ditch effort to me. CP
Case in point, he has a permit to carry a concealed weapon (read gun), yet is fighting tooth and nail to make sure that no one else has to right to own a gun, much less carry one concealed. Now, I don't mean to start a gun control thread, but this is just an example of how double faced she is.
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Or it could be like the article says and that those 20,000,000 napster users (read votes) have him and his collegues scared. Some people may feel that RIAA and MPAA bought the DMCA, but when it comes down to it, people and not companies vote for politicians. Considering the widespread use of Napster, it may be enough to open up some eyes if it is taken away to what is going on and change a few senate seats.
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Besides Unix, they also created the transistor (when the Lucent Bell Labs were part of AT&T back in the day) and laser, IIRC. This is a good thing.
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I went back and read my ISP's service aggrement and found this nugget: You may have additional rights under certain laws (such as consumer laws) which do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, or the exclusion or limitation of certain damages. If these laws apply, our exclusions or limitations may not apply to you.
What this means to me is that even though the users content was attracting the DoS attack, their may be laws that prevent them from just dropping their business. Like the example given in the news post, your right to refuse business only goes so far. You cannot refuse businees to someone base on race, ethnicity and religion. I think that civil rights would "out rank" whatever the ISP says. All the person needs is a lawyer to work that angle and sue the ISP.
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Probably not many at all. The on-line audience that would see his e-mails is a very small number, but the most vocal. They certainly talk up a storm, but constitute a small percentage of their sales. Don't believe me? Look at the phenomenon of "Deer Hunter" and "Who Want to Be a Millionaire?". Those are the people that make or break a product and keep more hardcore game titles like "StarCraft" and "Half-Life" on the top ten lists over a year after their release.
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I really doubt that the UCITA law would be able to disallow anyone from printing/posting a bad review of a game out there. Posters in this group seem to forget that this would also affect some very big print/tv news services with enough deep pockets to go to bat for free speech.
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The moral of this story, it is all about experience. What you did on your last job is more important than how old (or young) you are and what college you graduated from.
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OT: Yes, I spell krap with a k, I like it better that way.
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I would suggest that the break up be 3 companies as follows, 1 for the OS's and dev tools, another for server products (backoffice, proxy, web, exchange, etc) and another for everything else, IE, Office, games, publications, hardware, etc. That sounds like a better solution to me.
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Underneath the user interface is the Linux operating system. TiVo Inc. in Sunnyvale, Calif., customized the operating system to speed up the real-time tasks it needed and started shipping Linux deeply embedded in the box. The TiVo user is none the wiser, because all the Linux calls are hidden from view.
Doesn't this mean that tivo has to release the source? They modified a version of linux and then shipped it. Is the source available? What am I missing here?
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