...if you view their goals and their audience accurately.
I argue that they didn't want to stop file sharing. Or they did want it, but didn't expect to succeeded at such an endeavor.
The purpose of this was to make filesharing seem like a small scale threat that could easily be dealt with by a campaign of lawsuits. Most of the investors in the RIAA have no idea how the recording industry works let alone why the internet is such a giant threat to it.
These lawsuits were a smokescreen to stop shareholders from realizing the record label's business model had failed. Any survival at all would involve massively reduced profit margins. If they had realized that, shareholders would have bailed from the recording industry en masse.
The goal of this legal campaign was to buy a few extra years for the the Hillary Rosens and the Jack Valentis of the world to quietly divest themselves of recording industry stock.
So good job guys! May you successfully avoid shareholder lawsuits!
The money to pay the incompetent public school teachers still comes out of your pockets. It would be like paying tax to microsoft so they could provide the public service of making computer programs. What kind of quality do you think they would produce if people didnt even have to choose to give them money?
Separated from the consequences of failing to compete, ANY entity will quickly devolve into laziness and mediocrity. This is seen anywhere the government goes and funds programs directly with taxpayer dollars.
The solution to this problem is to only fund the parents of the children and let them choose how to spend it. If the public schools cant attract students and their dollars, then they will simply wither and die. Tenure kills value, so tenure would be the first to go.
Three points: 1) The treaty, even if it somehow got 100% implemented against the wishes of many, would theoretically reduce world temperatures 0.1C over the next century. This is completely unmeasureable, especially when viewed against decade to decade fluctuations in world climate. Only 200 years ago we emerged from a mini-ice-age. Remember frozen Holland in the Bruegel paintings? 0.1C is statistical noise. Kyoto basically has no measureable goals or objective criteria with which to judge success or failure.
2) Most of the countries which will do the heaviest polluting over the coming years are not counted under Kyoto. Kyoto amounts to a tax on carbon emissions levied against wealthy industrial countries but not poorer ones like india or china that burn shitloads of coal. It would have hurt the US both in terms of the cost of manufacturing competitiveness and in terms of jobs lost. This amounts to a transfer of wealth from wealthy countries to poor ones.
3)Environmentalism in general is an attempt to subvert the sanctity of property rights in western society in the intersts of "protecting mother earth." How many times have you heard about ranchers losing their homes because someone found a rare species of lizard or flower or moss on their acreage? How many people in FL lost their homes for the crime of living too close to the everglades? How many national forests are built from formerly private land snatched through eminent domain? Do you think that using greenhouse gasses as an excuse to levy exorbitant taxes on wealthy countries is somehow more justifiable than just stealing it outright? Do you think this is an accident or perhaps a real attempt to subvert our ownership based society?
I was planning on creating an army of giant half human, half goat warriors that would obey my every command. I would use them in an elaborate plot to rob a bank and hold the UN hostage. Then again, maybe the plan is worth going ahead with even if I cant patent it.
Still, as long as it isnt part human, your chances of prevailing in the patent office seem pretty good. Which means the giant radioactive bees are definitely good to go.
First off, the root password for the main application server is a straight alpha password that hasnt changed in about 5 years and is known by most of the operators and developers.
Second, there are trust relationships between most of the hardware in the company such that gaining root on one server effectively grants root on all of them.
Thirdly, many of the important infrastructure pieces (routers and stuff) have been given identical admin passwords that are well known (this was at least recently changed for the routers).
Fourth, much of the software we use to perform infrastructure functions is hopefully out of date, such that there are many published root level vulnerabilities for nearly every service running on our network.
And we are a medical device company under FDA regulation. No audit has ever turned up a single discrepency. How's that for reassuring?
We need a survey that lets people enter in stuff that they decided NOT to buy because they downloaded it and found out that it sucked. I'll start.
Alien vs Predator (PC). Single player was poorly designed and tedious, multiplayer was built on netcode that looks stolen from gnutella and doesnt scale well past 4 players. Similar things could be said about the slightly less crappy sequel. Natural Selection (free mod for half life) is about 10 billion times better than AvP if you rate solely on gameplay.
For every game that is released and well supported (think halflife/cs/etc) there are dozens of games that get released with maybe half a dozen multiplayer maps and then forgotten by the publishers. EA, are you listening? I will never buy your games again as long as you continue to release your bug fixes to old products as new 40 dollar games. When you hurt your customers, we stop paying for your products. And we remember for a long time. With games like Half life or quake that remain supported for years after their release, why should we tolerate a 3 month lifecycle for bug fixing and map making?
For every Spiderman that gets released in the theaters there are a dozen Daredevils, Catwomans and Chronicles of Riddick. Do you expect us to pay to see obviously bad movies?
The maturation of microsoft's products in the late 90s lead to microsoft developers adding stupid bells and whistles (like extensive VB programming support in all MS products, yay viruses) that didnt add value to the software. Microsoft SHOULD have entered the maintenance phase with all of their desktop products about 5 years ago. There are probably 10-20k developers sitting around performing development work at MSFT that will not drive further sales.
Meanwhile, Open source has slowly been catching up to where microsoft was 5-10 years ago. This would ordinarily be a devastating disadvantage, even for a software package that doesnt need to make money but the problem is that when microsoft's products matured, they also became commoditized- since microsoft's products havent become any more compelling in the past 7 years, microsofts existing products compete with the old ones and 7 year old open source software competes successfully as well.
The end result of this is the "cost cutting" measures that microsoft is undertaking now. It will mean a lot less "new development" for microsoft products, and a lot more outsourced maintenance contracts to fix bugs in existing ones. The real cause to blame for unemployed microsoft developers is microsofts fear of breaking into new markets and trying different things to make use of those developers. They would rather defend the rotting carcass of Office and Windows than go off boldly in search of fresh meat.
hahahahahaha watch out for the next version of msie
I think firefox is already fine the way it is in terms of bells and whistles. If you guys want to create the next killer app for machine learning, make it a separate product. I should be able to get my firefox bug fixes without being forced to beta test your next science project.
For the existing firefox: I would kill for properly working navigation keys though. For example, when I hit the Home key, it doesnt take me to the top of the current document, and End doesnt take me to the end of the document. PgUp, PgDn and the up and down arrows dont scroll the document- they move the cursor within the document (why does it even have a cursor? you cant edit it). I dont understand why the brower cant just catch those keystrokes and make use of them like msie did.
The point (which you have missed) is that piracy is a straw man and has almost never had a significant effect upon the software industry. Sure, commercial piracy has (using a factory in singapore to churn out fake MS office boxes for example), but not the type of piracy that they are pointing to (warez dewdz/d00dz/dudes). The central difference is that the vast majority of warez community members are NOT doing it because they need the software or because they receive any benefit at all. They are merely collecting something obscure and useless, much like a stamp collector, butterfly collector, etc. The most important distinction to make is that they are NOT lost sales. The only lost sales that result from piracy are those that might have bought a game to satisfy their curiosity, but decided not to when they downloaded it and realized it was crap. Piracy is just a quicker way of spreading "word of mouth"- only bad software need fear piracy.
Piracy has always existed and companies with compelling products have always made extravagant profits. Doom was pirated like CRAZY and had no copy protection or spyware whatsoever. Yet all who had a hand in making it are wealthy beyond the dreams of avarice. Photoshop has always been pirated more than it has been bought, but those who have a business reason for using photoshop have always found a way to purchase it.
Yes and this is the business model I follow. I get paid for my development efforts up front. If you are skilled engineer you dont work in a ford factory assembling the automotive equivalent of microsoft word. You also dont change oil, the automotive equivalent of being a consultant or a maintenance programmer.
The skilled engineer builds custom software for companies with deep pockets. The automotive equivalent of having a shop that builds race cars and does custom fabrication.
And this software I make is in turn sold to other companies with deep pockets. They like the assurance that a company will fix bugs if they find any and provide them with expert support on their setups. You dont get that with microsoft.
As I understand it from reading texts in the basement of the university library, the bomb is actually 2 foci of an ellipsoid with an interior reflective to both neutrons and radiation. At one focus is a fission bomb. At the other is a sphere of lithium deuteride with tritium injected when the bomb is armed. The tritium is there to donate lots of neutrons I beleive. The goal is to dump a lot of radiation (heat) and neutrons into the LiDe so that fusion begins happening.
Obviously being a weapons researcher in the 60s would have been beneficial to my understanding of the process, but I wasnt even a fetus back then lol age discrimination. From what I can tell the only thing that got significantly more advanced (last few decades) in terms of weapon design was the guidance systems. Most of the warhead designs that are published (I dont see why they would lie about this) havent really changed since the 70s.
There are a whole bunch of other p2p services available which are much harder to shut down, most prominently because the servers are outside the US. Soon there will be encrypted networks to replace the current crop of kazaa replacements.
Any commercial p2p effort is going to involve (in addition to the aforementioned encryption) significant non-infringing uses first and then add p2p later. Work is already underway lol hint.
The real reason software is losing money: Because software companies with mature products keep adding useless features to drive the upgrade cycle, not realizing that improved support for virus propogation is not a feature most people want in Word.
Honestly, Windows and Office were mature products somewhere back in the 97-2000 stretch. The past 4-7 years have seen most of microsoft's products develop lots of useless bells and whistles and lots of security holes and bugs. Why pay the MSFT tax when linux and staroffice are free and provide most of the features you really need. Shit, Firefox rocks just because it does simple browing really well and DOESNT run ActiveX controls or allow popups. Zing, like 100 security holes and annoyances removed in an instant.
This is why microsoft is: -releasing a stripped down version of XP at a lower cost to compete with Linux (read, lower our prices because people dont find our new products any more compelling than our old ones that they already have) tech.veolzie.com (off google) -reducing costs (read- laying off thousands of their programmers and sticking to bug fixing and maintenance of their existing stuff) www.newsfactor.com (off google)
Tritium isnt used for fusion bombs. Lithium Deuteride is a solid at room temperature and nearly as efficient. It is also much more plentiful and easy to store.
The CAM-POT release was reencoded last week (the day after) as a single disk divx. Quality isnt great but its small and its not like you will miss much of the movie. It was rereleased as CAM-POT.recode.DivX.OTR.avi. Dont have the hash handy but those who want it already know where to get it.
There will be genuine dvd rips in a few weeks as the cannes copies leak over to the other networks and get reencoded. I dont feel there is much urgency involved in getting this out in uber high quality.
Most linux boxes today are working as web/application servers. Most enterprise apps these days are being written entirely in java/jsp and using web services. The only notable exception to this is the microsoft small business market which uses stuff like IIS/ASP. So yeah, java on linux makes perfect sense in the business programming world, although not in the way most linux geeks think of programming (desktop).
You get 90% of the prettyness of a windows app, lower memory and cpu requirements, no deployment costs, no upgrade costs beyond developing the upgrade and both the platform and the language are free. Obviously, using something like websphere costs money, but that is optional.
options are created in the early stages of the company's life, before it goes public. Options granted to employees come out of this pool. The early investors (VCs and the like) take the dilution hit, which is something they all argue over at the point at which it happens. Since they (the VCs) recognize the value of being able to give out stock options, they usually approve a reasonably sized pool from which to grant.
Dilution from options is a much smaller scale dilution than that which occurs from a 2nd and 3rd round of funding. That is usually what the VCs bitch about.
the same "paper is worthless" approach could be applied to four year colleges and even graduate schools if you wanted to be really harsh. It really depends on whether the job consists of performing the skill the cert measures. CCNE is a good cert because the people with it usually hold jobs of wiring networks and the CCNE is widely perceived to be difficult.
The real problem is that many hiring managers misunderstand what they are hiring people to do. When someone hires me, I will either fix business problems or generate revenue by helping to develop products. There are an enormous number of skills that go into being an good engineer and a good project manager (even if you are just managing yourself). Whether or not I happen to have a Java Programmers Certification is irrelevant- it only shows I know how to use the syntax of java (an important starting point for a junior programmer, but not for a senior, an architect or a manager). Many of the factors that determine how good an engineer is are difficult to measure except by giving them projects and seeing how they do.
This is probably why so many engineering jobs come through referrals. Nearly any time I didnt have a specific engineering manager pushing to have me hired, I would end up having HR ask me irrelevant questions about whether I could use development environment a or b, or having some junior programmer try to ask me trick questions about using arrays. When someone you know is a good engineer says "this guy I know is a really solid engineer" it goes a long way towards you hiring them.
Similarly, many people erroneously assume that because someone has an MBA they will actually know how to run a business or even manage their own ass. The real world supplies ample evidence to the contrary.
You fend the mugger off with the free arm. I dont know about you, but all the handguns I ever used could be operated with one hand.
And say that the mugger stabs you a few times in the arm or in some non-vital area of your body. Big deal. He is going to be dead and I will go to the hospital. Bernie Goetz handled half a dozen muggers just fine with a six shot 38 caliber revolver. Unfortunately he was stupid and didnt finish them off, so he had to go to jail because of NYCs gun laws (and because he foolishly turned himself in). And then he got sued by the surviving muggers. NYC was an interesting place to live back then.
Also, it doesnt take long to pull out a gun and flick the safety off. Its like 1-2 seconds at the most and then game over, you win.
Sorry but after Bernie Goetz and after being mugged myself as a JHS student and known many other mugging victims I would not submit to that sort of horseshit again. Fighting back works and it works well. Ask any woman who has fended off a rapist by fighting back. Or better yet, ask any woman that didnt fight back.
Take martial arts classes, take gun safety classes, study the law, practice often with the gun you will carry. Fight hard and fight dirty when the time comes. Poke eyes, kick groins, stab with pens, dont hesitate to shoot if you get the opportunity. The only person who can be responsible for your safety is you. The cops are just there to clean up after everything is over, they dont have a vested interest in you living or dying.
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3COM is already basically the US arm of HuaWei Electronics in China. All of the R&D has left the company, so has the manufacturing, etc. All that is left is a brand name and a trademarked logo, some IP and some bean counters.
I exaggerate, but only slightly. 3COM isnt dead, but it isnt really a company in the sense of the word that Cisco is.
Rich people dont have to live in rental properties with poor security or no security. Rich people can hire guards. Rich people can circumvent gun control laws (all the politicians and wealthy connected people in NY and LA have concealed handguns, which is tehnically allowed, thanks to loopholes which most people cant use).
Even the the moderately wealthy (upper-middle-working class I guess you could say) have far fewer crime problems than the poor and working class do. We own homes with land around them and fences around that. We live in neighborhoods that the police patrol far more diligently. Have you ever tried to park in a residential neighborhood in Atherton in the bay area with a car costing less than $50k? The police will be all over you in the blink of an eye demanding identification and your reasons for being there.
In short, the urban poor and working class need guns the most because they are the most likely to be victims of violent crime. Sadly, they are the ones most frequently denied legal access to firearms.
If you are unarmed and surrounded, a gun and a knife are equally deadly. If you are armed and can defend yourself, you stand a much better chance of surviving if YOU have a gun. Its not about making the criminal's guns illegal, its about making the gun you defend yourself with legal. See the distinction? Its a very important one.
THE RATE AT WHICH CRIMES ARE COMMMITTED WITH A PARTICULAR WEAPON IS COMPLETELY IRRELEVANT. A knife murder is just as bad as a handgun murder. A knife robbery is just as bad as a handgun robbery. The victim does not care what propelled a piece of metal into his vital organs. These are not difficult concepts for even a child to master.
Hypothetical situation: Lets say you live on a tropical island: Further assume that 100% of all violent crimes are committed with machetes. Being a responsible legislature, you take the obvious course of banning all machetes. Violent crime goes up sharply, but the percentage of crimes committed with machetes goes down. People who pushed for the machete ban pat themselves on the back for having such an impact on machete violence. People who subsequently got robbed or murdered with non-machete weapons curse their good luck. More pointless bans on other machete-like implements are passed into law, with similar non-useful effects.
This is the exact situation that keeps playing out again and again with the gun control crowd. Guns are taken away from law abiding citizens and crime goes up because criminals (guess what?) arent law abiding, by definition. Instead the police are stretched thin defending a disarmed populace and crime skyrockets while the working class suffers. Fortunately most places here are not so gullible as to beleive that gun control is a success when they see crime going up as a result.
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...if you view their goals and their audience accurately.
I argue that they didn't want to stop file sharing. Or they did want it, but didn't expect to succeeded at such an endeavor.
The purpose of this was to make filesharing seem like a small scale threat that could easily be dealt with by a campaign of lawsuits. Most of the investors in the RIAA have no idea how the recording industry works let alone why the internet is such a giant threat to it.
These lawsuits were a smokescreen to stop shareholders from realizing the record label's business model had failed. Any survival at all would involve massively reduced profit margins. If they had realized that, shareholders would have bailed from the recording industry en masse.
The goal of this legal campaign was to buy a few extra years for the the Hillary Rosens and the Jack Valentis of the world to quietly divest themselves of recording industry stock.
So good job guys! May you successfully avoid shareholder lawsuits!
The money to pay the incompetent public school teachers still comes out of your pockets. It would be like paying tax to microsoft so they could provide the public service of making computer programs. What kind of quality do you think they would produce if people didnt even have to choose to give them money?
Separated from the consequences of failing to compete, ANY entity will quickly devolve into laziness and mediocrity. This is seen anywhere the government goes and funds programs directly with taxpayer dollars.
The solution to this problem is to only fund the parents of the children and let them choose how to spend it. If the public schools cant attract students and their dollars, then they will simply wither and die. Tenure kills value, so tenure would be the first to go.
Three points:
1) The treaty, even if it somehow got 100% implemented against the wishes of many, would theoretically reduce world temperatures 0.1C over the next century. This is completely unmeasureable, especially when viewed against decade to decade fluctuations in world climate. Only 200 years ago we emerged from a mini-ice-age. Remember frozen Holland in the Bruegel paintings? 0.1C is statistical noise. Kyoto basically has no measureable goals or objective criteria with which to judge success or failure.
2) Most of the countries which will do the heaviest polluting over the coming years are not counted under Kyoto. Kyoto amounts to a tax on carbon emissions levied against wealthy industrial countries but not poorer ones like india or china that burn shitloads of coal. It would have hurt the US both in terms of the cost of manufacturing competitiveness and in terms of jobs lost. This amounts to a transfer of wealth from wealthy countries to poor ones.
3)Environmentalism in general is an attempt to subvert the sanctity of property rights in western society in the intersts of "protecting mother earth." How many times have you heard about ranchers losing their homes because someone found a rare species of lizard or flower or moss on their acreage? How many people in FL lost their homes for the crime of living too close to the everglades? How many national forests are built from formerly private land snatched through eminent domain? Do you think that using greenhouse gasses as an excuse to levy exorbitant taxes on wealthy countries is somehow more justifiable than just stealing it outright? Do you think this is an accident or perhaps a real attempt to subvert our ownership based society?
I was planning on creating an army of giant half human, half goat warriors that would obey my every command. I would use them in an elaborate plot to rob a bank and hold the UN hostage. Then again, maybe the plan is worth going ahead with even if I cant patent it.
Still, as long as it isnt part human, your chances of prevailing in the patent office seem pretty good. Which means the giant radioactive bees are definitely good to go.
Dominos is much more fun to play when you know someone else wont come in and knock them over before it's time.
Where to begin?
First off, the root password for the main application server is a straight alpha password that hasnt changed in about 5 years and is known by most of the operators and developers.
Second, there are trust relationships between most of the hardware in the company such that gaining root on one server effectively grants root on all of them.
Thirdly, many of the important infrastructure pieces (routers and stuff) have been given identical admin passwords that are well known (this was at least recently changed for the routers).
Fourth, much of the software we use to perform infrastructure functions is hopefully out of date, such that there are many published root level vulnerabilities for nearly every service running on our network.
And we are a medical device company under FDA regulation. No audit has ever turned up a single discrepency. How's that for reassuring?
What I really use p2p for! Read on.
We need a survey that lets people enter in stuff that they decided NOT to buy because they downloaded it and found out that it sucked. I'll start.
Alien vs Predator (PC). Single player was poorly designed and tedious, multiplayer was built on netcode that looks stolen from gnutella and doesnt scale well past 4 players. Similar things could be said about the slightly less crappy sequel. Natural Selection (free mod for half life) is about 10 billion times better than AvP if you rate solely on gameplay.
For every game that is released and well supported (think halflife/cs/etc) there are dozens of games that get released with maybe half a dozen multiplayer maps and then forgotten by the publishers. EA, are you listening? I will never buy your games again as long as you continue to release your bug fixes to old products as new 40 dollar games. When you hurt your customers, we stop paying for your products. And we remember for a long time. With games like Half life or quake that remain supported for years after their release, why should we tolerate a 3 month lifecycle for bug fixing and map making?
For every Spiderman that gets released in the theaters there are a dozen Daredevils, Catwomans and Chronicles of Riddick. Do you expect us to pay to see obviously bad movies?
The maturation of microsoft's products in the late 90s lead to microsoft developers adding stupid bells and whistles (like extensive VB programming support in all MS products, yay viruses) that didnt add value to the software. Microsoft SHOULD have entered the maintenance phase with all of their desktop products about 5 years ago. There are probably 10-20k developers sitting around performing development work at MSFT that will not drive further sales.
Meanwhile, Open source has slowly been catching up to where microsoft was 5-10 years ago. This would ordinarily be a devastating disadvantage, even for a software package that doesnt need to make money but the problem is that when microsoft's products matured, they also became commoditized- since microsoft's products havent become any more compelling in the past 7 years, microsofts existing products compete with the old ones and 7 year old open source software competes successfully as well.
The end result of this is the "cost cutting" measures that microsoft is undertaking now. It will mean a lot less "new development" for microsoft products, and a lot more outsourced maintenance contracts to fix bugs in existing ones. The real cause to blame for unemployed microsoft developers is microsofts fear of breaking into new markets and trying different things to make use of those developers. They would rather defend the rotting carcass of Office and Windows than go off boldly in search of fresh meat.
I am retard!
I turned that option on for no reason that I can remember right now. Anyways, I now have sweet MSIE type screen scrolling.
Thanks!
hahahahahaha watch out for the next version of msie
I think firefox is already fine the way it is in terms of bells and whistles. If you guys want to create the next killer app for machine learning, make it a separate product. I should be able to get my firefox bug fixes without being forced to beta test your next science project.
For the existing firefox:
I would kill for properly working navigation keys though. For example, when I hit the Home key, it doesnt take me to the top of the current document, and End doesnt take me to the end of the document. PgUp, PgDn and the up and down arrows dont scroll the document- they move the cursor within the document (why does it even have a cursor? you cant edit it). I dont understand why the brower cant just catch those keystrokes and make use of them like msie did.
The point (which you have missed) is that piracy is a straw man and has almost never had a significant effect upon the software industry. Sure, commercial piracy has (using a factory in singapore to churn out fake MS office boxes for example), but not the type of piracy that they are pointing to (warez dewdz/d00dz/dudes). The central difference is that the vast majority of warez community members are NOT doing it because they need the software or because they receive any benefit at all. They are merely collecting something obscure and useless, much like a stamp collector, butterfly collector, etc. The most important distinction to make is that they are NOT lost sales. The only lost sales that result from piracy are those that might have bought a game to satisfy their curiosity, but decided not to when they downloaded it and realized it was crap. Piracy is just a quicker way of spreading "word of mouth"- only bad software need fear piracy.
Piracy has always existed and companies with compelling products have always made extravagant profits. Doom was pirated like CRAZY and had no copy protection or spyware whatsoever. Yet all who had a hand in making it are wealthy beyond the dreams of avarice. Photoshop has always been pirated more than it has been bought, but those who have a business reason for using photoshop have always found a way to purchase it.
Yeah, but until groups start releasing stuff on them and boards pop up to propogate hashes, it is kind of a moot point.
Yes and this is the business model I follow. I get paid for my development efforts up front. If you are skilled engineer you dont work in a ford factory assembling the automotive equivalent of microsoft word. You also dont change oil, the automotive equivalent of being a consultant or a maintenance programmer.
The skilled engineer builds custom software for companies with deep pockets. The automotive equivalent of having a shop that builds race cars and does custom fabrication.
And this software I make is in turn sold to other companies with deep pockets. They like the assurance that a company will fix bugs if they find any and provide them with expert support on their setups. You dont get that with microsoft.
Sorry I meant as the primary reactant.
As I understand it from reading texts in the basement of the university library, the bomb is actually 2 foci of an ellipsoid with an interior reflective to both neutrons and radiation. At one focus is a fission bomb. At the other is a sphere of lithium deuteride with tritium injected when the bomb is armed. The tritium is there to donate lots of neutrons I beleive. The goal is to dump a lot of radiation (heat) and neutrons into the LiDe so that fusion begins happening.
Obviously being a weapons researcher in the 60s would have been beneficial to my understanding of the process, but I wasnt even a fetus back then lol age discrimination. From what I can tell the only thing that got significantly more advanced (last few decades) in terms of weapon design was the guidance systems. Most of the warhead designs that are published (I dont see why they would lie about this) havent really changed since the 70s.
Kazaa died 2-3 years ago lol return of the fedi.
There are a whole bunch of other p2p services available which are much harder to shut down, most prominently because the servers are outside the US. Soon there will be encrypted networks to replace the current crop of kazaa replacements.
Any commercial p2p effort is going to involve (in addition to the aforementioned encryption) significant non-infringing uses first and then add p2p later. Work is already underway lol hint.
The real reason software is losing money:
Because software companies with mature products keep adding useless features to drive the upgrade cycle, not realizing that improved support for virus propogation is not a feature most people want in Word.
Honestly, Windows and Office were mature products somewhere back in the 97-2000 stretch. The past 4-7 years have seen most of microsoft's products develop lots of useless bells and whistles and lots of security holes and bugs. Why pay the MSFT tax when linux and staroffice are free and provide most of the features you really need. Shit, Firefox rocks just because it does simple browing really well and DOESNT run ActiveX controls or allow popups. Zing, like 100 security holes and annoyances removed in an instant.
This is why microsoft is:
-releasing a stripped down version of XP at a lower cost to compete with Linux (read, lower our prices because people dont find our new products any more compelling than our old ones that they already have)
tech.veolzie.com (off google)
-reducing costs (read- laying off thousands of their programmers and sticking to bug fixing and maintenance of their existing stuff)
www.newsfactor.com (off google)
Tritium isnt used for fusion bombs. Lithium Deuteride is a solid at room temperature and nearly as efficient. It is also much more plentiful and easy to store.
The CAM-POT release was reencoded last week (the day after) as a single disk divx. Quality isnt great but its small and its not like you will miss much of the movie. It was rereleased as CAM-POT.recode.DivX.OTR.avi. Dont have the hash handy but those who want it already know where to get it.
There will be genuine dvd rips in a few weeks as the cannes copies leak over to the other networks and get reencoded. I dont feel there is much urgency involved in getting this out in uber high quality.
Most linux boxes today are working as web/application servers.
Most enterprise apps these days are being written entirely in java/jsp and using web services. The only notable exception to this is the microsoft small business market which uses stuff like IIS/ASP.
So yeah, java on linux makes perfect sense in the business programming world, although not in the way most linux geeks think of programming (desktop).
You get 90% of the prettyness of a windows app, lower memory and cpu requirements, no deployment costs, no upgrade costs beyond developing the upgrade and both the platform and the language are free. Obviously, using something like websphere costs money, but that is optional.
options are created in the early stages of the company's life, before it goes public. Options granted to employees come out of this pool. The early investors (VCs and the like) take the dilution hit, which is something they all argue over at the point at which it happens. Since they (the VCs) recognize the value of being able to give out stock options, they usually approve a reasonably sized pool from which to grant.
Dilution from options is a much smaller scale dilution than that which occurs from a 2nd and 3rd round of funding. That is usually what the VCs bitch about.
the same "paper is worthless" approach could be applied to four year colleges and even graduate schools if you wanted to be really harsh. It really depends on whether the job consists of performing the skill the cert measures. CCNE is a good cert because the people with it usually hold jobs of wiring networks and the CCNE is widely perceived to be difficult.
The real problem is that many hiring managers misunderstand what they are hiring people to do. When someone hires me, I will either fix business problems or generate revenue by helping to develop products. There are an enormous number of skills that go into being an good engineer and a good project manager (even if you are just managing yourself). Whether or not I happen to have a Java Programmers Certification is irrelevant- it only shows I know how to use the syntax of java (an important starting point for a junior programmer, but not for a senior, an architect or a manager). Many of the factors that determine how good an engineer is are difficult to measure except by giving them projects and seeing how they do.
This is probably why so many engineering jobs come through referrals. Nearly any time I didnt have a specific engineering manager pushing to have me hired, I would end up having HR ask me irrelevant questions about whether I could use development environment a or b, or having some junior programmer try to ask me trick questions about using arrays. When someone you know is a good engineer says "this guy I know is a really solid engineer" it goes a long way towards you hiring them.
Similarly, many people erroneously assume that because someone has an MBA they will actually know how to run a business or even manage their own ass. The real world supplies ample evidence to the contrary.
dunno when they applied for this patent, but I have seen this feature before plenty of times
You fend the mugger off with the free arm. I dont know about you, but all the handguns I ever used could be operated with one hand.
And say that the mugger stabs you a few times in the arm or in some non-vital area of your body. Big deal. He is going to be dead and I will go to the hospital. Bernie Goetz handled half a dozen muggers just fine with a six shot 38 caliber revolver. Unfortunately he was stupid and didnt finish them off, so he had to go to jail because of NYCs gun laws (and because he foolishly turned himself in). And then he got sued by the surviving muggers. NYC was an interesting place to live back then.
Also, it doesnt take long to pull out a gun and flick the safety off. Its like 1-2 seconds at the most and then game over, you win.
Sorry but after Bernie Goetz and after being mugged myself as a JHS student and known many other mugging victims I would not submit to that sort of horseshit again. Fighting back works and it works well. Ask any woman who has fended off a rapist by fighting back. Or better yet, ask any woman that didnt fight back.
Take martial arts classes, take gun safety classes, study the law, practice often with the gun you will carry. Fight hard and fight dirty when the time comes. Poke eyes, kick groins, stab with pens, dont hesitate to shoot if you get the opportunity. The only person who can be responsible for your safety is you. The cops are just there to clean up after everything is over, they dont have a vested interest in you living or dying.
3COM is already basically the US arm of HuaWei Electronics in China. All of the R&D has left the company, so has the manufacturing, etc. All that is left is a brand name and a trademarked logo, some IP and some bean counters.
I exaggerate, but only slightly. 3COM isnt dead, but it isnt really a company in the sense of the word that Cisco is.
Sorry for namecalling.
Rich people dont have to live in rental properties with poor security or no security. Rich people can hire guards. Rich people can circumvent gun control laws (all the politicians and wealthy connected people in NY and LA have concealed handguns, which is tehnically allowed, thanks to loopholes which most people cant use).
Even the the moderately wealthy (upper-middle-working class I guess you could say) have far fewer crime problems than the poor and working class do. We own homes with land around them and fences around that. We live in neighborhoods that the police patrol far more diligently. Have you ever tried to park in a residential neighborhood in Atherton in the bay area with a car costing less than $50k? The police will be all over you in the blink of an eye demanding identification and your reasons for being there.
In short, the urban poor and working class need guns the most because they are the most likely to be victims of violent crime. Sadly, they are the ones most frequently denied legal access to firearms.
If you are unarmed and surrounded, a gun and a knife are equally deadly. If you are armed and can defend yourself, you stand a much better chance of surviving if YOU have a gun. Its not about making the criminal's guns illegal, its about making the gun you defend yourself with legal. See the distinction? Its a very important one.
You fucking moron.
THE RATE AT WHICH CRIMES ARE COMMMITTED WITH A PARTICULAR WEAPON IS COMPLETELY IRRELEVANT. A knife murder is just as bad as a handgun murder. A knife robbery is just as bad as a handgun robbery. The victim does not care what propelled a piece of metal into his vital organs. These are not difficult concepts for even a child to master.
Hypothetical situation:
Lets say you live on a tropical island:
Further assume that 100% of all violent crimes are committed with machetes.
Being a responsible legislature, you take the obvious course of banning all machetes.
Violent crime goes up sharply, but the percentage of crimes committed with machetes goes down.
People who pushed for the machete ban pat themselves on the back for having such an impact on machete violence.
People who subsequently got robbed or murdered with non-machete weapons curse their good luck.
More pointless bans on other machete-like implements are passed into law, with similar non-useful effects.
This is the exact situation that keeps playing out again and again with the gun control crowd. Guns are taken away from law abiding citizens and crime goes up because criminals (guess what?) arent law abiding, by definition. Instead the police are stretched thin defending a disarmed populace and crime skyrockets while the working class suffers. Fortunately most places here are not so gullible as to beleive that gun control is a success when they see crime going up as a result.