But legally speaking many companies believe that a parody doesn't have to be funny - it just has to imitate. As an example some may recall the slashdot story on Tierra - who is re-creating old Sierra games in a new engine. They have this sort of view on parodies.
I think that the point is that Lucas does not get to decide what a parody is if it came to legal action.
From what I have read, he doesn't understand this bill fully. He's just taking it on fait that it will do what the movie companies tell him. If he actually read it and saw that it would not only be impossible to enforce, but it seems morally inexcusable from a business sense to force the technology sector to come up with methods to save content from the evils of the consumer. Then again, he may have read it and just truly agrees with the movie companies. Coming from that area in CA - I guess I could understand that. +sigh+
Microsoft touting "Zero Administration" when Windows NT 4.0 came out. My boss was like "we'll save so much!!! I can't even project the numbers!"... tisk tisk. Good thing I told him to wait until the marketing hype died;-)
I would pay money to the shareholders if they were to open source blender. This way it would be able to live on as the great tool that it is. Anyone else willing to chip in?
Few journalists will get the chance to report on the SSSCA - even fewer will understand what it is like this reporter. I often find myself being overly cynical about journalism for a number of reasons, but this article hits the issue right on the head.
Very true, someone else who breaks the law does not make me automatically guilty. If we were to use this same principle everywhere nobody could drive cars, knives, guns, or even computers. (because they have been used to intentionally break the law) If I was the developer of bnetd I would reply with a threat of counter-suit if they went after me. I would be very wary of Blizzard saying that they have the right to package a service and product together - this "cramming" is illegal for service providers and potentially deadly for Blizzard as well.
Needless to say Blizzard has more to fear from itself trying to entirely control its market then we do from it. If they look at potential customers as the enemy, then they have already lost. I know many normal consumers won't touch Windows XP because of the activation bullshit. If Blizzard isn't careful it will be the same for them.
Aside from staggering releases why would you want to do this? It only makes preservation of the content more difficult. Doesn't region encoding things fly in the face of the entire "global economy" concept? I never have understood why movie and software companies go out of their way to make an international market difficult, impossible, or possibly even illegal. Any insight?
As far as players go, don't forget VCD, SVCD, MP3, and of course good ole' CD (DA).
Seriously though - I doubt that this will make a dent in the market now. People have spent a lot of money on their current DVD system, by the time that most people are ready to go back out and spend again 27GB will probably seem quite small. I can see this as a physical computer data storage format more than anything as DVD never quite took off in that arena.
Personally, I dispise Microsoft - and have a general loathing for Windows. However - "one desktop to rule them all" isn't a good idea no matter who is ruling it. If Linux was king of the desktop, some things would be different - but there would still be problems. Being that Microsoft will have to slow down core development (lest they kill the market entirely) Linux, MacOS, and all the boys will be able to reverse engineer the technology to their own needs. My hope is that nobody ever rule over the desktop entirely - but that they invent separately - so that all would benefit.
I wouldn't worry too much about the Samsung / G-Mate relationship. It seems to me that G-Mate gave up on them about a year ago when they spec'd out the first Yopy / "YDK" for Samsung. The newest Yopy is quite cool and has a lot of room for potential. I wouldn't mind getting my hands on one of them - and for 399 - if the cell phone attachment could work in the US.. it's not a bad deal.
Isn't it easy to downplay what seems like an impossibly simple situation? Even going so far as to say "maybe finished" - you should be ashamed for your unabashed ageism. Perhaps you've ran into your number of inexperienced "kids" before. Unfortunately this is not always true.
A "kid" graduates high school and is rocketed in his career nearly immediately due to raw skill. This can happen to musicians, this can happen to artisans, but the common misconception is that this cannot happen to people in the high tech field. No, skill cannot be intrinsic - it must be earned through the social institution of "structured" education.
Not to downplay the importance of a University, I just passed this up for now. I would like to go to school and learn - but not about beer and frat parties. No, I would rather go and actually. I have credentials, I have references, I still have job offers coming. So I'll just let the facts speak for themselves.
As per the "engineer" business - yes the company I work for does call me an engineer. This is due to multiple reasons. Most of this has to deal with experience, a skill set, and proven ability to deal with situations. This is evidenced by our recent search for another suitable engineer. This search took months, and each person was interviewed by at least 5 technical, and 3 non-technical people. We went through about 80 candidates with around 10 percent of that making a cut for an interview. We finally found our engineer - and he's been an excellent fit (and yes, he's about 10 years older than I).
This is where I'm going to have to disagree. I am currently 22 years old, for the past 3 years I have held the advancing title of Systems Administrator and more recently Systems Engineer for a company that provides truly mission-critical services (E-911) to mobile carriers.
Prior to this I was privately contracting for 3 years at a local ISP in the function of System and Network Administrator / etc. - while doing other various contracts at other ISP's and small businesses.
Even prior to this I had been volunteering for various community orgs, on and off for another 3 or 4 years such as the local library, (which had a 40k + user-base freenet, ran SunOS, and had various interesting long-distance wireless LANs set up), schools, etc.
Depending on where you want to start, I easily had 5 years of "real world" experience when I was 19. Now if "real world" means "corporate America" well then no. It's nearly impossible to do much of any real work until you have spent years proving how good you are - and large corporations (unless they are specifically high tech) rarely have an interesting view of technology to boot.
Large corporations are uninteresting because they spend time making your job difficult (network regulation, black, red, white, etc.) making simple tasks such as e-mail and web browsing a difficult - nearly impossible task. Not ever caring about real security, only expensive software and name recognition (using oracle for a transactional database... blah). If this counts as "real world" experience then most people who love technology want little to nothing to do with it.
Of course this is just my experience, it sounds like yours is a bit different.
Something I was curious about, is at the ending when he is beeing wheeled out on the gurney it looks like Robert is in entirely different clothes than Prot was. At first I thought that Prot may just have been another personality that lived inside Robert (the only way to explain the hypnosis), and a very old one at that. However at the end you have Robert, someone who is understandably catatonic wearing different clothes - and (what appears to) not have the UV affliction of the eyes. Easily put this movie was an analysts wet dream because it seems to me that at the ending you are led to believe whatever you want to believe - even though there is evidence that points to something else.
I would love to get ahold of this little box - I currently have a Visor Prisim and the best thing they have for it is the VisorPhone. Does anyone know of a CF variant of a GSM "visorphone" device? If anyone has anymore details on this device I would love to hear about it.
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I think you miss my point. The E-911 mandate is for all phones & customers. Sprint is going to say "for these select phones we can provide it..." which will just not fly this will not fly with the FCC.
However with technologies like TruePosition, and Snaptrack's WARN services, Grayson, and Lucent's SS7 PDE technologies you are able to get within a few meters with currently implemented technologies. Hell even the mandate for Phase I (cellsite/sector) is VERY accurate in densely covered (metro) areas.
I see your point though, write your congress-people:)
Has anyone thought about the trademark agreement? Doesn't Panasonic own the "COMPACT-DISC" trademark? I think I remember reading somewhere a long time ago that the way you are able to use this trademark is by insuring that everything with the label is playable in all players with the "COMPACT-DISC" trademark on it.
Any thoughts?
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Disclaimer: I work for TeleCommunication Systems Inc. - we provide nationwide E-911 service.
During the FCC mandate for Phase I - which most carriers still have not fully deployed was based on cellsite/sector / some other general location. For Phase II E-911 the requirement is a PDE. As there are literally hundreds of ways to get this information (GPS handsets are only one). Under the TCS solution for Phase II we query a "pluggable" PDE for the location information - so the only time that anyone gets your specific location information is only when it is needed (as in during a 911 call). The only real difference with the Sprint solution is that they have brought the PDE functionality in-house.
The article says that the military "may" and that industry analysts "expect". Well I find this hard to believe being that 3G tests are being conducted currently (meaning that licenses for the spectrum are already out there). I doubt that the US govt is going to cap an entire industry (in this case wireless). Also, think about CALEA and the potential that 3G allows... I'm really pretty much doubting this article alltogether.
In other words, almost any company that sells Linux servers sells beowulf clusters o' servers as well. And if you want training, quite a few of them out there have classes for it too:)
However it is my understanding of the law that you can create a contract that has a clause in it that breaks the law - (the US Constitution in this case - you know free speech and all) and it just blows the entire contract out of the water.
Seems like a stupid move on the part of Microsoft IMHO.
Slashdot Mirror
But legally speaking many companies believe that a parody doesn't have to be funny - it just has to imitate. As an example some may recall the slashdot story on Tierra - who is re-creating old Sierra games in a new engine. They have this sort of view on parodies.
I think that the point is that Lucas does not get to decide what a parody is if it came to legal action.
From what I have read, he doesn't understand this bill fully. He's just taking it on fait that it will do what the movie companies tell him. If he actually read it and saw that it would not only be impossible to enforce, but it seems morally inexcusable from a business sense to force the technology sector to come up with methods to save content from the evils of the consumer. Then again, he may have read it and just truly agrees with the movie companies. Coming from that area in CA - I guess I could understand that. +sigh+
But I'm preaching to the choir...
Microsoft touting "Zero Administration" when Windows NT 4.0 came out. My boss was like "we'll save so much!!! I can't even project the numbers!"... tisk tisk. Good thing I told him to wait until the marketing hype died ;-)
I would pay money to the shareholders if they were to open source blender. This way it would be able to live on as the great tool that it is. Anyone else willing to chip in?
This is a sad outcome for Not a Number though.
Which is why it was so good...
Few journalists will get the chance to report on the SSSCA - even fewer will understand what it is like this reporter. I often find myself being overly cynical about journalism for a number of reasons, but this article hits the issue right on the head.
I always thought black backgrounds and red flashing fonts were cool
Very true, someone else who breaks the law does not make me automatically guilty. If we were to use this same principle everywhere nobody could drive cars, knives, guns, or even computers. (because they have been used to intentionally break the law) If I was the developer of bnetd I would reply with a threat of counter-suit if they went after me. I would be very wary of Blizzard saying that they have the right to package a service and product together - this "cramming" is illegal for service providers and potentially deadly for Blizzard as well.
Needless to say Blizzard has more to fear from itself trying to entirely control its market then we do from it. If they look at potential customers as the enemy, then they have already lost. I know many normal consumers won't touch Windows XP because of the activation bullshit. If Blizzard isn't careful it will be the same for them.
Aside from staggering releases why would you want to do this? It only makes preservation of the content more difficult. Doesn't region encoding things fly in the face of the entire "global economy" concept? I never have understood why movie and software companies go out of their way to make an international market difficult, impossible, or possibly even illegal. Any insight?
Agreed, however most /.ers are not the normal consumer.
As far as players go, don't forget VCD, SVCD, MP3, and of course good ole' CD (DA).
Seriously though - I doubt that this will make a dent in the market now. People have spent a lot of money on their current DVD system, by the time that most people are ready to go back out and spend again 27GB will probably seem quite small. I can see this as a physical computer data storage format more than anything as DVD never quite took off in that arena.
Unlike XP - do you suppose that you actually get the Linux CD's instead of a recovery partition? ;-)
Personally, I dispise Microsoft - and have a general loathing for Windows. However - "one desktop to rule them all" isn't a good idea no matter who is ruling it. If Linux was king of the desktop, some things would be different - but there would still be problems. Being that Microsoft will have to slow down core development (lest they kill the market entirely) Linux, MacOS, and all the boys will be able to reverse engineer the technology to their own needs. My hope is that nobody ever rule over the desktop entirely - but that they invent separately - so that all would benefit.
Oh well
I wouldn't worry too much about the Samsung / G-Mate relationship. It seems to me that G-Mate gave up on them about a year ago when they spec'd out the first Yopy / "YDK" for Samsung. The newest Yopy is quite cool and has a lot of room for potential. I wouldn't mind getting my hands on one of them - and for 399 - if the cell phone attachment could work in the US .. it's not a bad deal.
Just my $0.02
Does:
NES = Nintendo Entertainment System
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NES = Netscape Enterprise Server
Either way, it could be quick ^_^;;
-Brian
Isn't it easy to downplay what seems like an impossibly simple situation? Even going so far as to say "maybe finished" - you should be ashamed for your unabashed ageism. Perhaps you've ran into your number of inexperienced "kids" before. Unfortunately this is not always true.
A "kid" graduates high school and is rocketed in his career nearly immediately due to raw skill. This can happen to musicians, this can happen to artisans, but the common misconception is that this cannot happen to people in the high tech field. No, skill cannot be intrinsic - it must be earned through the social institution of "structured" education.
Not to downplay the importance of a University, I just passed this up for now. I would like to go to school and learn - but not about beer and frat parties. No, I would rather go and actually. I have credentials, I have references, I still have job offers coming. So I'll just let the facts speak for themselves.
As per the "engineer" business - yes the company I work for does call me an engineer. This is due to multiple reasons. Most of this has to deal with experience, a skill set, and proven ability to deal with situations. This is evidenced by our recent search for another suitable engineer. This search took months, and each person was interviewed by at least 5 technical, and 3 non-technical people. We went through about 80 candidates with around 10 percent of that making a cut for an interview. We finally found our engineer - and he's been an excellent fit (and yes, he's about 10 years older than I).
Cheers,
Brian
This is where I'm going to have to disagree. I am currently 22 years old, for the past 3 years I have held the advancing title of Systems Administrator and more recently Systems Engineer for a company that provides truly mission-critical services (E-911) to mobile carriers.
Prior to this I was privately contracting for 3 years at a local ISP in the function of System and Network Administrator / etc. - while doing other various contracts at other ISP's and small businesses.
Even prior to this I had been volunteering for various community orgs, on and off for another 3 or 4 years such as the local library, (which had a 40k + user-base freenet, ran SunOS, and had various interesting long-distance wireless LANs set up), schools, etc.
Depending on where you want to start, I easily had 5 years of "real world" experience when I was 19. Now if "real world" means "corporate America" well then no. It's nearly impossible to do much of any real work until you have spent years proving how good you are - and large corporations (unless they are specifically high tech) rarely have an interesting view of technology to boot.
Large corporations are uninteresting because they spend time making your job difficult (network regulation, black, red, white, etc.) making simple tasks such as e-mail and web browsing a difficult - nearly impossible task. Not ever caring about real security, only expensive software and name recognition (using oracle for a transactional database... blah). If this counts as "real world" experience then most people who love technology want little to nothing to do with it.
Of course this is just my experience, it sounds like yours is a bit different.
Cheers,
Brian
Something I was curious about, is at the ending when he is beeing wheeled out on the gurney it looks like Robert is in entirely different clothes than Prot was. At first I thought that Prot may just have been another personality that lived inside Robert (the only way to explain the hypnosis), and a very old one at that. However at the end you have Robert, someone who is understandably catatonic wearing different clothes - and (what appears to) not have the UV affliction of the eyes. Easily put this movie was an analysts wet dream because it seems to me that at the ending you are led to believe whatever you want to believe - even though there is evidence that points to something else.
I would love to get ahold of this little box - I currently have a Visor Prisim and the best thing they have for it is the VisorPhone. Does anyone know of a CF variant of a GSM "visorphone" device? If anyone has anymore details on this device I would love to hear about it.
I think you miss my point. The E-911 mandate is for all phones & customers. Sprint is going to say "for these select phones we can provide it..." which will just not fly this will not fly with the FCC.
:)
However with technologies like TruePosition, and Snaptrack's WARN services, Grayson, and Lucent's SS7 PDE technologies you are able to get within a few meters with currently implemented technologies. Hell even the mandate for Phase I (cellsite/sector) is VERY accurate in densely covered (metro) areas.
I see your point though, write your congress-people
Thanks!
Has anyone thought about the trademark agreement? Doesn't Panasonic own the "COMPACT-DISC" trademark? I think I remember reading somewhere a long time ago that the way you are able to use this trademark is by insuring that everything with the label is playable in all players with the "COMPACT-DISC" trademark on it.
Any thoughts?
Disclaimer: I work for TeleCommunication Systems Inc. - we provide nationwide E-911 service.
During the FCC mandate for Phase I - which most carriers still have not fully deployed was based on cellsite/sector / some other general location. For Phase II E-911 the requirement is a PDE. As there are literally hundreds of ways to get this information (GPS handsets are only one). Under the TCS solution for Phase II we query a "pluggable" PDE for the location information - so the only time that anyone gets your specific location information is only when it is needed (as in during a 911 call). The only real difference with the Sprint solution is that they have brought the PDE functionality in-house.
Just to try to help clarify...
The article says that the military "may" and that industry analysts "expect". Well I find this hard to believe being that 3G tests are being conducted currently (meaning that licenses for the spectrum are already out there). I doubt that the US govt is going to cap an entire industry (in this case wireless). Also, think about CALEA and the potential that 3G allows... I'm really pretty much doubting this article alltogether.
Penguin Computing ships beowulf clusters
:)
IBMdoes a lot of linux stuff, they even have beowulf traning classes - I imagine that they have some turnkey solution.
Compaq sells 'em. too.
In other words, almost any company that sells Linux servers sells beowulf clusters o' servers as well. And if you want training, quite a few of them out there have classes for it too
However it is my understanding of the law that you can create a contract that has a clause in it that breaks the law - (the US Constitution in this case - you know free speech and all) and it just blows the entire contract out of the water.
Seems like a stupid move on the part of Microsoft IMHO.