Luckily, Search Engines such as Google search websites located across the globe. I am darn sure all those.ru,.de,.ei,.ie,.etc's out there couldn't give a rat's fart about U.S. law. The MPAA will have to work with its subsidiary organizations to go after scofflaws in countries outside of the U.S. Meanwhile, I can still get the code right here in the USA of the NWO.
Also, let's not forget important links like this. I highly doubt search engines will be nailed in this because they don't knowinly link to illegal material. Yahoo! is on unstable ground because supposedly they have Yahooligans visiting the sites (which is why there is a 2 year backlog). Of course, once my site gets listed, if I inadvertantly add a link to DeCSS . . . poor Yahoo!
Snail Mail a PO Box with a SASE and in 3-4 weeks get a printed copy of the DeCSS atn your Snail Mail address. An optical character scan later, you have the 'Criminal Code' available for your own use.
Hmmm, what if I am an artist and I incorporate the DeCSS code in a painting?
What if I encrypted the code with a pathetic encryption scheme that anyone can break (ASCII Code + 1) and then sue the MPAA if they try to figure out what lies behind the encrypted file?
I think as brutality is removed from competition (note the progression of American football to it's ultra-padded, semi-armored status) we begin to lust for destructive combat. Let's face it, the human race is a violent destructive species that is used to fighting wars over trivial things. As the effects of war become devastating, we turn to athletic competition. As athletic competition becomes too docile, we seek something else. Violent movies, video games, and the like are just attempt to live out that violent aspect inside of us vicariously.
Professional wrestling is another manefestation of this, but in such events, we can only suspend our disbelief so long. Thankfully, we now can turn to robots to live out our fantasies of war without the ill-effects. Watching two pieces of metal, plastic, and silicon smash into each other, send parts flying, and in all essence, 'kick ass', gives us that satisfaction. We want to be the ones tearing up the opposition, but since we no longer have a society where that is acceptable, our surrogates will do it for us.
Will there be human vs. robot competition? Yes, but it will be on the level of chess matches or lame American Gladiator type of stuff.
I'm consistently curious about comments like this. I clearly understand the drudgery of reading about the same subject every week, but if there are different aspects, updates, or if it is regarding the same event a year later, then what is the big deal?
I'm new here, so I guess I haven't had to live through seeing the same story put up over and over. With that one caveat, I am not saying your point isn't worth considering, but because I am new I haven't seen this story and was glad to have been clued in on it.
Yikes! I wasn't trying to imply anything. I was just making a joke that a cube isn't exactly a revolutionary design.
It was never, has never been my intention to trivialize anything. No matter what, someone cares about it and it is disrespectful and neglectful of me to ignore that.
I agree with you. The Microsoft website is one of the squirreliest websites you can possibly visit. The navigation isn't consistent all the way through the site (admittedly, it is a large site and different sections are probably controlled by different people and someone may be on vacation)and there are a ton of dead links. Even for key products like FrontPage.
You only get a mess like that from using FrontPage and Visual InterDev.
I'm no fan of Microsoft, but I like to think critical thinking applies to all walks of life. If this article was meant to be an expose, and the employees didn't want to be named for fear of lawsuit or reprisal, then at least we should know what they did for Microsoft. Are these people janitors, summer interns, accounting clerks, mailroom clerks, or programmers? Where is the memo or email from the executives saying not to use Windows 2000 for production because it is too unstable?
Hotmail and Linkexchange were both purchased by Microsoft. Trying to move massive applications like that over to different OS's is a massive undertaking with a large chance of consumer disruption. In my time in the IT field, I've gone through a few data conversions and minor system uprgrades to enterprise systems -- nothing like a Hotmail conversion, but it took months followed by months of testing to make sure it worked. Except for the bad PR, there isn't an urgent reason to move these services to a Win2K platform. It'll occur, just not immediately.
I don't know any of this as fact, but it seems to be a reasonable theory to me.
I fully admit the statement should have been clearly marked IMO, as I was only basing it off of how Sun dealt with this memory problem, especially in light of how Intel dealt with their 1.13Ghz chip problem. Two quality control issues, one dealt with in the open, one dealt with in the shadows.
I also didn't mean to imply Sun was neglecting its customers but instead neglecting to keep its customers informed of potential problems.
My sincerest apologies, the last time I checked the stock (2 months ago) it had not split and had missed its estimated mark of when it expected to split.
The issue I am talking about has little to do with comparing stock prices with AMD, but the fact that AMD is coming on strong, able to ship more 1 gig chip for the holiday retail season, not suffering from the same chip shortages as AMD.
And according to this recent article, all 1.13GHz chips by Intel are being recalled. Meanwhile AMD began shipping its 1.1GHz chips today.
From the AMD article:
"Shares of both companies have surged this year amid strong PC demand and the general upturn in the PC market. As of Friday, AMD shares were up more than 138 percent for the year, while Intel shares were up more than 77 percent. AMD shares split 2-for-1 last week."
We can see that AMD is coming on strong with a greater supply of chips, which I believe can be interpreted that its 4th quarter earnings are going to continue the growth trend.
In general, I have a sneaking suspicion Sun is worse than Microsoft. Microsoft really never tried to deny it was monolithic. Every once in awhile it would try to do something spry, but it knew it was/is a lumbering beast, carried more by the momentum of the marketplace than by its latent innovation.
Sun, on the other hand, has laid quiet, touting its successes where and whenever possible, covering up its failures, helping demonize Microsoft (unite the people behind a common enemy), and not really living up to its promise as the superior technological company.
With Microsoft losing its Imperial hold, Sun is beginning to look like a pretty shifty company, casting doubt on its commitment to its customer base.
I have to disagree, it is neither novel or non-obvious. Is a boat a novel, non-obvious way to tavel on water? When the first one was used, yes. But using computers to calculate shipping and foreign currency fluctuations is not because that is what computers have been doing. Yes, Ed Pool did develop a software system that allowed for combining these calculations into one application, and he should have been licensing it from the start.
But claiming a patent on international trade via computers is far too broad. His patent should only extend to his specific system and not to the entire process.
The nondisclosure agreements were apparently offered with a claim that signing them would bolster Sun's commitment to resolving the problem quickly, Henkel said.
I'll tell you what really bolster's a company's commitment in fixing a problem, and that is realizing they are going to lose a lot of business if they don't fix it. An NDA simply means they get to take their time, fix it on their schedule, and not suffer severe ramifications for their actions.
A more proactive company would have jumped right out there, admitted their problem, and outlined exactly what they were doing to fix it. That prevents a leak from making them look like slimeballs.
I do believe the patent office has way too much power to control the flow of the economy. While I support every effort to make sure someone doesn't get ripped off for their efforts, I can't imagine this being having been a difficult concept to come up with. A copyright on the softare and then selling that system would have made more sense.
I agree with the sentiment, but I disagree with the analysis. At one point in time Intel stock split fairly regularly, but hasn't in awhile. The chip shortages, technical glitches, and the AMD slashing prices on chips prior to its Gig chip release as reported here has put Intel in a tight spot, trying to keep its growth steady in light of investor expectations.
The general populace do believe Intel is the only chipmaker, but that belief is slowly being eroded with cheaper AMD chips coming out. Intel needs to take decisive action in the areas it already holds marketshare. Again, I feel I need to state, IANA-MBA.
The War on Drugs is slightly different, but seeing that middle of the road Republican politicians are questioning the policies that have filled jails with so many drug cases that they have to be paroled, without any effort to rehab them, in order to make room for murderers, thieves, etc., I can say that the War on Drugs is coming to an end.
But with the book thing, I believe most judges, D.A.'s, and other legal officials would be equally appalled at the idea of a book not being able to be passed along, shared, spread about to encourage universal enlightenment, that change would occur more quickly. And if I have to rot in jail with the Drug Addicts because I believe strongly in the right to Use and Dispose of my property in any fashion that does not cause injury to another, then so be it.
It seems Intel is pushing itself to disaster. I could rant on about issues of quality control and being far better to create something that is stable and useful to sell to the public than something that just gives you bragging rights.
This actually makes me nervous about all the Gig chips being built. What kind of testing is really going on with these chips and is it adequate enough or are the manufacturers so eager to get another press release out in order to get a boost to their stock they are failing to realize their design is flawed?
Intel has been suffering some serious blows, both in the technical world and in the business world and cannot afford another setback, especially since these new gig plus chips are supposed to be selling for the holiday season (as gamers are one of the first to eat up such advancements).
If I had any advice for Intel, it would be to retrench and spew out tons of 700+ chips at low prices to build up marketshare while focusing on turning the Gig plus chips into something worthwhile. This is just an off the cuff suggestion as IANA-MBA.
While I will not begin to say anyting about Sanskrit as I willingly admit my ignorance of the differing levels of linguistics, I will reiterate the information in the CIA World factbook that in India English is the language used in government and in newspapers because of the sheer diversity of languages in that country. Sanskrit isn't widely used, AFAIK.
I agree this is a good thing. But coding entire sites by hand is slightly unrealistic and costly to the client. But the code should always be dumped into a text editor and the extraneous bits that the Editor shoves in it removed.
Frontpage is the largest offender. Dreamweaver does an okay job, but tables still should be gone over with a finetoothed comb. Just don't ask me to code a complex table by hand and expect it to be done within thirty minutes. With an editor, though, I can spill tables out in no time.
I guess one of the best protests we, the people concerned with the rights associated with buying a bok, is to begin a massive violation of the law and tie up the legal system with hundreds upon thousands of cases of 'booksharing'.
Then when court dates for other civil and criminal actions dry up, effectively shutting down the system, someone might get a clue. If not, this is one crime I will willingly commit. It is my book, my property for which I paid my money for.
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Luckily, Search Engines such as Google search websites located across the globe. I am darn sure all those .ru, .de, .ei, .ie, .etc's out there couldn't give a rat's fart about U.S. law. The MPAA will have to work with its subsidiary organizations to go after scofflaws in countries outside of the U.S. Meanwhile, I can still get the code right here in the USA of the NWO.
I'm in for a penny. The new studion could be called Developers of Caustic, Sarcastic, and Silly Films, or DeCSS Films for short.
Also, let's not forget important links like this. I highly doubt search engines will be nailed in this because they don't knowinly link to illegal material. Yahoo! is on unstable ground because supposedly they have Yahooligans visiting the sites (which is why there is a 2 year backlog). Of course, once my site gets listed, if I inadvertantly add a link to DeCSS . . . poor Yahoo!
Hmmm, what if I am an artist and I incorporate the DeCSS code in a painting?
What if I encrypted the code with a pathetic encryption scheme that anyone can break (ASCII Code + 1) and then sue the MPAA if they try to figure out what lies behind the encrypted file?
Professional wrestling is another manefestation of this, but in such events, we can only suspend our disbelief so long. Thankfully, we now can turn to robots to live out our fantasies of war without the ill-effects. Watching two pieces of metal, plastic, and silicon smash into each other, send parts flying, and in all essence, 'kick ass', gives us that satisfaction. We want to be the ones tearing up the opposition, but since we no longer have a society where that is acceptable, our surrogates will do it for us.
Will there be human vs. robot competition? Yes, but it will be on the level of chess matches or lame American Gladiator type of stuff.
Viva La Machine!
I'm new here, so I guess I haven't had to live through seeing the same story put up over and over. With that one caveat, I am not saying your point isn't worth considering, but because I am new I haven't seen this story and was glad to have been clued in on it.
It was never, has never been my intention to trivialize anything. No matter what, someone cares about it and it is disrespectful and neglectful of me to ignore that.
You only get a mess like that from using FrontPage and Visual InterDev.
Mac Employee: Uh, it's supposed to be a secret. I've signed NDA's and stuff.
Reporter: Okay, okay, I understand. What can you tell me about it? Anything? Color, size, shape?
Mac Employee: Well, it's a cube.
Reporter: No, duh. All computers are, except the sleek IMAC. Are saying the new G4 is going back to squaresville?
Mac Employee: I've said too much. I gotta go.
Reporter: Yeah, great, great story kid. Mac builds a Cube.
Hotmail and Linkexchange were both purchased by Microsoft. Trying to move massive applications like that over to different OS's is a massive undertaking with a large chance of consumer disruption. In my time in the IT field, I've gone through a few data conversions and minor system uprgrades to enterprise systems -- nothing like a Hotmail conversion, but it took months followed by months of testing to make sure it worked. Except for the bad PR, there isn't an urgent reason to move these services to a Win2K platform. It'll occur, just not immediately.
I don't know any of this as fact, but it seems to be a reasonable theory to me.
Now we can see if AMD has the mettle to become the processor leader or not.
I also didn't mean to imply Sun was neglecting its customers but instead neglecting to keep its customers informed of potential problems.
The issue I am talking about has little to do with comparing stock prices with AMD, but the fact that AMD is coming on strong, able to ship more 1 gig chip for the holiday retail season, not suffering from the same chip shortages as AMD.
And according to this recent article, all 1.13GHz chips by Intel are being recalled. Meanwhile AMD began shipping its 1.1GHz chips today.
From the AMD article:
We can see that AMD is coming on strong with a greater supply of chips, which I believe can be interpreted that its 4th quarter earnings are going to continue the growth trend.
Sun, on the other hand, has laid quiet, touting its successes where and whenever possible, covering up its failures, helping demonize Microsoft (unite the people behind a common enemy), and not really living up to its promise as the superior technological company.
With Microsoft losing its Imperial hold, Sun is beginning to look like a pretty shifty company, casting doubt on its commitment to its customer base.
But claiming a patent on international trade via computers is far too broad. His patent should only extend to his specific system and not to the entire process.
I'll tell you what really bolster's a company's commitment in fixing a problem, and that is realizing they are going to lose a lot of business if they don't fix it. An NDA simply means they get to take their time, fix it on their schedule, and not suffer severe ramifications for their actions.
A more proactive company would have jumped right out there, admitted their problem, and outlined exactly what they were doing to fix it. That prevents a leak from making them look like slimeballs.
I do believe the patent office has way too much power to control the flow of the economy. While I support every effort to make sure someone doesn't get ripped off for their efforts, I can't imagine this being having been a difficult concept to come up with. A copyright on the softare and then selling that system would have made more sense.
Oh no, what a horrible thing. You are right, screw civil disobedience. I don't know how political prisoners do it.
The general populace do believe Intel is the only chipmaker, but that belief is slowly being eroded with cheaper AMD chips coming out. Intel needs to take decisive action in the areas it already holds marketshare. Again, I feel I need to state, IANA-MBA.
But with the book thing, I believe most judges, D.A.'s, and other legal officials would be equally appalled at the idea of a book not being able to be passed along, shared, spread about to encourage universal enlightenment, that change would occur more quickly. And if I have to rot in jail with the Drug Addicts because I believe strongly in the right to Use and Dispose of my property in any fashion that does not cause injury to another, then so be it.
This actually makes me nervous about all the Gig chips being built. What kind of testing is really going on with these chips and is it adequate enough or are the manufacturers so eager to get another press release out in order to get a boost to their stock they are failing to realize their design is flawed?
Intel has been suffering some serious blows, both in the technical world and in the business world and cannot afford another setback, especially since these new gig plus chips are supposed to be selling for the holiday season (as gamers are one of the first to eat up such advancements).
If I had any advice for Intel, it would be to retrench and spew out tons of 700+ chips at low prices to build up marketshare while focusing on turning the Gig plus chips into something worthwhile. This is just an off the cuff suggestion as IANA-MBA.
While I will not begin to say anyting about Sanskrit as I willingly admit my ignorance of the differing levels of linguistics, I will reiterate the information in the CIA World factbook that in India English is the language used in government and in newspapers because of the sheer diversity of languages in that country. Sanskrit isn't widely used, AFAIK.
Frontpage is the largest offender. Dreamweaver does an okay job, but tables still should be gone over with a finetoothed comb. Just don't ask me to code a complex table by hand and expect it to be done within thirty minutes. With an editor, though, I can spill tables out in no time.
Then when court dates for other civil and criminal actions dry up, effectively shutting down the system, someone might get a clue. If not, this is one crime I will willingly commit. It is my book, my property for which I paid my money for.
Are you a booklegger?