Speaking as a rich kid from the private school down the road...
Actually we don't. Most of the guys I knew who now run their own business had parents who ran their own businesses. There was a "young enterprise scheme", but really that taught kids how to succeed at being management weasels rather than entrepreneurs.
At university we had a couple of lectures about how to run our own business. They weren't particularly well organised or well thought out though. On lecturer gave us some quite useful basic ionformation about the things you need to consider (mostly fairly obvious, but it would be easy to compeltely fail to consider something important like paying yourself), but there was another with a very convoluted metaphor of the business as a carm and everyone wanting to drive.
But apart from that, I had nothing. And I still wouldn't know where to start if I had the courage to leave my comfortable job, and set up my own company. I wouldn't know how to get extra employees (all my ideas revolve around some reasonably complex software that would require at least a small team), how to get initial financing, or how not to be totally screwed over.
He said many firms readily admit that their DRM systems are little protection against skilled attackers such as the organised crime gangs that are responsible for most piracy.
I, and most peoiple I know who have acquired pirated material, got it from file sharing apps and IRC. Are these really considered "organised" crime gangs? Probably the first time I've ever been accused of being organised.
And if anyone can tell me how to include a URL without displaying the whole damn thing, please do.
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Icepick vinnie has been "rightsized", and our corporate heavies department outsourced. We now send a polite well spoken Indian chap to intimidate the victims.
All you'd get is the same EULA printed on paper and stuck on the outside of the box, and nothing else would change.
Look, I was oversimplifying. These wouldn't be valid either. Sale of a piece of software would be treated as a sale. The only exception to this would be site licences where the purchase is clearly an unquestionably a licence, with a signature.
The fact is that they are extremely upopular amongst those who actually read them.
In the past, they were tolerated because, for practical purposes, they were unenforcable but there should be no need for them. Copyright law should take into account that people will want to install and use one copy of a piece of software on one machine, and that this is not an unreasonable demand.
It would be nice to have a change to the law that covers what users may and may not do without explicit permission, and invalidates EULA's agreed to after purchase.
What I can't understand from this is WHY Blizzard would be opposed to this? If a mini-economy were to open up around your game, isn't that a good thing? They could get into the act themselves -- selling magic items and high level characters to the highest bidder? Hasn't anyone learned ANYTHING from the file swapping issues, Hacked satellite boxes or even drug interdiction? You can't stop people from doing what they want, and by picking battles of silly stuff like this weakens the arguments in legitimate cases where people actually are injured.
Because you open up a whole nest of troubles as soon as real money is involved. People will complain and try to hold the company responsible if they are cheated by another player, and they have no control over this.
Is it reasonable to assume that a car you sell wil be used as a murder weapon, given that millions of cars are sold every year and not used as murder weapons?
Is it reasonable to assume that people who use your torrent links to infringing material will download infringing material?
Can you tell me about datatypes? I kept hearing about them after I retired my Amiga. It sounds like a flexible data plugin mechanism (which would certainly be useful), but I really never found out exactly what they did.
I sure hope your assumption that they will be removed is wrong, although displaying in mega- or kilobytes might make them a bit more readable.
But these numbers were useful for spotting memory leaks. If OS4.0 has the same memory management as previous versions (i.e. virtually none), then this is essential.
The Amiga was a great games machine, with cool custom chips taking the load off the generally-not-too-great CPU, a highly consistent architecture, and an adequate, quirky OS which was good where it mattered for the applications it was used for.
Custom hardware was not something that was seen in commodity PCs at the time. Neither were good quality graphics and sound. It wasn't a better machine. In many ways it was inferior. It was a very different machine, and that's why it suceeded where it did.
AmigaOS 4.0 is simply another OS. Perhaps it's a very nice OS. BeOS was as well. But a nice OS doesn't make it better.
I think Windows 95 and 98 were pretty crappy operating systems as well. Can't build a better one. I thought Aliens vs. Predator was a rubbish movie. I couldn't make a better one.
This in no way means I should not be allowed to critique the proposed solution.
How is an automated system going to recognise a blog? Or should they keep huge, wasteful, manual lists?
The same way it recognises "popular" sites. Heuristics.
It is easy to say "implement a better system", but if it was that easy, don't you think all the web search companies would being doing it?
Google prides itself on hiring the best of the best. If they're so smart, is this really the best they could come up with?
The fact that it isn't just Google involved should be a good inidicator that counting links is common practice in search engines these days, becuase it works better than what they had before (counting word occurances or looking in meta tags).
Previous methods worked until people learned to game the system. Noe people have learned to game the pageranking system.
If you have a wonderful new search algorithm, go make you fortune with it.
Yes, because god forbid I should point out the flaws of a system without having a fully working replacement.
perhaps they should fix the pagerank algorithm
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Google's pagerank algorithm may have worked well in the distant past, but it's not 2001 anymore. Things have moved on. We have blogs and trackbacks and - as the article says - comment spam.
What does this mean? It means Google's scoring system is broken. It's time Google implemented a new better system, where blogs count for nothing, and only real sites that people read count for anything. It should not be up to the users top change the functionality of the internet to boost a greedy corporations profits.
On all platforms. At least all of them that meet the C standard. If you have K&R 2nd edition, look at p. 102, where it says this:
Does K&R (or any other standard) state what printf should do in terms of input checking? It's possible that there is at least one implementation that has a NULL pointer check.
I'e used GIS files which had less than 50% data to XML formatting in them and when you're looking at gigs of data that's a criminal waste of space and time.
Perhaps, but to be fair, XML compresses well, and if you're using that much data, there's usually no good reason not to use some sort of compression.
Contract states that company is allowed to use product of employee's work freely, but not resell
Why not?
How about company get rights to use it on a non-exclusive basis. Or even company gets full rights, employee gets a reasonable cut. The company paid for the development work after all. The employee is free to work on their own projects at home.
Your post is titled, "4 reasons this guy is wrong". You list 3.
Count 'em again.
"Economics and mathematics are totally different subjects". Calculus and Physics are totally different subjects, yet they both heavily rely upon math. Perhaps you have not taken enough economics courses to understand how much math is involved...
If you count mixing wild speculation and simple arithmetic as maths, I'll agree.
Did you even RTFA? The president was referring to data prepared for the conference. His statement was not founded upon his child's preference of playtoys.
What techincal challenges would there be to extending the upper deck of a 747 to carry a few more people? They already did this with the 746-300. Could it be stretched all the way to the tail?
It's only the same thing from the point of view of the business. From the PoV of the punter, if your house catches fire, you just get just to keep your house.
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Speaking as a rich kid from the private school down the road...
Actually we don't. Most of the guys I knew who now run their own business had parents who ran their own businesses. There was a "young enterprise scheme", but really that taught kids how to succeed at being management weasels rather than entrepreneurs.
At university we had a couple of lectures about how to run our own business. They weren't particularly well organised or well thought out though. On lecturer gave us some quite useful basic ionformation about the things you need to consider (mostly fairly obvious, but it would be easy to compeltely fail to consider something important like paying yourself), but there was another with a very convoluted metaphor of the business as a carm and everyone wanting to drive.
But apart from that, I had nothing. And I still wouldn't know where to start if I had the courage to leave my comfortable job, and set up my own company. I wouldn't know how to get extra employees (all my ideas revolve around some reasonably complex software that would require at least a small team), how to get initial financing, or how not to be totally screwed over.
He said many firms readily admit that their DRM systems are little protection against skilled attackers such as the organised crime gangs that are responsible for most piracy.
I, and most peoiple I know who have acquired pirated material, got it from file sharing apps and IRC. Are these really considered "organised" crime gangs? Probably the first time I've ever been accused of being organised.
Return On Investment. i.e. You will be well rewarded for it.
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Icepick vinnie has been "rightsized", and our corporate heavies department outsourced. We now send a polite well spoken Indian chap to intimidate the victims.
All you'd get is the same EULA printed on paper and stuck on the outside of the box, and nothing else would change.
Look, I was oversimplifying. These wouldn't be valid either. Sale of a piece of software would be treated as a sale. The only exception to this would be site licences where the purchase is clearly an unquestionably a licence, with a signature.
The fact is that they are extremely upopular amongst those who actually read them.
In the past, they were tolerated because, for practical purposes, they were unenforcable but there should be no need for them. Copyright law should take into account that people will want to install and use one copy of a piece of software on one machine, and that this is not an unreasonable demand.
It would be nice to have a change to the law that covers what users may and may not do without explicit permission, and invalidates EULA's agreed to after purchase.
What I can't understand from this is WHY Blizzard would be opposed to this? If a mini-economy were to open up around your game, isn't that a good thing? They could get into the act themselves -- selling magic items and high level characters to the highest bidder? Hasn't anyone learned ANYTHING from the file swapping issues, Hacked satellite boxes or even drug interdiction? You can't stop people from doing what they want, and by picking battles of silly stuff like this weakens the arguments in legitimate cases where people actually are injured.
Because you open up a whole nest of troubles as soon as real money is involved. People will complain and try to hold the company responsible if they are cheated by another player, and they have no control over this.
It's all down to the "reasonable man" test.
Is it reasonable to assume that a car you sell wil be used as a murder weapon, given that millions of cars are sold every year and not used as murder weapons?
Is it reasonable to assume that people who use your torrent links to infringing material will download infringing material?
Can you tell me about datatypes? I kept hearing about them after I retired my Amiga. It sounds like a flexible data plugin mechanism (which would certainly be useful), but I really never found out exactly what they did.
Me too. Wing Commander, I could live without, but I gave up waiting for a decent version of Doom.
I sure hope your assumption that they will be removed is wrong, although displaying in mega- or kilobytes might make them a bit more readable.
But these numbers were useful for spotting memory leaks. If OS4.0 has the same memory management as previous versions (i.e. virtually none), then this is essential.
But this isn't what the Amiga was.
The Amiga was a great games machine, with cool custom chips taking the load off the generally-not-too-great CPU, a highly consistent architecture, and an adequate, quirky OS which was good where it mattered for the applications it was used for.
Custom hardware was not something that was seen in commodity PCs at the time. Neither were good quality graphics and sound. It wasn't a better machine. In many ways it was inferior. It was a very different machine, and that's why it suceeded where it did.
AmigaOS 4.0 is simply another OS. Perhaps it's a very nice OS. BeOS was as well. But a nice OS doesn't make it better.
Gotta love the google fanboys.
I think Windows 95 and 98 were pretty crappy operating systems as well. Can't build a better one. I thought Aliens vs. Predator was a rubbish movie. I couldn't make a better one.
This in no way means I should not be allowed to critique the proposed solution.
No. Not that broken. Just broken enough that it should be fixed rather than patched.
How is an automated system going to recognise a blog? Or should they keep huge, wasteful, manual lists?
The same way it recognises "popular" sites. Heuristics.
It is easy to say "implement a better system", but if it was that easy, don't you think all the web search companies would being doing it?
Google prides itself on hiring the best of the best. If they're so smart, is this really the best they could come up with?
The fact that it isn't just Google involved should be a good inidicator that counting links is common practice in search engines these days, becuase it works better than what they had before (counting word occurances or looking in meta tags).
Previous methods worked until people learned to game the system. Noe people have learned to game the pageranking system.
If you have a wonderful new search algorithm, go make you fortune with it.
Yes, because god forbid I should point out the flaws of a system without having a fully working replacement.
Google's pagerank algorithm may have worked well in the distant past, but it's not 2001 anymore. Things have moved on. We have blogs and trackbacks and - as the article says - comment spam.
What does this mean? It means Google's scoring system is broken. It's time Google implemented a new better system, where blogs count for nothing, and only real sites that people read count for anything. It should not be up to the users top change the functionality of the internet to boost a greedy corporations profits.
On all platforms. At least all of them that meet the C standard. If you have K&R 2nd edition, look at p. 102, where it says this:
Does K&R (or any other standard) state what printf should do in terms of input checking? It's possible that there is at least one implementation that has a NULL pointer check.
I'e used GIS files which had less than 50% data to XML formatting in them and when you're looking at gigs of data that's a criminal waste of space and time.
Perhaps, but to be fair, XML compresses well, and if you're using that much data, there's usually no good reason not to use some sort of compression.
Contract states that company is allowed to use product of employee's work freely, but not resell
Why not?
How about company get rights to use it on a non-exclusive basis. Or even company gets full rights, employee gets a reasonable cut. The company paid for the development work after all. The employee is free to work on their own projects at home.
Yeah. Me too. Funny that. Nice of you to count again though. Precision is important.
Your post is titled, "4 reasons this guy is wrong". You list 3.
Count 'em again.
"Economics and mathematics are totally different subjects". Calculus and Physics are totally different subjects, yet they both heavily rely upon math. Perhaps you have not taken enough economics courses to understand how much math is involved...
If you count mixing wild speculation and simple arithmetic as maths, I'll agree.
Did you even RTFA? The president was referring to data prepared for the conference. His statement was not founded upon his child's preference of playtoys.
So why did he bring it up?
He makes a grandiose statement about gender differences without relying on any actual studies
Economics and mathematics are totally different subjects.
How a child plays with her toys has no bearing at all on how good she will beat mathematics.
What techincal challenges would there be to extending the upper deck of a 747 to carry a few more people? They already did this with the 746-300. Could it be stretched all the way to the tail?
It's only the same thing from the point of view of the business. From the PoV of the punter, if your house catches fire, you just get just to keep your house.