Do you underwrite the growing feeling that the lives and liberties of normal citizens are increasingly being curtailed by the interests of large corporations and special interest groups, or is it your opinion that these corporations and special interest groups are representative of the American people at large?
Interesting stuff, but it reeks of "These foreigners are stealing our jobs". Even if imported labour is cheaper and relatively easy to come by, I don't beleive for a second that a talented programmer need be unemployed against his or her will for longer than it takes to go to geekfinder, while this does seem to be the sword the author is holding over our heads.
I know for myself that the only way I can get skilled programmers is by stealing them away from other companies. Granted I'm not in the US, but stil. ..
By the way, interesting little quote here:
Twenty years after graduation from college, only 19% of computer science majors are still employed as programmers. This compares, for instance, to a figure 57% of civil
engineering majors who are still working as civil engineers 20 years after leaving school.
20 years? Hardly surprising. Whatever a CS learned at college 20 years ago looks little like what programmers do today, and I dare suppose the environment they worked in was a damn slight different. In all honesty, without having read it in full, this whole article strikes me as a rather clever bit of reverse engineering by somebody with a hidden agenda.
Nothing but props. These things, each and every one of them, look like rejects from the decor department of Voyager: the aqua Generation. Call me old fashioned, but I like my tech goodies to be black and matte. I do not want them to look like chemical filled, cavity inducing candy. Set mock-ups to stun!
On a less critical note, I tried to find some info on this j-phone thingie, but couldn't find anything in English. Nor could I find any product images. Could anybody take the time to have a look at www.j-phone-west.com and give us some BG info?
Our cube is our home. Every time we reenter our cube we are filled with the voices of the others. They give our life meaning, fill the void, expand our knowledge.
From our cube we search far and wide for technology and species that will add to our perfection. Away from our cube we are incomplete, but in our cube we are whole. Stress is irrelevant.
This saga has been going on a while, and from what I've heard Express.com has been doing every damn thing they can to keep lowtax from geeting his well deserved (imo) cash. At first they didn't deny he was owed money, but just blatantly failed to pay. Then, they refused to pay him because he had been posting derogatory remarks about Gamefan's business practices. Now, and only now, are they stating that they don't owe him anything based on this utterly lame legal loophole. I can imagine how pissed Lowtax must be. And Voodoo extreme. And UU.
You can read the small print all you want, but this reeks of a sleazy lawyer peering through them himself in a desperate attempt to find a loophole that will allow GameFan to wiggle their way out of paying what must be hundreds of thousands of dollars by now.
By the way, proud as he may be, lowtax is accepting donations. If you appreciate the site, you may want to help him out.
I have a rather novel way of circumventing this diabolic scheme. It's called a zerox:) Barcodes are surprisingly easy to copy and surprisingly hard to secure.
There are even barcode generator plugins available for many popular packages.
. ..here?
Let's just grab the first one, shall we.
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A method for decoding addresses on a bus which provides a burst transfer mode which may be utilized for rapidly transferring commands to sequential addresses, the method including the steps of:
addressing a sequence of commands intended for the same address to a sequence of serial addresses, transferring the commands on the bus utilizing the burst transfer mode, and decoding all of the serial sequence of commands to the same destination.
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So, if I understand correctly this patent not only covers every kind of burst transfer ever, but also describes nothing other than the process of actually using a burst transfer mode. Literally the patent seems to be on nothing other than a linear transfer of data over a bus. Thank you nVidia. Exactly what we needed. I haven't looked into the other ones, but I'm sure one of them involves "a method for decoding digital information and displaying said information on a CRT or other human-readable display device", and there's bound to be one on the obscure and unobvious topic of "decoding digital coordinates and rendering them to a representation of 3D space which may then be displayed on a CRT", one on "a method for simulating depth in a two dimensional field by making things that are far away smaller".
In short, I'm getting a bit wound up about the blatant abuse of a system originally conceived to protect bona fide inventors.
Slashdot Mirror
Do you underwrite the growing feeling that the lives and liberties of normal citizens are increasingly being curtailed by the interests of large corporations and special interest groups, or is it your opinion that these corporations and special interest groups are representative of the American people at large?
Interesting stuff, but it reeks of "These foreigners are stealing our jobs". Even if imported labour is cheaper and relatively easy to come by, I don't beleive for a second that a talented programmer need be unemployed against his or her will for longer than it takes to go to geekfinder, while this does seem to be the sword the author is holding over our heads. .
I know for myself that the only way I can get skilled programmers is by stealing them away from other companies. Granted I'm not in the US, but stil. .
By the way, interesting little quote here:
Twenty years after graduation from college, only 19% of computer science majors are still employed as programmers. This compares, for instance, to a figure 57% of civil engineering majors who are still working as civil engineers 20 years after leaving school.
20 years? Hardly surprising. Whatever a CS learned at college 20 years ago looks little like what programmers do today, and I dare suppose the environment they worked in was a damn slight different. In all honesty, without having read it in full, this whole article strikes me as a rather clever bit of reverse engineering by somebody with a hidden agenda.
Nothing but props. These things, each and every one of them, look like rejects from the decor department of Voyager: the aqua Generation. Call me old fashioned, but I like my tech goodies to be black and matte. I do not want them to look like chemical filled, cavity inducing candy. Set mock-ups to stun!
On a less critical note, I tried to find some info on this j-phone thingie, but couldn't find anything in English. Nor could I find any product images. Could anybody take the time to have a look at www.j-phone-west.com and give us some BG info?
TNX,
Daikiki
Our cube is our home. Every time we reenter our cube we are filled with the voices of the others. They give our life meaning, fill the void, expand our knowledge.
From our cube we search far and wide for technology and species that will add to our perfection. Away from our cube we are incomplete, but in our cube we are whole. Stress is irrelevant.
This saga has been going on a while, and from what I've heard Express.com has been doing every damn thing they can to keep lowtax from geeting his well deserved (imo) cash. At first they didn't deny he was owed money, but just blatantly failed to pay. Then, they refused to pay him because he had been posting derogatory remarks about Gamefan's business practices. Now, and only now, are they stating that they don't owe him anything based on this utterly lame legal loophole. I can imagine how pissed Lowtax must be. And Voodoo extreme. And UU. You can read the small print all you want, but this reeks of a sleazy lawyer peering through them himself in a desperate attempt to find a loophole that will allow GameFan to wiggle their way out of paying what must be hundreds of thousands of dollars by now. By the way, proud as he may be, lowtax is accepting donations. If you appreciate the site, you may want to help him out.
I have a rather novel way of circumventing this diabolic scheme. It's called a zerox :) Barcodes are surprisingly easy to copy and surprisingly hard to secure.
There are even barcode generator plugins available for many popular packages.
*dons asbestos suit, welder's mask* Can you imagine a Beowulf cluster of these things? *ducks*
. . .here?
Let's just grab the first one, shall we.
--
A method for decoding addresses on a bus which provides a burst transfer mode which may be utilized for rapidly transferring commands to sequential addresses, the method including the steps of:
addressing a sequence of commands intended for the same address to a sequence of serial addresses, transferring the commands on the bus utilizing the burst transfer mode, and decoding all of the serial sequence of commands to the same destination.
--
So, if I understand correctly this patent not only covers every kind of burst transfer ever, but also describes nothing other than the process of actually using a burst transfer mode. Literally the patent seems to be on nothing other than a linear transfer of data over a bus. Thank you nVidia. Exactly what we needed. I haven't looked into the other ones, but I'm sure one of them involves "a method for decoding digital information and displaying said information on a CRT or other human-readable display device", and there's bound to be one on the obscure and unobvious topic of "decoding digital coordinates and rendering them to a representation of 3D space which may then be displayed on a CRT", one on "a method for simulating depth in a two dimensional field by making things that are far away smaller".
In short, I'm getting a bit wound up about the blatant abuse of a system originally conceived to protect bona fide inventors.