This is why companies like Dell have the "extended service plan", or whatever they choose to call it. A coworker's cat knocked over a glass of water onto his Dell laptop and fried it. He paid extra for the service plan, and after calling support, they quickly did some troubleshooting and said that someone would come out to replace the motherboard. (he didn't tell them about the water, and they didn't ask)
I am guessing that if he had just purchased it off of eBay, or from BestBuy, he wouldn't have gotten that kind of service. He bought it through our company's PC purchase plan, and we buy a lot of systems. Maybe it is because of that, maybe he just got lucky.
Maybe companies got tired of people trying to rip them off, and they only really listen to those who can afford to pay for the service plan.
You say that "it would not be used against a legitimate programmer...". Bottom line is, it COULD be. How can you say that it woulnd't be? The fact of the matter is, if there is a legal precedent set, it can be used for all kinds of "wrong" things that shouldn't be done.
Who is to say a certain large company, who apparantly is above the law, couldn't sue someone in the Linux community using the DMCA as their backbone?
5. Do you accept help and source code or bug fixes from third parties? Do you put restrictions to third parties regarding coding style etc?
Robert Szeleney: Until version 3.0, SkyOS was open source. But now, I don`t want SkyOS to be open source. I put so many work
into this project, that I don`t want to give to source away. But I accept project members. If someone want to code for SkyOS he
can have source. Also, I accept source codes and bugfixes for SkyOS. I don`t put restrictions for coding style. If someone coded
for example a new driver, I will change the code to fit into the whole SkyOS coding style.
I am beginning to think that the people at Micropoly are starting to believe their own drivel. I really have to wonder what the tech people within the company think of these statements. All of these asinine comments come from management and PR types. I would be embarassed to work for a company that treated the public the way M$ does, like idiotic sheep.
Your quotes make sense only if there is an enemy. If there is no "enemy" then the whole argument collapses. Linus has no enemies - he just does what he does.
Read his book, you really get the idea that he doesn't really care about all the hoo-hah. He just wanted to make a great OS, simply to do it.
Personally, I love his philosophy. He doesn't try to tell everyone else how things should be, he just does them the way he sees fit.
A tradegy is a tradegy, none are funny. I obviously wasn't making fun of the situation, I was poking fun at the name Kursk, and more pointedly, the title that was given to the article. (and even more to the way it sounds to the American tongue, and even further yet, the way it sounds like a cartoon character's method of speech)
Nowhere did I make fun of the situation.
That isn't funny.
I am not apologizing, but there is enough hate and namecalling on this speck in the universe, no need to fuel it. Chill, have a cold one on me.
*plink*
Ay, the kursk has been lifted, eh?
That'll teachk me to eats me spinach and go punckin mummies. I needs to go find Olive Oyl, I tolds her it didn't happen to every guy, that I was kursked.
Man, seeing all the cool stuff from these shows every year really makes me wonder what the used market is like in Japan, and how many of these things are obsolete in a year or two. And I mean really obsolete, as in they just don't work anymore. Are they so cutting edge that you might buy something that is useless in a year or two?
Apart from the fact that this doesn't affect me, why would they do this to one of the largest selling acts out there? Don't they have the largest selling album over a single weekend? If anything, N'Sync is a testament to the fact that even though there are rippers and downloaders out there, people will still buy CDs from stores.
But if you are going to do a market study on a group, I guess you would want to test it out on one of the biggest selling groups out there.
Let's hope that it crashes and burns, and people, including parents, get up in arms about it.
I think the biggest problem with college courses, in CS anyway, is that they teach PROGRAMMING, and not SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT. There is such a huge difference.
The best course I took was a senior level class called Software Engineering. I worked with 3 other guys on a project all semester, and we didn't write a line of code. We had to come up with requirements, a schedule, a budget, test plans, designs, etc. But we didn't write any code at all. The goal wasn't to program, it was to design software. There is so much more that goes into software in real world companies.
I don't even know if they still offer that course, it was back in '92. I still have the book from it. I ended up getting into Quality Assurance, which they DEFINITELY don't teach you in school.
When I interviewed at Motorola after I graduated, I brought my project from that class. I was to interview with 5 or 6 people throughout the day. I showed the project to the first person I interviewed with, and she said to make sure I showed every other person I talked to. I later found out that it was a big part in getting me the job.
You can talk all you want about "being able to work in a team" but until you do it, you don't know how tough it can be. Organizing, planning around people's schedules, and yes, dealing with people who aren't as motivated as you are all real world applications.
Maybe things have changed in college since I was there (there was no internet back then - ack!). But knowing that the instructors probably are having a hard enough time keeping up with trends, they probably haven't. I think in addition to programming, they should teach sound software engineering principles as well.
You are hereby requested to cease and desist using the acronym WMA, as it is not compliant with Microsoft® Corporation's current legal trademark notation. The new acronym shall henceforth be referred to as MRWMTMA, for Microsoft® Windows Media(TM) Audio format.
Why on earth would you need net access in class? I could see how it might enhance some classes, but for the most part, you don't need it. I am not THAT old, (going to be 32), but real internet access didn't even exist when I was in college. Unless you count FTP sites.:-) And it sure wasn't necessary in the classroom.
Come on. My fiancee is teaching at a university, and I get to hear all the horror stories about how lazy students are today. I get to see it in their homework - they can't even follow simple directions and they just don't seem to care! If anything, they need LESS distractions in the classrooms. Cell phones and pagers are a big enough problem.
Haven't people realized how friggin superficial their "problems" are, and how everyone is always bitching about how their "rights" are being infringed? Wahhh, you can't surf the net during class. Maybe if your mommy and daddy weren't paying for everything for you, and you had to pay your own damn way through school, you might care a little more about actually getting an education!!
This is so far reaching, considering that foreign companies would have to manufacture "approved" devices. If actually enforced, it would affect nearly everything, including cars. Who exactly would be in charge of "approving" these devices?
There are many more questions than solutions.
Do they even REALIZE how many digital devices there are out there? It goes wayyyyy beyond CD and DVD players. It even applies to FUTURE products!
They are still working on the EULA...
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Please. That assumes that everyone who buys CDRs is using them to burn music. What about backups? What about photo CDs? What about documents? What about all the other myraid of uses of CDRs?
Now I am not naive, and I use them to burn audio CDs too. But I am not a big downloader of MP3s, I have a large CD collection, as does my fiancee. It is legal (and rightfully so) for me to burn a copy of a CD I bought for use in my car.
*If* someone were using CDRs to burn illegal copies of CDs and selling them, the only thing taxing CDRs would do is shrink their profit a little. Unless the goal is to make CDRs unaffordable for the average person, which would be really really bad.
Michael
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That is why pr0n is so prevalent on the net, people are communicating! ROFL. When I want to send my mom a message thanking her for my birthday card, I just hide that message within a fisting photo.
If anyone wants more info on this kind of thing (information hiding) pick up a book by Simon Singh . I recommend The Code Book.
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Maybe it is standard practice to send a notification like this, maybe not - I really don't know. But I commend them for doing it. Do you think Micropoly would ever do anything like this for their customers?
Sure, AMD is probably doing it to make more money, but as long as they keep making processors that make the boys at Intel sweat, I say more power to them.
BTW, one of my best friends works for Intel in quality control in processor manufacturing, and he is pissed at me for having an AMD900, 650, and Duron700.:-)
I wonder how much money it actually takes to filter/block questionable (in their minds) content. I think it would be much easier, and would therefore be pretty cost effective. You control the infrastructure, you control all the users of it. I suppose it might take more time and knowledge, but overall I think it is a much more effective way of controlling people. They can monitor people and track them down very easily. Pretty scary.
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With all of the other atrocities that governments do (including the US Gov) people get upset about them limiting or filtering electronic content?
What, now that someone in China may not be able to bid on your collection of Playboys on eBay, it is time to stand up?
Puh-lease. Rape, spy, kill, cheat, lie, steal, oppress - but don't limit our internet access! I know, the internet should be free, but a lot of things "should" be. Let's get everyone some food, shelter, and safe living conditions before we worry about whether they can ride the information superhighway. (haven't heard that term in a LONG time):-)
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes. -- Oscar Wilde
Give the "15 year olds" time, and they will have experience. What was I doing at 15? That was over half my life ago, it is hard to remember. Worrying about getting a driver's licence, if I would ever get laid, why I couldn't get all the points on the bonus levels of Galaga, how to throw a curve ball, etc. I didn't really have a life, and now kids have one online, even though it isn't real. They'll figure it out, or they won't make it. Eventually they will have to interact with real people, and will be in for a shock. But they are willing to jump in with both feet, and by doing so make mistakes. They can learn from them, and get better, or crawl into their own little world and become outcasts. We had the same thing, technology is just an added pressure. Does anyone care that I sucked at Defender? (not now, but I felt like a dumbass then)
Bottom line is that people still have to learn how to interact with other people, that is what our society is based on. They'll grow up, they don't have much of a choice.
The RIAA demands 100% blockage.
Napster agrees (knowing it really isn't possible).
Someone from the RIAA successfully posts a copyrighted song.
Napster violates the agreement. Bye-bye Napster.
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I am guessing that if he had just purchased it off of eBay, or from BestBuy, he wouldn't have gotten that kind of service. He bought it through our company's PC purchase plan, and we buy a lot of systems. Maybe it is because of that, maybe he just got lucky.
Maybe companies got tired of people trying to rip them off, and they only really listen to those who can afford to pay for the service plan.
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Who is to say a certain large company, who apparantly is above the law, couldn't sue someone in the Linux community using the DMCA as their backbone?
Nahh, they wouldn't do that.
Would they?
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5. Do you accept help and source code or bug fixes from third parties? Do you put restrictions to third parties regarding coding style etc?
Robert Szeleney: Until version 3.0, SkyOS was open source. But now, I don`t want SkyOS to be open source. I put so many work into this project, that I don`t want to give to source away. But I accept project members. If someone want to code for SkyOS he can have source. Also, I accept source codes and bugfixes for SkyOS. I don`t put restrictions for coding style. If someone coded for example a new driver, I will change the code to fit into the whole SkyOS coding style.
gosand (bracing for the "all your base" comments)
gosand
Read his book, you really get the idea that he doesn't really care about all the hoo-hah. He just wanted to make a great OS, simply to do it.
Personally, I love his philosophy. He doesn't try to tell everyone else how things should be, he just does them the way he sees fit.
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A tradegy is a tradegy, none are funny. I obviously wasn't making fun of the situation, I was poking fun at the name Kursk, and more pointedly, the title that was given to the article. (and even more to the way it sounds to the American tongue, and even further yet, the way it sounds like a cartoon character's method of speech)
Nowhere did I make fun of the situation. That isn't funny.
I am not apologizing, but there is enough hate and namecalling on this speck in the universe, no need to fuel it. Chill, have a cold one on me. *plink*
Ask your local MCSE, they'll tell you.
ROFL.
Man, seeing all the cool stuff from these shows every year really makes me wonder what the used market is like in Japan, and how many of these things are obsolete in a year or two. And I mean really obsolete, as in they just don't work anymore. Are they so cutting edge that you might buy something that is useless in a year or two?
Please, wake up.
But if you are going to do a market study on a group, I guess you would want to test it out on one of the biggest selling groups out there.
Let's hope that it crashes and burns, and people, including parents, get up in arms about it.
Michael
Fight the Monopoly and the Evil. . More at Poundingsand.com
The best course I took was a senior level class called Software Engineering. I worked with 3 other guys on a project all semester, and we didn't write a line of code. We had to come up with requirements, a schedule, a budget, test plans, designs, etc. But we didn't write any code at all. The goal wasn't to program, it was to design software. There is so much more that goes into software in real world companies.
I don't even know if they still offer that course, it was back in '92. I still have the book from it. I ended up getting into Quality Assurance, which they DEFINITELY don't teach you in school.
When I interviewed at Motorola after I graduated, I brought my project from that class. I was to interview with 5 or 6 people throughout the day. I showed the project to the first person I interviewed with, and she said to make sure I showed every other person I talked to. I later found out that it was a big part in getting me the job.
You can talk all you want about "being able to work in a team" but until you do it, you don't know how tough it can be. Organizing, planning around people's schedules, and yes, dealing with people who aren't as motivated as you are all real world applications.
Maybe things have changed in college since I was there (there was no internet back then - ack!). But knowing that the instructors probably are having a hard enough time keeping up with trends, they probably haven't. I think in addition to programming, they should teach sound software engineering principles as well.
Michael
Fight the monopoly and the evil
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When compiled and run, it prints out the 12 days of Christmas.
12days.c
And this one is has very interesting source, I think it calculates pi.
pi.c
You are hereby requested to cease and desist using the acronym WMA, as it is not compliant with Microsoft® Corporation's current legal trademark notation. The new acronym shall henceforth be referred to as MRWMTMA, for Microsoft® Windows Media(TM) Audio format.
Thank you. All your base are belong to us.
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Come on. My fiancee is teaching at a university, and I get to hear all the horror stories about how lazy students are today. I get to see it in their homework - they can't even follow simple directions and they just don't seem to care! If anything, they need LESS distractions in the classrooms. Cell phones and pagers are a big enough problem.
Haven't people realized how friggin superficial their "problems" are, and how everyone is always bitching about how their "rights" are being infringed? Wahhh, you can't surf the net during class. Maybe if your mommy and daddy weren't paying for everything for you, and you had to pay your own damn way through school, you might care a little more about actually getting an education!!
Michael
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Do they even REALIZE how many digital devices there are out there? It goes wayyyyy beyond CD and DVD players. It even applies to FUTURE products!
Surely this cannot become a reality.
Michael
Creator of Micro$oft's new logo as well as other stuff at Pounding Sand
Michael
Now I am not naive, and I use them to burn audio CDs too. But I am not a big downloader of MP3s, I have a large CD collection, as does my fiancee. It is legal (and rightfully so) for me to burn a copy of a CD I bought for use in my car.
*If* someone were using CDRs to burn illegal copies of CDs and selling them, the only thing taxing CDRs would do is shrink their profit a little. Unless the goal is to make CDRs unaffordable for the average person, which would be really really bad.
Michael
M$ = Monopoly? Check out "Micropoly" at Pounding Sand Tshirts.
If anyone wants more info on this kind of thing (information hiding) pick up a book by Simon Singh . I recommend The Code Book.
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Sure, AMD is probably doing it to make more money, but as long as they keep making processors that make the boys at Intel sweat, I say more power to them.
BTW, one of my best friends works for Intel in quality control in processor manufacturing, and he is pissed at me for having an AMD900, 650, and Duron700. :-)
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What, now that someone in China may not be able to bid on your collection of Playboys on eBay, it is time to stand up?
Puh-lease. Rape, spy, kill, cheat, lie, steal, oppress - but don't limit our internet access! I know, the internet should be free, but a lot of things "should" be. Let's get everyone some food, shelter, and safe living conditions before we worry about whether they can ride the information superhighway. (haven't heard that term in a LONG time) :-)
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Give the "15 year olds" time, and they will have experience. What was I doing at 15? That was over half my life ago, it is hard to remember. Worrying about getting a driver's licence, if I would ever get laid, why I couldn't get all the points on the bonus levels of Galaga, how to throw a curve ball, etc.
I didn't really have a life, and now kids have one online, even though it isn't real. They'll figure it out, or they won't make it. Eventually they will have to interact with real people, and will be in for a shock. But they are willing to jump in with both feet, and by doing so make mistakes. They can learn from them, and get better, or crawl into their own little world and become outcasts.
We had the same thing, technology is just an added pressure. Does anyone care that I sucked at Defender? (not now, but I felt like a dumbass then)
Bottom line is that people still have to learn how to interact with other people, that is what our society is based on. They'll grow up, they don't have much of a choice.
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The RIAA demands 100% blockage.
Napster agrees (knowing it really isn't possible).
Someone from the RIAA successfully posts a copyrighted song.
Napster violates the agreement. Bye-bye Napster.