Good thing nobody told these kids that their layman's understanding of geometry and trig wasn't sufficient to come up with something the "experts" hadn't already thought up.
If you're a physicist and can offer some genuine critique do so. Don't tear the guy apart just because he is smart enough to ask for someone more knowledgeable to evaluate his ideas.
As long as the policy doesn't impact your pay or employment status... who cares?
As I see it, if your employer wants to pay you to be less productive, that's their problem, not yours.
Don't worry, it will probably only take a couple weeks after the policy becomes effective for them to give you the tools you need (read: employer supplied pager-type-gizmo or cell phone)
An engineer, a manger and a programmer are all riding in a taxi when it begins to race out of control down a large hill. The taxi driver manages to slow the taxi to a stop by running into a row of bushes at which point the three passengers quickly jump out. The engineer pulls out a pocket knife, crawls under the car and begins inspecting the brakes. The manager paces back and forth talking on his cell phone while the programmer stands by looking at the other two with a semi-confused look on his face.
After a minute or two, the manager says "I think the solution is to hold a meeting to discuss the failures that led up to this failure with a follow-up meeting to discuss how to prevent such an event in the future." The engineer says, "I think there must be a design flaw in the braking system and it will need to be redesigned." The computer programmer still looking semi-confused says "I think we should take the car up to the top of the hill and see if it happens again."
And my favorite, "We know the existing system is fundamentally flawed but we don't have {time, resources, know-how} to fix it, so you'll have to work around it."
Depends on where you live. In the midwest $60k a year is an okay income considering the cost of living is fairly low... Of course, I may feel differently if I reach my mid 30's and am only making $60k/year
FWIW, the 2000 census puts the median wage for a 4 person family right for the country at $62k. I had access to salary information at my old job and I can tell you from first hand knowledge the wages ranged from about $32,000 (Help Desk Tech.) to about $98,000(Sr. Software Developers) You want more than $100,000k/year - nothing but management.
It seems to me IT workers in their mid to late 30's (10-15 years of IT experience) are "prime" for bailing out. I figure that's about the time when one begins to realize, "my $60k a year job hasn't outpaced inflation for the past five years. I better change up, or plan on retiring like this."
I don't know about the rest of you, but I don't even try to fool myself by thinking "I'm going to do this until I retire". I've been employeed continuiously (and happily) as a programmer for the past 6 years, but I'm already planning career number two. Going to jump fields completely sometime in the next 3-5 years (if economic conditions don't force my hand sooner).
Include detail regarding what task your performed and how long it took. Make sure your hourly rate is *at least* equivalent to what you were paid while under their employ.
If they don't pay, take them to small claims court.
It may sound spiteful, but if you don't get paid for your work they're gonna keep doing this to you. (Why pay for the cow when you can get the milk for free?)
You have a good point about the equipment to play these new "Super CDs". However, I disagree with your comment on the semantics of price and cost. They only differ with frame of reference. Since my orginal post was with respect to the consumer cost and price have the same meaning.
Quite frankly, I don't care what it costs the record companies to produce a [insert media type here] unless it directly impacts my cost;)
Cost - An amount paid or required in payment for a purchase; a price. Price - The amount as of money or goods, asked for or given in exchange for something else.
It seems to me, the cost of CDs is a sore point with some (many?) consumers already. Why would anyone think think those same consumers would rush out to adopt a new technology that's likey going to be more expensive?
RIAA:Now that we consumers are protected by fair use, we feel that we are entitled to protect our works.
If this passes, doesn't anyone else think it will be followed by further attempts to leagalize P2P hacking? Kind of along the lines of "now that the RIAA has given consessions to consumers, now they expect the 'favor' returned"
No that hard... Use a lawyer as a middle man. Bound by client confidentiality, they would be unable to disclose who wired the money to them. All the Univesity knows is they recieved a $1M wire from some lawyer.
Larry Ellison is crazy enough to do something like that just for giggles.
If my net worth was >$30B, it would be worth a $1M to be pain in the ass to the RIAA, MPAA, et al.
My second guess would be Steve Jobs, because he's crazy and has finiancial incentive (can you say iPod?)
Its such a tired argument...
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Maybe what the music industry really needs is quality music at low prices (less than $10.00USD) so the cost of copying music is greater than buying it off the shelf...
Think about this: When was the last time you copied a VHS video that could be purchased at your local discount retailer for $7.99USD?
rules are made to be broken,
encrypted data is made to be cracked.
I read somewhere (though I can't find the source) that CompuServe's subscriber base (~2 Million users) is about 10% of AOL's total subscriber base. I believe the same article also mentioned that a very small number of AOL users have received a version of AOL with Gecko.
One thing to keep in mind is the UserAgent string probably still registers as "AOL 7.0" making it difficult to track the users...
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Good thing nobody told these kids that their layman's understanding of geometry and trig wasn't sufficient to come up with something the "experts" hadn't already thought up.
If you're a physicist and can offer some genuine critique do so. Don't tear the guy apart just because he is smart enough to ask for someone more knowledgeable to evaluate his ideas.
Now all we need is a tool that will take a user's brain and turn it into solid requirements.
As long as the policy doesn't impact your pay or employment status... who cares?
As I see it, if your employer wants to pay you to be less productive, that's their problem, not yours.
Don't worry, it will probably only take a couple weeks after the policy becomes effective for them to give you the tools you need (read: employer supplied pager-type-gizmo or cell phone)
An engineer, a manger and a programmer are all riding in a taxi when it begins to race out of control down a large hill. The taxi driver manages to slow the taxi to a stop by running into a row of bushes at which point the three passengers quickly jump out. The engineer pulls out a pocket knife, crawls under the car and begins inspecting the brakes. The manager paces back and forth talking on his cell phone while the programmer stands by looking at the other two with a semi-confused look on his face.
After a minute or two, the manager says "I think the solution is to hold a meeting to discuss the failures that led up to this failure with a follow-up meeting to discuss how to prevent such an event in the future." The engineer says, "I think there must be a design flaw in the braking system and it will need to be redesigned." The computer programmer still looking semi-confused says "I think we should take the car up to the top of the hill and see if it happens again."
And here I thought he was just an electronic music whiz
Oh wait...
(Laugh because it's funny, laugh because its dumb, either way I couldn't resist.)
The real CSI folks don't show up to crime scenes in a Hummer H2, talking on their Nextel i90c?
This is just an uprising of disgruntled left-handed physicists against the oppression of the "right-hand rule"
Dunno where they get their stuff from but they've been there for 20+ years and have some very cool (and odd) stuff.
Don't waste the USPS's time with the "return to sender" game.
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According to this it probably won't make it back to the sender anyway...
And my favorite, "We know the existing system is fundamentally flawed but we don't have {time, resources, know-how} to fix it, so you'll have to work around it."
Apparently it will also have a 'reheat' option as well as a pleasant two tone chime to indicate when its done...
Depends on where you live. In the midwest $60k a year is an okay income considering the cost of living is fairly low... Of course, I may feel differently if I reach my mid 30's and am only making $60k/year
FWIW, the 2000 census puts the median wage for a 4 person family right for the country at $62k. I had access to salary information at my old job and I can tell you from first hand knowledge the wages ranged from about $32,000 (Help Desk Tech.) to about $98,000(Sr. Software Developers) You want more than $100,000k/year - nothing but management.
It seems to me IT workers in their mid to late 30's (10-15 years of IT experience) are "prime" for bailing out. I figure that's about the time when one begins to realize, "my $60k a year job hasn't outpaced inflation for the past five years. I better change up, or plan on retiring like this."
I don't know about the rest of you, but I don't even try to fool myself by thinking "I'm going to do this until I retire". I've been employeed continuiously (and happily) as a programmer for the past 6 years, but I'm already planning career number two. Going to jump fields completely sometime in the next 3-5 years (if economic conditions don't force my hand sooner).
According to RIAA President Hillary Rosen, "107% of the music consumers surveyed believe our statistics."
I'm thinking this thing would be a great replacement for the woodchipper..
Send them a bill for services rendered.
Include detail regarding what task your performed and how long it took. Make sure your hourly rate is *at least* equivalent to what you were paid while under their employ. If they don't pay, take them to small claims court.
It may sound spiteful, but if you don't get paid for your work they're gonna keep doing this to you. (Why pay for the cow when you can get the milk for free?)
With these puppies my MP3 collection will fit on only 3 disks! :p
You have a good point about the equipment to play these new "Super CDs". However, I disagree with your comment on the semantics of price and cost. They only differ with frame of reference. Since my orginal post was with respect to the consumer cost and price have the same meaning.
;)
Quite frankly, I don't care what it costs the record companies to produce a [insert media type here] unless it directly impacts my cost
Cost - An amount paid or required in payment for a purchase; a price.
Price - The amount as of money or goods, asked for or given in exchange for something else.
Ignoring the copyright issues for a second...
It seems to me, the cost of CDs is a sore point with some (many?) consumers already. Why would anyone think think those same consumers would rush out to adopt a new technology that's likey going to be more expensive?
I can see it now...
RIAA: Now that we consumers are protected by fair use, we feel that we are entitled to protect our works.
If this passes, doesn't anyone else think it will be followed by further attempts to leagalize P2P hacking? Kind of along the lines of "now that the RIAA has given consessions to consumers, now they expect the 'favor' returned"
No that hard... Use a lawyer as a middle man. Bound by client confidentiality, they would be unable to disclose who wired the money to them. All the Univesity knows is they recieved a $1M wire from some lawyer.
Larry Ellison is crazy enough to do something like that just for giggles.
If my net worth was >$30B, it would be worth a $1M to be pain in the ass to the RIAA, MPAA, et al.
My second guess would be Steve Jobs, because he's crazy and has finiancial incentive (can you say iPod?)
Maybe what the music industry really needs is quality music at low prices (less than $10.00USD) so the cost of copying music is greater than buying it off the shelf...
Think about this: When was the last time you copied a VHS video that could be purchased at your local discount retailer for $7.99USD?
rules are made to be broken,
encrypted data is made to be cracked.
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I read somewhere (though I can't find the source) that CompuServe's subscriber base (~2 Million users) is about 10% of AOL's total subscriber base. I believe the same article also mentioned that a very small number of AOL users have received a version of AOL with Gecko.
One thing to keep in mind is the UserAgent string probably still registers as "AOL 7.0" making it difficult to track the users...
I suspect they haven't done it yet because of the potential support nightmare that could follow.
FWIW, AOL has started bundling Gecko with CompuServe, reportedly to use as a test market before deploying to all AOL subscribers (see this article)