These rulings are so stupid that they make me sick...
What if I do not take a picture at all. What if I go to the location itself, stand there and look at the scenery. I will see the same as what is on the 'copyrighted' picture. I will probably even enjoy it more than just the picture. Can I now be forbidden to see things??
What a total load of balloney this world is turning into.
Post processing is the cheap way out, as it takes otherwise idle CPU time to get the job done. But it has a number of drawbacks and one is restorability.
Think about it..
You have a 1TB disk. You fill it up with data. Windows post-processes this and brings it down to 500GB. Cool! So you add another 500GB and a bit more, and eventually you end up with, say, 2TB worth of data on a 1TB disk. Obviously you are a prudent admin, so you make backups of your data. 2TB backups.
And then it happens. The drive dies. Luckily you have a spare disk, so you quickly put a fresh 1TB disk in. And you start restoring.. Guess what happens at 50% of your restore?? *DISK FULL*... So either you have to buy double the amount of disk, or you have to pause the restore each time just before the disk fills up, let Windows redo its post-processing dedupe and continue. Hmmm. Wonder if your boss will like that.
Think twice before you adopt post-processing dedupe
As a 48-year old I have never let a requirements list stop me from applying for a job. I have always been able to use an accomplishment list on my end to convince HR that I am qualified for the job. If I had to go interview based on just my education I'd be screwed.
If you are confident you can do the job, make sure your CV reflects that confidence and back it up with real-world experience and accomplishments.
There is zero reason for authors to get repeated income for eternity for work they did once. There is no incentive for authors to stay creative if after an initial hit they get paid forever. If authors today have a difficult time (and gosh they are the only once who are having a rough time right now..) then they should have negotiated a better deal for their services.
I, and most other people in this world, have to work every day to make a living. The work I did yesterday is no guarantee that I do not have to work today. I fail to see why this should be any different for actors, authors, musicians and artists.
Amen! There is nothing wrong with putting in some extra work to make you stand out. The OP needs to decide if he wants short-term or long-term benefit. If he wants his reward now, then he should try and negotiate a reward. If he can settle for later, he needs to see this as an investment.
My personal anecdote: I started out about 20 years ago as a tech support engineer. We provided tools to customers and asked them to run a set of diagnostics before sending product back. The tools were written by engineering and totally incomprehensible for regular customers (hit ctrl-shift-F11, then fill in some hex stuff and read bit 7 for the result).
I wanted a better tool, so I set out to write one. Instead of writing the full implementation, I wrote a mock-up in my own time that showed the user-friendly interface and some basic stuff. My tech support boss was very happy and let me write the rest on his time. My tool became the standard for customer diagnostics for a long time. I continued to write other tools as well.
Eight years ago the company closed my office (I was the last person out). I bought the local lab equipment from them. After 6 months they called me if I could modify one of my old tools to support new products. Sure I could! I became a contractor for their tools. And even to this day I make a nice income on the side supporting their tool sets. The experience I gained has helped me a lot in my career, I landed a number of interesting jobs because of the initial effort and investment I made 20 years ago.
You are spot-on. My modpoints just expired or else I would have modded your comment "Insightful".
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I think you should consider going the opposite route. Optimize your game so it runs 50% faster on the same hardware. Unfortunately it seems that software optimization is an art long gone.
Perhaps a thought.. Since the area around Fukushima is now unsuitable to grow crops and to (re)build cities, how about re-using that area for something sensible? Like building a new nuclear power plant far enough from the ocean front to withstand the next occurrence of such a tsunami, and with safe techniques like Thorium molten salt systems?
In the extremely unlikely event that anything catastrophic happens to such a plant, they already have a 20-mile radius where there's no damage done. And the new technology makes it pretty darn likely that such an event will not turn into a larger catastrophe.
This makes the old small apps even more amazing. They did not have a big O/S to support their function. Open a file, read or write it, send a string to a screen and read a keyboard. That's about it. The app was on it's own.
I wrote a terminal program to access modem BBSes in 1991. All in Z80 assembly, capable of controlling a modem, handling dialup, store numbers, quick dial, you name it. Size: 3.7Kbyte. In contrast, I get a Logitech mouse and it comes with a 20MB driver and 100's of MB utilities. What on earth could be the added value of all that code?!?
I suggest Mr. Motti set an example for us all. Have him install one of these boxes on all computers he personally uses to access the Internet. Better yet, any MEP who agrees with this proposal shall voluntary install these protective devices on their systems. Obviously, the people of Europe have a right to monitor the results of a test like this, so full disclosure online of all logs would be appropriate.
What on earth is the value of a smaller or larger bezel? When is it no longer an infringement? When it is 1mm wider? 3mm? 60cm? Fact of the matter is that a square without buttons is not unique nor new. My Navigon GPS has no buttons, it's square, has a touch screen and existed before the iPad. It can run multiple programs (picture viewer, handsfree kit and moving map navigation).
There is an easy fix for this. Make patents non-transferable. Whomever invents something can claim a patent on the invention and reap the benefits for a limited time. Once the inventor dies, or the company folds or gets bought, the invention becomes public domain.
The real problem is that patents or no longer a means, they are the end.
I have a domain that I use to receive email on. The main email box does not get used at all for incoming our outgoing mail, ever. When I need to sign up to a website (eg www.somesite.com) then I create an alias somesite@mydomain.com and forward it to my regular inbox. I always opt out of newsletters and other stuff. If I ever get spam addressed to somesite@mydomain.com, I know that somesite does not respect my opt out, has been hacked, or their database has been abused. That's the last time I did business with somesite, and the alias disappears.
Europe has treaties that allow any European to buy goods and services in any other country. So all the Germans have to do is buy through a webshop in another country..
Just great. We go visit a planet that isn't ours, and the first thing we do is pollute the atmosphere with propellant, throw trash around ( the rocket lander will land 'somewhere out of the way') and with a bit of luck contaminate the area with radiation if this thing fails to land properly.
Got that right.. My 120HP Jabiru-powered homebuilt RANS S6S plane weighs 325kg empty, 545 MTOW. Does that mean I'd need to strap 1000HP of this engine type to get off the ground? Yeah, really tempting..
As much as I am concerned about Microsoft collecting statistics about me, I am more worried about this text file. What are the chances that Windows actually interprets this file when retrieved? What are that chances that it can be used as a remote command? Of course Microsoft would never do such a thing (..) but it is technically possible.
They have a database with all IP addresses. If they are able to link it to you, they may be able to send you a different file with a different command. They may be able to identify you by triggering a non-standard GET from you. Which may include your license key. Or other information from you. They may even be able to instruct your computer to do things behind your back. And they may even be able to use this as a universal kill switch.
You are right, the tools have become a lot more powerful, and you do not have to dive into the nitty-gritty details anymore to get something done quickly.
However, there's a few downsides as well. My kids (lawn, get off, yeah yeah..) are interested in computers but simply cannot appreciate what goes on under the hood. They have never heard of accumulators, shift registers and carry flags. These same kids will have to advance the technology in a few years time, when they are in R&D labs. I can't imagine they do a good job at making optimal use of the resources that they will have at their disposal by then, simply because they do not understand what goes on inside.
The tools make it easy, but they cause lots of bloat. When I built my own CP/M computer, a buddy designed a graphics card for it and wrote some basic CAD software in the 32K RAM we had. I designed a mouse circuit for it and wrote a mouse driver in about 50 bytes or so. It truly disgusts me when today I buy a mouse and it comes with a 20 Megabyte driver set. That's more than the entire operating system 15 years ago. What is so bloody special about a mouse that it needs 20 million bytes of instructions to function? Left, right, up down, button 1,2,3 up and down. What else??
No-one cares about this anymore. A waste of resources. What a shame.
Although the data is anonymous, it is used to determine the places on the highway where the average speed is the highest. That's where the police sets up their speeding camera. Not where speeding might present the biggest danger, but where the financial reward is the highest.
This confirms once more that speed traps are tax devices and not meant to make traffic any safer.
How can chicken fat be a viable renewable fuel? The energy has to come from somewhere. Corn can be turned into biofuel, but can also be fed to chickens. I can't imagine turning corn into chicken, and then into biofuel is a better way. Not in the least because of the fate of chickens.
Folkes, just because something from nature can be turned into a combustive substance does not mean it is renewable or green.
I own a 35 Euro low quality DVD player. It works with any DVD I insert.
I also own a 200 Euro Sony Blue-Ray player. Bought as part of a home cinema set. This player refuses to play one in every two DVDs I own. Those that do play, turn to blank screen halfway through a movie because the Sony player and the Sony TV can't agree if I am a "thieve" or not.
For me it is clear. DRM and a zealous entertainment industry is what kills new technology.
How is this any better than requiring every citizen to give a copy of their keys to their home, *or* permission to change the locks to the authorities, so the authorities can roam around at will?
This is bloody stupid. All eCommerce companies not hosted in France should immediately and abruptly stop service to the entire French IP range. Today. Let's see them wiggle their way out of *that*..
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These rulings are so stupid that they make me sick...
What if I do not take a picture at all. What if I go to the location itself, stand there and look at the scenery. I will see the same as what is on the 'copyrighted' picture. I will probably even enjoy it more than just the picture. Can I now be forbidden to see things??
What a total load of balloney this world is turning into.
Post processing is the cheap way out, as it takes otherwise idle CPU time to get the job done. But it has a number of drawbacks and one is restorability.
Think about it..
You have a 1TB disk. You fill it up with data. Windows post-processes this and brings it down to 500GB. Cool! So you add another 500GB and a bit more, and eventually you end up with, say, 2TB worth of data on a 1TB disk. Obviously you are a prudent admin, so you make backups of your data. 2TB backups.
And then it happens. The drive dies. Luckily you have a spare disk, so you quickly put a fresh 1TB disk in. And you start restoring..
Guess what happens at 50% of your restore?? *DISK FULL*...
So either you have to buy double the amount of disk, or you have to pause the restore each time just before the disk fills up, let Windows redo its post-processing dedupe and continue. Hmmm. Wonder if your boss will like that.
Think twice before you adopt post-processing dedupe
As a 48-year old I have never let a requirements list stop me from applying for a job. I have always been able to use an accomplishment list on my end to convince HR that I am qualified for the job. If I had to go interview based on just my education I'd be screwed.
If you are confident you can do the job, make sure your CV reflects that confidence and back it up with real-world experience and accomplishments.
There is zero reason for authors to get repeated income for eternity for work they did once. There is no incentive for authors to stay creative if after an initial hit they get paid forever. If authors today have a difficult time (and gosh they are the only once who are having a rough time right now..) then they should have negotiated a better deal for their services.
I, and most other people in this world, have to work every day to make a living. The work I did yesterday is no guarantee that I do not have to work today. I fail to see why this should be any different for actors, authors, musicians and artists.
Amen! There is nothing wrong with putting in some extra work to make you stand out. The OP needs to decide if he wants short-term or long-term benefit. If he wants his reward now, then he should try and negotiate a reward. If he can settle for later, he needs to see this as an investment.
My personal anecdote: I started out about 20 years ago as a tech support engineer. We provided tools to customers and asked them to run a set of diagnostics before sending product back. The tools were written by engineering and totally incomprehensible for regular customers (hit ctrl-shift-F11, then fill in some hex stuff and read bit 7 for the result).
I wanted a better tool, so I set out to write one. Instead of writing the full implementation, I wrote a mock-up in my own time that showed the user-friendly interface and some basic stuff. My tech support boss was very happy and let me write the rest on his time. My tool became the standard for customer diagnostics for a long time. I continued to write other tools as well.
Eight years ago the company closed my office (I was the last person out). I bought the local lab equipment from them. After 6 months they called me if I could modify one of my old tools to support new products. Sure I could! I became a contractor for their tools. And even to this day I make a nice income on the side supporting their tool sets. The experience I gained has helped me a lot in my career, I landed a number of interesting jobs because of the initial effort and investment I made 20 years ago.
You are spot-on. My modpoints just expired or else I would have modded your comment "Insightful".
I think you should consider going the opposite route. Optimize your game so it runs 50% faster on the same hardware. Unfortunately it seems that software optimization is an art long gone.
Murphy must have had an off-day. If Murphy succeeds then two drives within a single RAID-5 set would have failed..
Does this 'patent' not describe the simple mechanism of a closed loop?
Someone please tell me when this kind of nonsense became an innovation?
Thank you! Great explanation.
Perhaps a thought.. Since the area around Fukushima is now unsuitable to grow crops and to (re)build cities, how about re-using that area for something sensible? Like building a new nuclear power plant far enough from the ocean front to withstand the next occurrence of such a tsunami, and with safe techniques like Thorium molten salt systems?
In the extremely unlikely event that anything catastrophic happens to such a plant, they already have a 20-mile radius where there's no damage done. And the new technology makes it pretty darn likely that such an event will not turn into a larger catastrophe.
This makes the old small apps even more amazing. They did not have a big O/S to support their function. Open a file, read or write it, send a string to a screen and read a keyboard. That's about it. The app was on it's own.
I wrote a terminal program to access modem BBSes in 1991. All in Z80 assembly, capable of controlling a modem, handling dialup, store numbers, quick dial, you name it. Size: 3.7Kbyte. In contrast, I get a Logitech mouse and it comes with a 20MB driver and 100's of MB utilities. What on earth could be the added value of all that code?!?
I suggest Mr. Motti set an example for us all. Have him install one of these boxes on all computers he personally uses to access the Internet. Better yet, any MEP who agrees with this proposal shall voluntary install these protective devices on their systems. Obviously, the people of Europe have a right to monitor the results of a test like this, so full disclosure online of all logs would be appropriate.
Let's see how well this works for them..
What on earth is the value of a smaller or larger bezel? When is it no longer an infringement? When it is 1mm wider? 3mm? 60cm? Fact of the matter is that a square without buttons is not unique nor new. My Navigon GPS has no buttons, it's square, has a touch screen and existed before the iPad. It can run multiple programs (picture viewer, handsfree kit and moving map navigation).
Claiming rights on a rectangle is stupid.
There is an easy fix for this. Make patents non-transferable. Whomever invents something can claim a patent on the invention and reap the benefits for a limited time. Once the inventor dies, or the company folds or gets bought, the invention becomes public domain.
The real problem is that patents or no longer a means, they are the end.
I have a domain that I use to receive email on. The main email box does not get used at all for incoming our outgoing mail, ever.
When I need to sign up to a website (eg www.somesite.com) then I create an alias somesite@mydomain.com and forward it to my regular inbox. I always opt out of newsletters and other stuff. If I ever get spam addressed to somesite@mydomain.com, I know that somesite does not respect my opt out, has been hacked, or their database has been abused. That's the last time I did business with somesite, and the alias disappears.
Europe has treaties that allow any European to buy goods and services in any other country. So all the Germans have to do is buy through a webshop in another country..
Just great. We go visit a planet that isn't ours, and the first thing we do is pollute the atmosphere with propellant, throw trash around ( the rocket lander will land 'somewhere out of the way') and with a bit of luck contaminate the area with radiation if this thing fails to land properly.
We come in pieces...
Got that right.. My 120HP Jabiru-powered homebuilt RANS S6S plane weighs 325kg empty, 545 MTOW. Does that mean I'd need to strap 1000HP of this engine type to get off the ground? Yeah, really tempting..
As much as I am concerned about Microsoft collecting statistics about me, I am more worried about this text file. What are the chances that Windows actually interprets this file when retrieved? What are that chances that it can be used as a remote command? Of course Microsoft would never do such a thing (..) but it is technically possible.
They have a database with all IP addresses. If they are able to link it to you, they may be able to send you a different file with a different command. They may be able to identify you by triggering a non-standard GET from you. Which may include your license key. Or other information from you. They may even be able to instruct your computer to do things behind your back. And they may even be able to use this as a universal kill switch.
But I trust they will never do such a thing...
You are right, the tools have become a lot more powerful, and you do not have to dive into the nitty-gritty details anymore to get something done quickly.
However, there's a few downsides as well. My kids (lawn, get off, yeah yeah..) are interested in computers but simply cannot appreciate what goes on under the hood. They have never heard of accumulators, shift registers and carry flags. These same kids will have to advance the technology in a few years time, when they are in R&D labs. I can't imagine they do a good job at making optimal use of the resources that they will have at their disposal by then, simply because they do not understand what goes on inside.
The tools make it easy, but they cause lots of bloat. When I built my own CP/M computer, a buddy designed a graphics card for it and wrote some basic CAD software in the 32K RAM we had. I designed a mouse circuit for it and wrote a mouse driver in about 50 bytes or so. It truly disgusts me when today I buy a mouse and it comes with a 20 Megabyte driver set. That's more than the entire operating system 15 years ago. What is so bloody special about a mouse that it needs 20 million bytes of instructions to function? Left, right, up down, button 1,2,3 up and down. What else??
No-one cares about this anymore. A waste of resources. What a shame.
He can't do that. I own the moon, according to this certificate I bought years ago.
Please have him call me to negotiate a deal first.
Although the data is anonymous, it is used to determine the places on the highway where the average speed is the highest. That's where the police sets up their speeding camera. Not where speeding might present the biggest danger, but where the financial reward is the highest.
This confirms once more that speed traps are tax devices and not meant to make traffic any safer.
How can chicken fat be a viable renewable fuel? The energy has to come from somewhere. Corn can be turned into biofuel, but can also be fed to chickens. I can't imagine turning corn into chicken, and then into biofuel is a better way. Not in the least because of the fate of chickens.
Folkes, just because something from nature can be turned into a combustive substance does not mean it is renewable or green.
I own a 35 Euro low quality DVD player. It works with any DVD I insert.
I also own a 200 Euro Sony Blue-Ray player. Bought as part of a home cinema set. This player refuses to play one in every two DVDs I own. Those that do play, turn to blank screen halfway through a movie because the Sony player and the Sony TV can't agree if I am a "thieve" or not.
For me it is clear. DRM and a zealous entertainment industry is what kills new technology.
How is this any better than requiring every citizen to give a copy of their keys to their home, *or* permission to change the locks to the authorities, so the authorities can roam around at will?
This is bloody stupid. All eCommerce companies not hosted in France should immediately and abruptly stop service to the entire French IP range. Today. Let's see them wiggle their way out of *that*..