So then we can look at ingres's best enterprise features, and implement them in postgresql. No? Oh, then we'de better not even look at the ingres code, otherwise they'll say we stole the stuff.
<joke> 1 patent lawyer thrown in the ocean: pollution. 1000 patent lawyers thrown in the ocean: solution. </joke>
Because you don't have to do anything to download it. Your set top box just does it for you. You think you have to sit there and look at the "17% done, 8h12m remaining" message?
You cue the movies in advance, and as you watch and drop them off the queue, more are downloaded.
I think like this: go to website: www.somerentalmovie.com search for movie. select movie for viewing.
desktop box pings server through net, downloads movie locally to HD while you are still at work. You come home at 6:30 pm, your movie(s) and shows are ready to watch. have 100 gigs of storage or somthing like that.
next day, repeat. I would pay 100 for the set top box, and $3 per film. at that price, I would not pirate, because it would be too much hassle.
Even illegal street vendors could not compete because they would have to sell each dvd for less than 3 and that would not be worth it.
And peer to peer would not be able to compete, because of the ease of use and quality of the product.
Now, if they are really smart, the system would allow for decentralized movie downloading.
for example.
Person A downloads Master and Commander widescreen to set top box (STB) from central server. download takes 12 hours.
Person B queues same movie. A's STB allows port open from B's STB's ip to download that movie.
Eventually, all the users's spare bandwidth is used in carrying all that suff back and forth, and the users don't mind because they're paying monthly fees already anyway.
Put programming at $1 per hour. three hour movie, $3. two hour movie, 2$. 40 minutes sitcom: 40 cents.
People complain because no ad revenue... I say: imagine how many more people can watch your show if they don't have to watch it thrusday at 5:30, but can watch it anytime.
if one taco from one taco company makes you sick and trow up, do you keep going there thinking: well the other one must be just as bad, without even going over there to test it out?
Yes, but ultimately, they are doing the project manager job. Outsource that too, while you're at it.
So they are getting a computer science degree and learning how to do project management. I thought that's what BA in Management with Information Services (MIS) degree was for.
The key is that the current outsourcing providers are getting very good at interfacing with upper management for project management. So teaching CS students how to manage outsource projects when in fact it's only a matter of time before that function is outsourced too.
An American project manager with a CS degree: $75K/yr. A pakistani project manager (in Pakistan) with a CS degree: $22K/yr. You do the math. And the Paki will be more polite and type faster in the IM.
They should launch them unmanned and blow them up. Most spectacularly.
Then they should hire some russian scientists and get something better going.
But I have my doubts as to whether we can continue, storm or no storm. The current vehicles are ageing an will need to be eliminated, because I would rather they have an accident on the ground in 140 mph wind than at 80,000 feet at 6000 mph with 8 people on board.
Oh wait, we're looking at cheap material/gaudy colors for code farms, to help the corporate tigers squeeze more poductivity from the great unwashed masses.
How do they know it was the library's wifi anyway?
Maybe it was the wifi of the guy across the street. Maybe it was the wifi of the coffee house next to the library.
>Who says they only apply inside the library? There's a sign at Blockbuster's door: "No food or drink". Does it apply to the bus bench at the curb 25 feet from their door? No.
Only if you can demonstrate that library patients were in fact harmed.
Besides, it's a public library. It's there to serve the public. The public is the guy in front of the library with his laptop as much as the guy inside the library with his laptop. There's no such thing as a library patron. The public is the library patron. Some library patrons choose to go in the library, and some choose not to. They are all paying for the library and the bandwidth. Thus the public and the library patrons are one and the same. So if a member of the public is standing oustide the library using the library's wifi, it is absolutely no different than another member of the public standing inside the library using the wifi.
We all pay for the wifi, we should all be able to use it.
(for those of you who argue: he's not from my town, why should he get it? I'll reply: when you're in his town, why should you get it? It's a mutually beneficial trade-off.)
I can't wait for the Zealots to start arguing which distro is best:
-USA Army Linux Combat Integration System -Deutsch Bundeswehr Linux Tactical Strike Module -PRC Linux Command and Control -Al-Quaeda Linux Insurrection III
You know, Mr Torvalds will have to do like Mr Nobel before it's all over.
If you leave your car running, unlocked, with the windows down, and go into a store to buy something, and a thief comes and steals your car. your insurance company will not pay you even though you have theft coverage since you did not exercise common and customary care.
It's wrong of the thief, but stupid of you.
The thief will still get busted if caught, of course, but you will lose too.
Now, about the allegory to your house.
If you were to take your television and put it on the sidewalk, in front of your house. It still belongs to you (you paid for it) and not anyone else (they didn't pay for it). Yet if Jil Smart shows up and takes the TV, she has not stolen it, because you put it on public property, and in doing so you relinquished your property claim.
Same with the wifi.
They can cat5 the building, then this would not happen. Noone is forcing them to use wifi.
> Most of Microsoft's patent portfolio exists solely to protect MS from the lawsuits of other companies.
Actually no. It exists so that VC companies will not fund individuals who have "Great Ideas" because there are MS patents lurking within the realm of said "Great Idea".
They are there to limit innovation.
Let's say Idea A has been discovered and patented by MSFT. Then idea B comes along and is related to idea A. No investor in their right mind will plunk down $15M on idea B.
So it leaves MSFT very able to pick it up later, once blogger and-part time python coder Joe Geek lays it out on his website.
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I have VOD, and it sucks, because there are maybe 200 movies you can pick from.
A more serious number would be 20,000.
Certified mail.
But, did he call the FBI?
So then we can look at ingres's best enterprise features, and implement them in postgresql.
No? Oh, then we'de better not even look at the ingres code, otherwise they'll say we stole the stuff.
<joke>
1 patent lawyer thrown in the ocean: pollution.
1000 patent lawyers thrown in the ocean: solution.
</joke>
Because you don't have to do anything to download it. Your set top box just does it for you. You think you have to sit there and look at the "17% done, 8h12m remaining" message?
You cue the movies in advance, and as you watch and drop them off the queue, more are downloaded.
Plus, then , they might know where you live... Ewwww!!!
I think like this:
go to website: www.somerentalmovie.com
search for movie.
select movie for viewing.
desktop box pings server through net, downloads movie locally to HD while you are still at work. You come home at 6:30 pm, your movie(s) and shows are ready to watch. have 100 gigs of storage or somthing like that.
next day, repeat. I would pay 100 for the set top box, and $3 per film. at that price, I would not pirate, because it would be too much hassle.
Even illegal street vendors could not compete because they would have to sell each dvd for less than 3 and that would not be worth it.
And peer to peer would not be able to compete, because of the ease of use and quality of the product.
Now, if they are really smart, the system would allow for decentralized movie downloading.
for example.
Person A downloads Master and Commander widescreen to set top box (STB) from central server.
download takes 12 hours.
Person B queues same movie. A's STB allows port open from B's STB's ip to download that movie.
Eventually, all the users's spare bandwidth is used in carrying all that suff back and forth, and the users don't mind because they're paying monthly fees already anyway.
Put programming at $1 per hour. three hour movie, $3. two hour movie, 2$. 40 minutes sitcom: 40 cents.
People complain because no ad revenue... I say: imagine how many more people can watch your show if they don't have to watch it thrusday at 5:30, but can watch it anytime.
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if one taco from one taco company makes you sick and trow up, do you keep going there thinking: well the other one must be just as bad, without even going over there to test it out?
Everybody in the tunnel NOW!!!
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Yes, but ultimately, they are doing the project manager job. Outsource that too, while you're at it.
So they are getting a computer science degree and learning how to do project management. I thought that's what BA in Management with Information Services (MIS) degree was for.
The key is that the current outsourcing providers are getting very good at interfacing with upper management for project management. So teaching CS students how to manage outsource projects when in fact it's only a matter of time before that function is outsourced too.
An American project manager with a CS degree: $75K/yr. A pakistani project manager (in Pakistan) with a CS degree: $22K/yr. You do the math.
And the Paki will be more polite and type faster in the IM.
Next time, put the GPL all over it and MS won't join.
You know, you guys could have seen this one coming.
Propose to get another person to take the classes for you. When they say you can't do that, you tell them you're outsourcing.
Then ask them what the differenc is, really. This might turn out into an econ/ethics class, so make sure you got your econ 160 stuff down pat.
They should launch them unmanned and blow them up. Most spectacularly.
Then they should hire some russian scientists and get something better going.
But I have my doubts as to whether we can continue, storm or no storm. The current vehicles are ageing an will need to be eliminated, because I would rather they have an accident on the ground in 140 mph wind than at 80,000 feet at 6000 mph with 8 people on board.
Ohhh, but you know, a car is different. Ownership is based on registration with the State.
almost. that would be ipoductivity
I meme coming.
do think cute?
Unfinished pine, oak, mahogany, leather.
For the walls, well, original paintings.
For the floor: 1 inch shag, eggshell.
Oh wait, we're looking at cheap material/gaudy colors for code farms, to help the corporate tigers squeeze more poductivity from the great unwashed masses.
I'll pass then.
How do they know it was the library's wifi anyway?
Maybe it was the wifi of the guy across the street.
Maybe it was the wifi of the coffee house next to the library.
>Who says they only apply inside the library?
There's a sign at Blockbuster's door: "No food or drink". Does it apply to the bus bench at the curb 25 feet from their door? No.
Only if you can demonstrate that library patients were in fact harmed.
Besides, it's a public library. It's there to serve the public. The public is the guy in front of the library with his laptop as much as the guy inside the library with his laptop. There's no such thing as a library patron. The public is the library patron. Some library patrons choose to go in the library, and some choose not to. They are all paying for the library and the bandwidth. Thus the public and the library patrons are one and the same. So if a member of the public is standing oustide the library using the library's wifi, it is absolutely no different than another member of the public standing inside the library using the wifi.
We all pay for the wifi, we should all be able to use it.
(for those of you who argue: he's not from my town, why should he get it? I'll reply: when you're in his town, why should you get it? It's a mutually beneficial trade-off.)
I can't wait for the Zealots to start arguing which distro is best:
-USA Army Linux Combat Integration System
-Deutsch Bundeswehr Linux Tactical Strike Module
-PRC Linux Command and Control
-Al-Quaeda Linux Insurrection III
You know, Mr Torvalds will have to do like Mr Nobel before it's all over.
If you leave your car running, unlocked, with the windows down, and go into a store to buy something, and a thief comes and steals your car. your insurance company will not pay you even though you have theft coverage since you did not exercise common and customary care.
It's wrong of the thief, but stupid of you.
The thief will still get busted if caught, of course, but you will lose too.
Now, about the allegory to your house.
If you were to take your television and put it on the sidewalk, in front of your house. It still belongs to you (you paid for it) and not anyone else (they didn't pay for it). Yet if Jil Smart shows up and takes the TV, she has not stolen it, because you put it on public property, and in doing so you relinquished your property claim.
Same with the wifi.
They can cat5 the building, then this would not happen. Noone is forcing them to use wifi.
> Most of Microsoft's patent portfolio exists solely to protect MS from the lawsuits of other companies.
Actually no. It exists so that VC companies will not fund individuals who have "Great Ideas" because there are MS patents lurking within the realm of said "Great Idea".
They are there to limit innovation.
Let's say Idea A has been discovered and patented by MSFT. Then idea B comes along and is related to idea A. No investor in their right mind will plunk down $15M on idea B.
So it leaves MSFT very able to pick it up later, once blogger and-part time python coder Joe Geek lays it out on his website.
Then MSFT patents idea B.
Repeat at will.
Time out.
He was outside the library. OUTSIDE THE LIBRARY. Repeat 5 times.
Why should he be held to rules that apply only _inside_ the library?
Remember. He was outside the library.
I will, thanks.