The contracts generally cover everything, but many states, California included, expressly limit what the contract can actually cover. If you work in that state, labor laws for that state take precedence over whichever state the company might be incorporated in, etc.
Since, he did this in his off hours, using his own resources (and the "Improving MacOS" line is BS- did he make a CDEV or DA? No? Then he didn't "improve" Apple's product as it was sold, etc.)- California labor law says it is HIS Copyright, not Apples. They can't demand for it, legally. It's not "not contributing to the company" as you put it. What Apple's doing is no different than the attempted IP grab SCO's trying to do with Linux or someone trading songs on Kazaa or similar.
It was more akin to having a more modern kernel, etc. that made the K6-II based Qube3's an improvement over the MIPS based Qube2. It was that you didn't have to compile special versions of things and that you had 2.4 versions of the kernel available that made the improvement. The Qube2's CPU was actually faster/cooler than the Qube3's offering- but the whole configuration wasn't largely utilizing the real power of the CPU in any of it's normal usages.
It's probably cooled by immersing the components in refrigerated Novec fluid. Air cooling would be hopelessly inadequate for the part density and thermal output in question.
While it's not as high as the optical discs out there, it's got absolutely NO moving parts at all and consumes dramatically less power. And the power consumption for writing probably beats the hell out of CD-R, so it could be a solution for professional digital photography. Just because it's not the best density, doesn't mean it's not a breakthrough or that it's not at all useful.
...this isn't news. This is more of a consequence of the earlier article about the polymer/thin-film silicon high cap memory story. Of course all of this may end up being irrelevent in as little as five years- but it may take decades and still not be there, just like holographic storage (which held the same level of promise- and existed since the 50's and 60's...)
Both of them do not address that there is really something fundamentally wrong with what they did- they make it sound like some of their customers had issues with what the router was doing by design and that they're changing it for that reason.
...that what they did was a completely boneheaded thing to do, they might get back in good graces in time. Now, they're going to do good to get my cable and KVM business- they do not appear to be willing in the slightest to admit they screwed up royally on this. It'll stay that way (and I reccomend things to a LARGE number of people) until they change their tune.
1) This is not software, nor did it need drivers to work. There should be no "No thanks" 'button'- period.
2) What if you're NOT using a browser for your applications? What if you're using SOAP or XML-RPC for something? In either of those cases, Belkin's little advert thing will BREAK things.
3) When I install software, I don't get ads about new products when I'm installing. This includes GAMES.
I don't care HOW you'd like to rationalize it- what Belkin did was way over the top stupid.
Yeah, it's become a source of concern for their users... The damn thing breaks so many different functionalities it's not even funny.
SOAP. XML-RPC. Any other HTML derived protocol.
Turning off ads manually does NOT constitute configuring the thing, either. The topper's the fact that they plain flat don't understand that they've done a grotesquely boneheaded thing. The snippy and the current announcement indicate they still just don't get it.
But, the thing is, for the most part, only the extreme crowd is interested in doing that sort of thing. One drawback that Microsoft is going to have to work at, is that if they get too custom, they're going to make the big selling point (i.e. it's next to nothing to port a Windows game over to the X-Box...) and pretty much throw it out the window.
The reflective layer is perhaps one of the most important parts to a CD, but in the case of el-cheapo discs I have noticed an annoying tendency to nick or bubble up. Boils down to a low-grade lacquer job for the protective layer coupled with a poor plating job on the reflective layer for those discs. The discs that did it to me happen to have been some bargain-basement unlabeled stuff that came from a shrink-wrapped bulk stack of CD-R's. Everything else I've used has held up quite well, including stuff from K-Hypermedia. I'd avoid anything that is in bulk pack sleeves as it's liable to be of low quality unless you KNOW who made them.
You'd be surprised at what they're running in those router bricks. Usually it's an SH-3, MIPS, or 386/486, or a low-end ARM. They usually run an embedded OS that's generally intended for doing nothing but limited firewalling and routing.
A mid-end Pentium with 32 or more MB of RAM and 300+Mb of HD will work WELL in a router config. Smoothwall does an awesome job of running a firewall with the added ability to provide sharing on an ISDN or Analog dialup line, http/ftp/gopher caching, etc. It's kind of overkill for most people, but you can be assured of an easy to operate interface and a completely open system with NONE of this sort of BS happening in it. Any 5x86 class CPU or better will do, and you'll thank yourself for it in the end.
It's a ROUTER. By design, it's supposed to deliver traffic to it's intended destination, to the best of it's ability, 100% of the time. Not route a request to some other place- that's not it's design (well, in the case of Belkin's routers, unlike everyone else's, that is...).
Unlike popups, etc., this is redirecting randomly selected packets going to port 80 (and probably the HTTPS port as well...) to thier server. Take a wild guess how many different things that just broke (SOAP, XML RPC, etc.). Like someone said, I hope nothing mission critical for you is on the inside of this stupid router- because it's BROKEN by design (And "configuring" the Router doesn't include turning frigging adverts off, either...).
It's got to be one of the stupidest things I've heard of in a long time done for the sake of marketing.
NDA's cover PROPRIETARY, as in only known to the company and it's partners that have entered into an NDA, info.
Microsoft buying G5's isn't proprietary and the reseller could legitimately disclose this info- they can expect MS to NOT continue doing business with them if MS didn't want that info disclosed, but it's not something that could be considered proprietary all the same.
The fact that this individual worked at a specific location on the MS campus isn't proprietary info either. Otherwise you'd have people violating the NDAs all the time.
The two tidbits combined isn't proprietary info either.
If it's not proprietary info, it's not coverable by an NDA.
He wasn't ejected from the MS campus over a breach of an NDA (By the way, do you have any idea how silly you look making it sound like this is a worse thing that a leakage of IP to the world?)- it was someone at MS taking Umbrage at the blog entry and using "security" reasons as an excuse to get him booted from the campus.
Surprisingly, everything ESR said in the Jargon File entry about SCO can be proved beyond a shadow of doubt (i.e. Almost every one of the numerous PR releases that SCO has made or public pontifications happen to be mis-statements, half-truths, or outright whoppers.)/
Just wait until the first worm, virus, or trojan uses this little misfeature. It's not just Mandrake- especially if they're using proper ATAPI stuff (which shouldn't zap ANYTHING).
It's LG that should be busy about it as much as Mandrake- don't go blaming someone else for some hardware vendor's half-assed reflash (which is what this suspiciously sounds like to me with them using the "Linux isn't supported and they don't test against it" defense about the whole thing.).
Uhm, 'cos you can't buy food on paypal, and all that money was burning a hole in his pocket?
Actually, you CAN buy food with PayPal- just not the way you'd normally think about it. They can issue a MasterCard Business debit card that is tied to the money in your PayPal account. This card will work on the Pulse network as an ordinary ATM card (w/a small fee) or a Master Card (with no fees).
The previous poster was referring to the MasterCard business debit card that can be applied for and used against your standing e-cash balance- NOT the main discussion subject.
And yes, I have to wonder about the debit card issuance and it not being at least held to savings and loan rules and regs.
I agree with the parent on this. They would be stupid not to file some kind of litigation on this kid. The insiders have to put the brakes on that stock slide ASAP or they will be looking for new jobs in a month or two.
I'm sorrry, I can't agree with the sentiment, nor do I have any sympathy for the insiders' plight on the stock market. This bunch was f-ing stupid enough to just rely on autorun that is available only on Windows to enforce their wishes- looking for new jobs or panhandling on the street corner would probably be good for them at this point in time.
There's LOTS of sites out there that render just fine- most of them. And, guess what, they're largely standards compliant. It's when you start trying to do truely fancy things (which is a debatable thing- the web wasn't intended to be an application, etc.) with JavaScript, etc. is when it all breaks down. Worse yet, it doesn't work right on most versions of IE in many cases. When 10-20% of your potential customer base (i.e. MacOS and Linux users definitely comprise that 10% between the two of them) is barred or has problems with your site you're doing the wrong things with your website.
They separate Netscape 5+/7 from Mozilla- when in reality, 6 and 7 ARE a commercialized version thereof. The stats are close to that 10% mark if you properly combine the two.
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The contracts generally cover everything, but many states, California included, expressly limit what the contract can actually cover. If you work in that state, labor laws for that state take precedence over whichever state the company might be incorporated in, etc.
Since, he did this in his off hours, using his own resources (and the "Improving MacOS" line is BS- did he make a CDEV or DA? No? Then he didn't "improve" Apple's product as it was sold, etc.)- California labor law says it is HIS Copyright, not Apples. They can't demand for it, legally. It's not "not contributing to the company" as you put it. What Apple's doing is no different than the attempted IP grab SCO's trying to do with Linux or someone trading songs on Kazaa or similar.
...their Clie PDA line, since they use MemorySticks only on them.
It was more akin to having a more modern kernel, etc. that made the K6-II based Qube3's an improvement over the MIPS based Qube2. It was that you didn't have to compile special versions of things and that you had 2.4 versions of the kernel available that made the improvement. The Qube2's CPU was actually faster/cooler than the Qube3's offering- but the whole configuration wasn't largely utilizing the real power of the CPU in any of it's normal usages.
It's probably cooled by immersing the components in refrigerated Novec fluid. Air cooling would be hopelessly inadequate for the part density and thermal output in question.
Think of it in terms of things like PDA's, etc.
While it's not as high as the optical discs out there, it's got absolutely NO moving parts at all and consumes dramatically less power. And the power consumption for writing probably beats the hell out of CD-R, so it could be a solution for professional digital photography. Just because it's not the best density, doesn't mean it's not a breakthrough or that it's not at all useful.
...this isn't news. This is more of a consequence of the earlier article about the polymer/thin-film silicon high cap memory story. Of course all of this may end up being irrelevent in as little as five years- but it may take decades and still not be there, just like holographic storage (which held the same level of promise- and existed since the 50's and 60's...)
DRMed, proprietary files on the second session?
Trust? You keep using that word...I don't think it means what you think it means...
Both of them do not address that there is really something fundamentally wrong with what they did- they make it sound like some of their customers had issues with what the router was doing by design and that they're changing it for that reason.
...that what they did was a completely boneheaded thing to do, they might get back in good graces in time. Now, they're going to do good to get my cable and KVM business- they do not appear to be willing in the slightest to admit they screwed up royally on this. It'll stay that way (and I reccomend things to a LARGE number of people) until they change their tune.
1) This is not software, nor did it need drivers to work. There should be no "No thanks" 'button'- period.
2) What if you're NOT using a browser for your applications? What if you're using SOAP or XML-RPC for something? In either of those cases, Belkin's little advert thing will BREAK things.
3) When I install software, I don't get ads about new products when I'm installing. This includes GAMES.
I don't care HOW you'd like to rationalize it- what Belkin did was way over the top stupid.
Yeah, it's become a source of concern for their users... The damn thing breaks so many different functionalities it's not even funny .
SOAP.
XML-RPC.
Any other HTML derived protocol.
Turning off ads manually does NOT constitute configuring the thing, either. The topper's the fact that they plain flat don't understand that they've done a grotesquely boneheaded thing. The snippy and the current announcement indicate they still just don't get it.
But, the thing is, for the most part, only the extreme crowd is interested in doing that sort of thing. One drawback that Microsoft is going to have to work at, is that if they get too custom, they're going to make the big selling point (i.e. it's next to nothing to port a Windows game over to the X-Box...) and pretty much throw it out the window.
The reflective layer is perhaps one of the most important parts to a CD, but in the case of el-cheapo discs I have noticed an annoying tendency to nick or bubble up. Boils down to a low-grade lacquer job for the protective layer coupled with a poor plating job on the reflective layer for those discs. The discs that did it to me happen to have been some bargain-basement unlabeled stuff that came from a shrink-wrapped bulk stack of CD-R's. Everything else I've used has held up quite well, including stuff from K-Hypermedia. I'd avoid anything that is in bulk pack sleeves as it's liable to be of low quality unless you KNOW who made them.
You'd be surprised at what they're running in those router bricks. Usually it's an SH-3, MIPS, or 386/486, or a low-end ARM. They usually run an embedded OS that's generally intended for doing nothing but limited firewalling and routing.
A mid-end Pentium with 32 or more MB of RAM and 300+Mb of HD will work WELL in a router config. Smoothwall does an awesome job of running a firewall with the added ability to provide sharing on an ISDN or Analog dialup line, http/ftp/gopher caching, etc. It's kind of overkill for most people, but you can be assured of an easy to operate interface and a completely open system with NONE of this sort of BS happening in it. Any 5x86 class CPU or better will do, and you'll thank yourself for it in the end.
It's a ROUTER. By design, it's supposed to deliver traffic to it's intended destination, to the best of it's ability, 100% of the time. Not route a request to some other place- that's not it's design (well, in the case of Belkin's routers, unlike everyone else's, that is...).
Unlike popups, etc., this is redirecting randomly selected packets going to port 80 (and probably the HTTPS port as well...) to thier server. Take a wild guess how many different things that just broke (SOAP, XML RPC, etc.). Like someone said, I hope nothing mission critical for you is on the inside of this stupid router- because it's BROKEN by design (And "configuring" the Router doesn't include turning frigging adverts off, either...).
It's got to be one of the stupidest things I've heard of in a long time done for the sake of marketing.
NDA's cover PROPRIETARY, as in only known to the company and it's partners that have entered into an NDA, info.
Microsoft buying G5's isn't proprietary and the reseller could legitimately disclose this info- they can expect MS to NOT continue doing business with them if MS didn't want that info disclosed, but it's not something that could be considered proprietary all the same.
The fact that this individual worked at a specific location on the MS campus isn't proprietary info either. Otherwise you'd have people violating the NDAs all the time.
The two tidbits combined isn't proprietary info either.
If it's not proprietary info, it's not coverable by an NDA.
He wasn't ejected from the MS campus over a breach of an NDA (By the way, do you have any idea how silly you look making it sound like this is a worse thing that a leakage of IP to the world?)- it was someone at MS taking Umbrage at the blog entry and using "security" reasons as an excuse to get him booted from the campus.
Surprisingly, everything ESR said in the Jargon File entry about SCO can be proved beyond a shadow of doubt (i.e. Almost every one of the numerous PR releases that SCO has made or public pontifications happen to be mis-statements, half-truths, or outright whoppers.)/
Which, by the way, is what they did.
Just wait until the first worm, virus, or trojan uses this little misfeature. It's not just Mandrake- especially if they're using proper ATAPI stuff (which shouldn't zap ANYTHING).
It's LG that should be busy about it as much as Mandrake- don't go blaming someone else for some hardware vendor's half-assed reflash (which is what this suspiciously sounds like to me with them using the "Linux isn't supported and they don't test against it" defense about the whole thing.).
Actually, you CAN buy food with PayPal- just not the way you'd normally think about it. They can issue a MasterCard Business debit card that is tied to the money in your PayPal account. This card will work on the Pulse network as an ordinary ATM card (w/a small fee) or a Master Card (with no fees).
The previous poster was referring to the MasterCard business debit card that can be applied for and used against your standing e-cash balance- NOT the main discussion subject.
And yes, I have to wonder about the debit card issuance and it not being at least held to savings and loan rules and regs.
I'm sorrry, I can't agree with the sentiment, nor do I have any sympathy for the insiders' plight on the stock market. This bunch was f-ing stupid enough to just rely on autorun that is available only on Windows to enforce their wishes- looking for new jobs or panhandling on the street corner would probably be good for them at this point in time.
Um, not 100% correct- he forgot to mention France, but he did mention a correct country on the list all the same...
Virgin - England.
EMI Records - England.
There's LOTS of sites out there that render just fine- most of them. And, guess what, they're largely standards compliant. It's when you start trying to do truely fancy things (which is a debatable thing- the web wasn't intended to be an application, etc.) with JavaScript, etc. is when it all breaks down. Worse yet, it doesn't work right on most versions of IE in many cases. When 10-20% of your potential customer base (i.e. MacOS and Linux users definitely comprise that 10% between the two of them) is barred or has problems with your site you're doing the wrong things with your website.
They separate Netscape 5+/7 from Mozilla- when in reality, 6 and 7 ARE a commercialized version thereof. The stats are close to that 10% mark if you properly combine the two.