Nope, Eisner is sweating bullets that someone will access Walt's medical data and find out that he was scheduled for revival in 2001, but that some one named M. Eisner MD, delayed the procedure till a date (in true MD handwriting) that looks suspiciously like "hell freezes over"
I said that what you thought was a restriction on the corporations would actually be a restriction on the artist. I make no assumptions about the goals of the corporations.
If you did see some law with a title like "Creative Rights And Protection Act of 2002", you would find upon reading it that while the Congresscritter who sponsrs it will claim to be doing it for the artist, the actual details will show that the CRAP Act of 2002 will wind up leaving the artists worse off than they are now.
He had a table for one of his books, but also gave details on two others in the text. It would be interesting to see what effect on sales the other authors who have free books available there experienced, but Flint couldn't exactly reveal that without vilating their privacy now could he.
He also pointed out the dollar value of his royalties from Baen's Webscriptions program (a few thousand bucks). He also revealed the royalties his better known co-author received from another publishing house (36 grand for the dead trees and 28 Dollars in royalties for the electronic version)
As to the topic, I do believe the article was specifically about Baen and books.
I used to think like this. I'll stick with your terms of artists and corporations to keep it simple.
But it finally sank in that any limitation that you think of as applying to the corporation is actually a limit on the artists. The corporations have already done a bang up job of screwing over the artists, they really don't need any help from the government to further limit the artists ability to sell their creative output.
Hmm.... The only reason I can think of for knowingly visiting a COS site would be to scrupulously check the source code for the site to see if they may have inadvertently done something ethically questionable such as setting web bugs or transferring malicious cookies, or anything along those lines.
Of course, the worst possible thing a COS site might do would be to infringe on someone else's copyright. (maybe via a link they did not have EXPLICIT WRITTEN PERMISSION for from the copyright holder - especially if it turned out to be for something copyrighted but unpublished)
I know that no Scientologist would ever deliberately do something leagally actionable or ethically questionable. If such acopyright violation would occur, it could only be via a honest mistake and there would be no reason to send a SWAT team after them (deCESS), or have the FBI arrest anyone (Adobe eBook).
That reminds me of something though - if a COS member ever did do something really bad could they ever try for an insanity defense? Since that would probably wind up requiring a psychlon evaluation?
My point is that MSFT has plenty of money - of the spendable variety. They can afford to drop a few billion a year in an attempt to deveelop various markets (including game consoles) and still not touch any of that 40 billion.
I rather doubt they really could buy SONY - I was just trying to hammer home how much cash MSFT is really sitting on. (More than Scrooge McDuck could imagine in his wildest dreams)
This is a very different situation from the original post claiming that MSFT couldn't even afford to pay their employees. MSFT used those stock options to game the income tax system.
As to appeasing shareholders... excuse me while I stop LMAO
Microsoft is sitting on about 40 billion dollars in cold hard CASH. That is close to the market capitalization of SONY (in translation MSFT could just about buy every available share of SONY stock on the market and pay cash - if they wanted to).
But yes MSFT did game the tax system very nicely with their stock options - it has allowed them to have negligible taxable income.
If MSFT really wants into the console gaming market, they will persevere. (In which case XBOX 3 will probably be a true ass-kicker of a console).
A lot depends on how well the Korporate Kopyright Kartel is able to impose their will upon the Congress. If computers are reduced to little more than consoles, then you can bet MSFT will be there - they can't afford not to be. If the CBPTPA and its ilk is properly defeated. That is if the sponsors of the bill defeated by 99-1 margins in their re-election campaigns (or dragged out of their offices and hung from the Capitol flagpole), and the KKK properly chastised by having every copyright affecting law since 1860 declared unconstitutional, and every lawyer who works for the KKK thrown in jail for violating the civil rights of American citizens and resident aliens, well then MSFT may consider giving up on the console gaming market.
In any other circumstances I wouldn't care to try and predict MSFTs actions.
This is not a slam, but German society seems really big on having lots of restrictive laws. Having to pay to make a copy (of any type) fits right in with that mindset. Lots of activities that can be engaged in freely in the US seem to require permission or an actual license from the government before they may be done in Germany.
I'm sure German readers who think for a moment will be able to identify specific examples (why don't you see any lowriders on the autobahn?) - but remember I'm not trying to start a flamewar..
Actually I got a kick out the title..and especially the bit where the author warns the PHB to not call his employees geeks or nerds. It is an offense comparable to a white manager calling black employees n*gg*rs (though a step or two down on the napalm scale).So he writes about managing "Einsteins"...
But what those of us older types may recall is that management types use the term "Einstein" as an insult. Just as when someone demonstrates their subtle grasp of the obvious, a likely comment will be "No sh*t Sherlock". Think about it.. how often have you heard the phrase "Way to go, Einstein" when someone performs an intellectual feat of amazing ineptitude? (Commodore Tahkos spelling doesn't count - or does it?)
Umm, but doesn't everyone who uses such beasties recompile the executables from the source? If so, the first thing they are likely to do is disable the test for the expiration date. It will undoubtably be the first thing they do after being "stung" by a mission critical program that expires on them.
Of course, if a Closed Source package tried this stunt, everyone and their kid brother would join the lynch mob.
Think about the difference between satellite and cable.
Your cable company is LOCAL. They can interrupt the network feed with local content (advertising, etc) at any time.
The complaint refers to satellite companies. The transmitter is in orbit (geosynch for example, is NOT local by a good 22,000 miles) and broadcasts over a goodly portion of the entire hemisphere under it. That means your satellite dish is picking up the same broadcast as everyone else pointed at that satellite. It can't broadcast a few thousand "local" commercials simultaneously when ABC signals it is time for a local rather than national advertisement.
Yeah, you're really missing out. In addition to the incisive description of the boardroom politics behind the merger, there were just awesome screen shots of the now cancelled MSFT game CIBFN "Chix In Bikinis Fighting Ninjas".
People who complain about Aoril Fool's jokes are poopyheads.
They do plan on migrating more server type tasks onto that machine and off of standalone servers that have kind of "just grown". They probably don't have any other single tasks that will realize six figure savings from the migration, (and they aren't moving jobs to Linux due some secretive penguin fetish) but they willbe movinng other tasks where they find a good justification. The licensing costs for the mailserver made it their "killer app/service".
Big Iron is generally measured in MIPS, (been that way for over twenty years). So what the Big Blue Spokesperson is saying is: "In the fourth quarter of last year, eleven per cent of the total computer power we shipped was tunning Linux."
Now that might mean that they shipped a total of 100 Mainframes (Really Big Boxes) of various models. They added up the MIPS of all of them and came up with some number of total MIPS -lets say 100,000. Of that 100 mainframes, thrity of them (relatively low end) totalling 11,000 MIPS were configured with Linux.
I'll agree, it seems kinda dumb, it would be like Ford reporting sales based on the total horsepower of all the engines in all the cars and trucks they sold, and then giving the percentage of them "configured" for diesel. Maybe an UBMer would care to explain why it makes sense?
he saved over 120K bucks vs an MSFT Exchange Server solution (for 700 users - what is Bill G smoking?)
It is using less than ten per cent of the mainframe's capacity, they do plan to migrate other server jobs currently on discrete machines to the mainframe
Yes they are already a mainframe shop. One mainframe is far more capable than a desktop server. Given a choice between supporting a single mainframe or a couple of hundred desktop servers, the mainframe costs less
The article covers a lot more than just this one instance, but it has a nice number to start with - that big dollar savings
What most people miss (an activist friend of mine clued me in) is that the donations coming from lawyers are often a result of a law firm making a contribution as a service for a client. The law firm makes a healthy profit on the deal, and the politician knows exactly what that particular donation is in service of, but the folks looking at the campaign finance documents will have no clue unless they take the time to cross reference the actual law firms making specific donations with the corporate clients that law firm represents. And then they have at best a good idea, but no smoking gun.
Yeah, this sounds like just the thing for people who want voice dictation, but work in a "noisy" environment. Alternatively, you could even have a microphone attached so that when you actually did speak, it would automatically disable the recognition - no more accidentally transcribing your half of a phone conversation for example. Wait a minute, I have to patent that idea!:-)
The current "storyline" is about the evils of stealing albums and movies off the internet. Guess who the evil thief is? (hint: the same character who played with Win95 when it first came out and "fixed" all the bugs for Bill Gates)
I feel the payment system should go the other way. The game should be free - or cost at most one months subscription fee and include that first month. Then you pay a monthly fee for as long as the company can keep your interest. And all of the "expansions" should also be free - after all you are paying a monthly fee, the least you should expect for your money is new programming.
Heck, if I were to pay for HBO or Showtime, I'd drop it very quickly if I only got to see the same movies as were available when I first signed up. HBO and Showtime (and other "premium" channels) understand they have to offer something new to keep my interest. They even offer free trial periods to help get people to sign up for their service.
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Just tell everyone that Hollings is a tool of the Korporate Kopyright Kartel instead of referring to him as the "Senator from Disney"
Shh... Don't tell Eisner:-)
Nope, Eisner is sweating bullets that someone will access Walt's medical data and find out that he was scheduled for revival in 2001, but that some one named M. Eisner MD, delayed the procedure till a date (in true MD handwriting) that looks suspiciously like "hell freezes over"
I said that what you thought was a restriction on the corporations would actually be a restriction on the artist. I make no assumptions about the goals of the corporations.
If you did see some law with a title like "Creative Rights And Protection Act of 2002", you would find upon reading it that while the Congresscritter who sponsrs it will claim to be doing it for the artist, the actual details will show that the CRAP Act of 2002 will wind up leaving the artists worse off than they are now.
He had a table for one of his books, but also gave details on two others in the text. It would be interesting to see what effect on sales the other authors who have free books available there experienced, but Flint couldn't exactly reveal that without vilating their privacy now could he.
He also pointed out the dollar value of his royalties from Baen's Webscriptions program (a few thousand bucks). He also revealed the royalties his better known co-author received from another publishing house (36 grand for the dead trees and 28 Dollars in royalties for the electronic version)
As to the topic, I do believe the article was specifically about Baen and books.
I used to think like this. I'll stick with your terms of artists and corporations to keep it simple.
But it finally sank in that any limitation that you think of as applying to the corporation is actually a limit on the artists. The corporations have already done a bang up job of screwing over the artists, they really don't need any help from the government to further limit the artists ability to sell their creative output.
Hmm....
The only reason I can think of for knowingly visiting a COS site would be to scrupulously check the source code for the site to see if they may have inadvertently done something ethically questionable such as setting web bugs or transferring malicious cookies, or anything along those lines.
Of course, the worst possible thing a COS site might do would be to infringe on someone else's copyright. (maybe via a link they did not have EXPLICIT WRITTEN PERMISSION for from the copyright holder - especially if it turned out to be for something copyrighted but unpublished)
I know that no Scientologist would ever deliberately do something leagally actionable or ethically questionable. If such acopyright violation would occur, it could only be via a honest mistake and there would be no reason to send a SWAT team after them (deCESS), or have the FBI arrest anyone (Adobe eBook).
That reminds me of something though - if a COS member ever did do something really bad could they ever try for an insanity defense? Since that would probably wind up requiring a psychlon evaluation?
My point is that MSFT has plenty of money - of the spendable variety. They can afford to drop a few billion a year in an attempt to deveelop various markets (including game consoles) and still not touch any of that 40 billion.
I rather doubt they really could buy SONY - I was just trying to hammer home how much cash MSFT is really sitting on. (More than Scrooge McDuck could imagine in his wildest dreams)
This is a very different situation from the original post claiming that MSFT couldn't even afford to pay their employees. MSFT used those stock options to game the income tax system.
As to appeasing shareholders... excuse me while I stop LMAO
Yojimbo -> A Fistful of Dollars -> Warrior and the Sorceress (an Italian flick with one of the Carradines swords, ponchos, and nekkid chicks)
Get all three and watch in that order.
Be prepared to laugh, cry, or drool...
Microsoft is sitting on about 40 billion dollars in cold hard CASH. That is close to the market capitalization of SONY (in translation MSFT could just about buy every available share of SONY stock on the market and pay cash - if they wanted to).
But yes MSFT did game the tax system very nicely with their stock options - it has allowed them to have negligible taxable income.
If MSFT really wants into the console gaming market, they will persevere. (In which case XBOX 3 will probably be a true ass-kicker of a console).
A lot depends on how well the Korporate Kopyright Kartel is able to impose their will upon the Congress. If computers are reduced to little more than consoles, then you can bet MSFT will be there - they can't afford not to be. If the CBPTPA and its ilk is properly defeated. That is if the sponsors of the bill defeated by 99-1 margins in their re-election campaigns (or dragged out of their offices and hung from the Capitol flagpole), and the KKK properly chastised by having every copyright affecting law since 1860 declared unconstitutional, and every lawyer who works for the KKK thrown in jail for violating the civil rights of American citizens and resident aliens, well then MSFT may consider giving up on the console gaming market.
In any other circumstances I wouldn't care to try and predict MSFTs actions.
This is not a slam, but German society seems really big on having lots of restrictive laws. Having to pay to make a copy (of any type) fits right in with that mindset. Lots of activities that can be engaged in freely in the US seem to require permission or an actual license from the government before they may be done in Germany.
I'm sure German readers who think for a moment will be able to identify specific examples (why don't you see any lowriders on the autobahn?) - but remember I'm not trying to start a flamewar..
Actually I got a kick out the title..and especially the bit where the author warns the PHB to not call his employees geeks or nerds. It is an offense comparable to a white manager calling black employees n*gg*rs (though a step or two down on the napalm scale).So he writes about managing "Einsteins"...
But what those of us older types may recall is that management types use the term "Einstein" as an insult. Just as when someone demonstrates their subtle grasp of the obvious, a likely comment will be "No sh*t Sherlock". Think about it.. how often have you heard the phrase "Way to go, Einstein" when someone performs an intellectual feat of amazing ineptitude? (Commodore Tahkos spelling doesn't count - or does it?)
Umm, but doesn't everyone who uses such beasties recompile the executables from the source? If so, the first thing they are likely to do is disable the test for the expiration date. It will undoubtably be the first thing they do after being "stung" by a mission critical program that expires on them.
Of course, if a Closed Source package tried this stunt, everyone and their kid brother would join the lynch mob.
Think about the difference between satellite and cable.
Your cable company is LOCAL. They can interrupt the network feed with local content (advertising, etc) at any time.
The complaint refers to satellite companies. The transmitter is in orbit (geosynch for example, is NOT local by a good 22,000 miles) and broadcasts over a goodly portion of the entire hemisphere under it. That means your satellite dish is picking up the same broadcast as everyone else pointed at that satellite. It can't broadcast a few thousand "local" commercials simultaneously when ABC signals it is time for a local rather than national advertisement.
Yeah, you're really missing out. In addition to the incisive description of the boardroom politics behind the merger, there were just awesome screen shots of the now cancelled MSFT game CIBFN "Chix In Bikinis Fighting Ninjas".
People who complain about Aoril Fool's jokes are poopyheads.
Damn my human fingers!
"Light of Other Days"
Bob Shaw
First came out in '66
Still gives me a lump in my throat just thinking about it.
They do plan on migrating more server type tasks onto that machine and off of standalone servers that have kind of "just grown". They probably don't have any other single tasks that will realize six figure savings from the migration, (and they aren't moving jobs to Linux due some secretive penguin fetish) but they willbe movinng other tasks where they find a good justification. The licensing costs for the mailserver made it their "killer app/service".
Big Iron is generally measured in MIPS, (been that way for over twenty years). So what the Big Blue Spokesperson is saying is:
"In the fourth quarter of last year, eleven per cent of the total computer power we shipped was tunning Linux."
Now that might mean that they shipped a total of 100 Mainframes (Really Big Boxes) of various models. They added up the MIPS of all of them and came up with some number of total MIPS -lets say 100,000. Of that 100 mainframes, thrity of them (relatively low end) totalling 11,000 MIPS were configured with Linux.
I'll agree, it seems kinda dumb, it would be like Ford reporting sales based on the total horsepower of all the engines in all the cars and trucks they sold, and then giving the percentage of them "configured" for diesel.
Maybe an UBMer would care to explain why it makes sense?
What most people miss (an activist friend of mine clued me in) is that the donations coming from lawyers are often a result of a law firm making a contribution as a service for a client.
The law firm makes a healthy profit on the deal, and the politician knows exactly what that particular donation is in service of, but the folks looking at the campaign finance documents will have no clue unless they take the time to cross reference the actual law firms making specific donations with the corporate clients that law firm represents. And then they have at best a good idea, but no smoking gun.
Yeah, this sounds like just the thing for people who want voice dictation, but work in a "noisy" environment. :-)
Alternatively, you could even have a microphone attached so that when you actually did speak, it would automatically disable the recognition - no more accidentally transcribing your half of a phone conversation for example. Wait a minute, I have to patent that idea!
The current "storyline" is about the evils of stealing albums and movies off the internet. Guess who the evil thief is? (hint: the same character who played with Win95 when it first came out and "fixed" all the bugs for Bill Gates)
As a complete aside SHE uses a Mac nowadays
Hmm... so you are too ashamed to even own up to William ("Why does God..... need a... Starship"?) Shatner?
Or... does he... fit into... the... "so bad... it's good... category?"
I feel the payment system should go the other way.
The game should be free - or cost at most one months subscription fee and include that first month. Then you pay a monthly fee for as long as the company can keep your interest. And all of the "expansions" should also be free - after all you are paying a monthly fee, the least you should expect for your money is new programming.
Heck, if I were to pay for HBO or Showtime, I'd drop it very quickly if I only got to see the same movies as were available when I first signed up. HBO and Showtime (and other "premium" channels) understand they have to offer something new to keep my interest. They even offer free trial periods to help get people to sign up for their service.