Given Microsoft's history, both old and new, does anybody really believe this fodder coming out of them??? They have an advanced version of their license machine in Vista that is supposed to make up for the errors they experienced with the ones in Office and XP. There has to be something for them to get in unannounced for validation purposes.
I don't believe a word of it. Once a liar, always a liar. Steve Balmer is still with Microsoft right??? Pack of liars. I don't buy it.
I think whats really happening is that Yahoo and AOL are noticing that spam isn't going away, and in fact has a new bunch of trouters pushing the junk and they (the spammers) are making a ton of money out of it. Yahoo and AOL want a piece of their pie. The filters aren't generally working and they spammers continuously find ways around the filters. Big cat-n-mouse game. I think they stand to make some serious cash revenues out of this and it will help their corporate bottom lines more than it will effect the numbers of spam.
Keep those filters up on the client end boys and girls. It's the only way of evading this scourge of the planet!!
I don't remember it being so little myself. That must be one hell of a firmware item because in a movable vehicle, I can't imagine an OS and software running from a hard drive that is suseptable to damage from vibration, etc.
Just let em use IE for internal/Intranet based stuff, and then tutor/instruct end users to use Firefox, Mozilla or Opera when they want to "browse the web".
Seems as though these *reporters*...; if thats really who they are, have apparently not ever read, much less heard of the story about "The Sky Is Falling"... et al.
Typical monitarily biased media people...
lol.
Pretty soon it will be the crying wolf more than 3 times and no one will answer. Then there really will be trouble in paradise.
Have an electrician come in and do some wiring checks and fixes. You have a combination of two problems causing you to see this.
1: You have poor to non-existent grounds on one or more of the phases. This can be tested for by the electrician.
2: The HOT and Neutrals are swapped around and generally this isn't an issue except that *modern* power supplies are getting cheaper and cheaper and this usually means cutting out *some* parts like full-wave bridges for half-wave diode sets, and similar tricks. This then makes the circuit more effected by incoming AC and it's phase against ground or what little there is of it. (hence the reason for #1) There more than likely is a potential difference between the neutral and ground that is excessive and this is causing a cap-start circuit to ignite the switching and hence, a dead PS.
Cheers;
I'm sorry but you got this when you accepted.
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iTunes is Malware?
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· Score: 2, Informative
I read a lot of these comments so far, and I'm surprised... or maybe not at the apparent apathy towards reading EULA's and other things when you install software. I have been a long time iTunes user and have spent many a dollar there. I discovered the fact that it was profiling based on a particular scheme of purchases that I made. My musical tastes span the globe almost literally. And I could use that to my benefit to try this and it worked. And this was well over a year ago!
And you folks are just now finding this out???
Also on the next note, IF YOU AREN'T READING EULA'S OR AGREEMENTS WHEN YOU INSTALL SOFTWARE, THEN THE REAL PROBLEM IS WITH YOU. And in reality this is so true because iTunes would not be where it is today without the undying love of the music downloader who is now going legit after the death of "free Napster". And you just want to "get that thing installed so I can use it" kind of thinking.
I can't blame them for using a download demographic for pushing similar stuff. Everyone does it. I think they call that... "Marketing".
They teach that in school although I'm not sure where sometimes.
This is all very interesting reading. After reading much of what this is about, it's now obvious that this is yet another frivolous law put on the books without due regard to research, and forward thinking. If it's put to the test and discovered to be a fallocy, it will take an act of congress to get the thing removed.
My suspicions about congress are rather high right now in part because this and a few other esoteric laws are either proposed or being made into law all-the-while many Congress people are dumping campaign donations right and left in the event their names come up from that lobbiest person (name escapes me right now) when he begins to spill the beans.
I don't trust anything going on in Washington right now because we're in one of those times where a lot of change is afoot. We seem to have one to many people in office that just plain don't have a clue and that seems to be causing all the change.
Cheers
(Oh yeah;... go ahead and revoke my First Amendment free-speech rights... I dare ya!! I've broken no laws and after getting your charge overturned, you'd see the next big overturning of your job, and possibly your physical freedom!)
Sony used to be a great company. They WERE the innovators of electronic technology both in consumer and commercial/broadcast markets. Now; they are nothing much over the junk you find in K-Mart's, Target's and other retailers selling highly marked up junk.
I at least can remember Sony the way they used to be. I still have my *original* Sony TPS-l2 walkman; the first and original in this country. It even has a very low serial number indicating it was very early production.
I agree that Sony spent way too much time trying to make the VIO computers look "special" and apart, but they are actually worse off then much of their competition out there. I know someone who's gone through 4 VIO desktop machines in 2 years. He desparately wants to get rid of it now and get a "real" box. I told him to search around on his box for the root kit and we can opt out of the class action suit and go for a direct suit to Sony for a full and complete refund on the machine's original purchase price, the expenses incurred to ship it in for service all those times, and last but not least, a modest fee for being subject of dissemination of personal data by a rogue program installed by Sony! Yea... thats the ticket!!:-P
This really is just another in a long line of crap being pushed on the consumers by the lawyers who are the ones making the "real" money.
I supposed most of you have forgotten that for all those machines infected with this parsite, it will cost the user about $150 per machine to have it removed or the machine reloaded and the equivalent of that in your valuable time if you are doing it yourself.
Where do these bozo's get off with this one is beyond me!!
I just got through reading a predominant amount of the posts here and I must say, I think the culmination of all posts on here represents a good and fair demographic of the field as a whole, and why it's heading in the dumper. There is no solidity in any of these messages other than the money and the relative lack of it.
I also don't buy into the statements of what they're turning out of the schools either. A lot; not all, but a lot of these kids are smart and can adapt quite well in todays trendy workplace. Much like me; an "old guy" who's been at this a long time, and had to be very quick and adept at adjustment and adaptation because of the way the people filling positions were hiring.
I myself have no "formal" training in IT. My background was in electronics. Computers were ancillary back then, and somehow over time migrated into a fundamental part of my day to day job(s). I think many who have been at this IT field for a while now will side with me when I say that what we're seeing is the imminent degradation of IT much like the electronics field did back in the 80's and 90's. Pretty soon, we'll begin to see system admin jobs being only available to low wage migrant workers who come up from Mexico on green cards. The guy you call at the help desk speaks English as a third language!... And so forth. The average American won't do these jobs anymore because no one wants to pay a livable wage. Much like custodial work!
It may be a bit of sad thinking here, but from my perspective, I can't even find companies that hire "Full Time" employees!!!! All they want now are Temps and Contractors since they don't have to handle ANY benefits, vacation time, or holiday pay. And when they decide they don't like the way you look, or your just out-n-out too damned old, they can kick your sorry butt to the door and not pay you anything!! I know because it's happened to me!(Age discrimination is a big problem in todays economy). It's a pretty "sucky" marketplace and economy if you ask me, and this will be reflective in your IT sector as economically challenged workers, highly transitional workers ever persuing the almighty buck, and people who were absolutely the best fit for a given IT position, leave and change careers because they have a family to support.
Just me two cents all!
Cheers
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Amazon Connect
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· Score: 2, Insightful
While this whole idea has a lot of utility for a lot of folks, I also see a lot of squabbling and possible other "problems" that can amount from it. In the past there have been incidents of people reading books only to turn round and threaten the author or get the author into a public forum of some type and try to publicly discrace them. Sometimes, people are fickle. You have to account for that.
I think this might have more use and merit in a university or other school setting as a means for discussion and topical ideas, but as a way to merge a reader and writer, probably dangerous...
I get a kick out of the seemingly sarcastic sounding "how do I fix this" things that I see here, and have seen in many other places. Fact is that with "tech" moving at such a pace these days, people (those with lots of ready-cash) are more likely to just dump this stuff into the trash (and landfills) and just go buy something new, rather than fix it.
I have been doing this sort of thing now since something like 1998 with relative ease. The only hassle has been scrounging up the cold cathode tubes that are large enough to cover the screens like the originals. Some will note that these have been conspicuously absent from the after-market parts shelves up until a couple years ago when it became fashionable to "light up" your box with colored lights. You quite literally had to know how to find them prior to this because they did not want them to be found. Any technician worth his salt knew that if you could replace the tube (and it wasn't hard at all to do), you could revive a computer or screen and make some money rather than having the user tossing this item into the landfills and spending whopping amounts of cash on "new models". (Yea, thats an accusation about the major OEM players; NEC, Toshiba and Sanyo; IMO)
As for the brightness issue... If you've replaced the tube and it's still dim, it's nothing more than the capacitors failing on your DC to AC converter boards. The caps are rated so close to tolarance in manufacture that with heat buildup and time, they fail prematurely. I've successfully pulled the boards and replaced the caps to bring them back to life assuming the transistors and IC have not failed. The brightness issue is nothing more than deviating the PWM (pulse width modulation) of the AC out to the tube. This change in PWM changes the resonance for the tube's circuit and hence it's brightness level is related to the PWM circuit efficiency. When the caps become leaky and dry, the circuit can no longer approach its normal or calculated PWM value or resonance, and hence your screen no longer can get as bright as it used to. Color temperature changed screens are the same issue. The cc tube is just more sensative to the current PWM and is lighting up in a particular color temperature; usually a brown or reddish hue.
Theoretically these LCD screens can last for many, many years if you want to simply replace these tubes and fix their circuits when they fail. Based on past history and my direct attempts to get these cc tubes and parts from several OEM's directly; replacing the entire LCD screen as a complete part; at a hefty price I might add; is generally your ONLY choice. More often than not, the replacement LCD panel cost more than the whole monitor did new!!!
I expect however that replacing the cc tubes as a standard repair will not be available because the folks manufacturing the LCD screens seem to control the access and if there is limited or no access to the parts, you only have access to "NEW" screens... or obviously new monitors!
Why on earth would you expect them to embrace it?? There is NO cost incentive to go to this. Apparently something catastrophic has not yet happened to emtpy the coffers and there-by motivate them...
Kind of speaks volumes as to the fact that MONEY, and nothing else, is the real root of this, and how much all parties involved stand to make from it. Pretty bad when the level of destruction and how much you expect to make going in is what your more interested in rather than getting people back up and going.
I generally do not see much of any coverage relating to the issues surrounding the DCMA and all the hoopla coming from it. Seems like all of the news about it is on Slashdot or the Register. Why are the big news outfits not publishing anything on this???
My suspicions are that "keeping it quiet" is a tendancy being brought about by a select group of lawyers that work quite possibly in the entertainment industry, and are looking to covet their bank accounts and the future deposits thereof.
I mean;.. we all know the silly thing is entirely political apeasement to a small group, and that somehow the thing got in and passed with very little fanfare. What is disturbing is that it takes all this to convince folks to take a look at the language of this thing, and research it against constitutional law. Odds are that you would find that it nullifies much of your rights without you ever even committing a crime!
Yea, I know... "Black hellicopter" and all... but.. sure does make you wonder what the heck is going on!!
Balmer comes in and begins to twist my arm, it would give me damned good reason to kick his ass from here to the very edge of the curb in the front parking lot... and then I'd tell him to never ever show his sorry-assed hiny up here ever again.
I don't no **** from nobody!:-)
Especially him.
I can tolerate the monkey dance simply because I can turn it off or get up and leave.:-)
I for one consider that anything that rediculous to be fighting over, and general mayhem,... because you have to have a damned video game!;... sheesh. I don't want to know where those gene's came from and don't want my kids associating with the likes of those!
I won't be having one of those in my house. My regular Xbox is problem enough without having to have something like that in there...
Nothing has really changed with all this except that the fat-cat lawyers have gotten so much much richer from all of the litigious engagements going on here there and everywhere!!!
Some of me almost wonders if there is "purchase" money floating around whereby someone from MS quite literally purchased and owns someone involved in these countries where they can ensure a successful outcome or at the very least, a trivial one.
Definately something smells rotton in the hills...
This smells so much like the lawyers are involved under the exclusivity of keeping it financially tough on IBM. Keep em' spending loads and loads of cash and get them to eventually dwindle the coffers.
Were you coding this stuff *really* in your spare time??? Did you do this at home or while in transit back and forth??? Then the company might litigate you over the rights to the code under the "inventions" clause in most employee manuals. Or did you do it on company computers and maybe over *your* lunch hour? Then they have the legal right to take it from you since you were doing it on their hardware.
It might be time to hand them what you've done and say; "Its now your problem. I was not hired here as, nor does my job description call me a !developer!. However you are now beginning to treat me like one. Does this entail a substantial increase in the monatary renumerations that I (we) see on the paycheck at the end of the pay period?".
Odds are, that's exactly what will happen. You will give up what you spent time on because the company will claim it as "inventions" and because you are an employee you are required to surrender this over to the company. This process is *assumed* when you took your employ with them in the first place. I had this happen to me once before and I learned my lesson way back when!!
Fact is that you should not have been engaging in this unless there was some "up front" possibility that they would encourage this and thustly reward this effort, or turn it into something better not only for the company, but where you also would benefit. From my personal history, managers are usually looking to retain their employ just as much as you are, and there is an old addage that goes something like;
"Sh*t rolls downhill, and your under me." (or some such to that)
Ok. This is a fabulous concept to use this for. I mean... to replace the newspapers and magazines print editions with these... Wow. marvelous!
Only thing is;
Why are we inventing and researching all this cool stuff, and then using this to do something we do every day;... a little differently? Why doesn't someone come up with something new and imaginative to use these for that doesn't re-invent the wheel??
Yea; I'll admit it's a tiche on the philosophical side...
Cheers; Jeff
It's amazing how this got off topic...
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RIAA Sues a Child
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· Score: 1
It's simply amazing how this got completely off topic and morphed into the validity of theft as applied to copyright infringement. I think many are missing the point on something here. I've been seeing this coming for some time now, and it's beginning to rear it's ugly head more and more.
If corporations are allowed to exploit stuff like this, then we're all heading down a slippery slope that none of us will be able to climb back up from! It's not so much the corporations I blame, but the lawyers that are putting them up to it. And you know the schools are churning out more and more lawyer types all the time, and for the most part, they want to start earning income right away, and large amounts of it no less. I bet it's the lawyers doing this and it's being done under the auspices of 'setting a precedent'. Hay; you lost out on a suit of the parent(s)...; now sue the child, and the responsibility falls back on the parent(s).
This can only spell one thing. Big trouble in little Dell!!
Micro$oft will undoubtedly begin the legal proceedings against Dell due to the fact that the fundamental purpose behind FreeDOS was to be able to run those old MSDOS programs!!! Microsoft wants em dead... dead... dead. Dell is just helping now to promote software piracy by mitigating users to continue to use those old MSDOS games and heaven forbid... Word for MSDOS!:-)
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Given Microsoft's history, both old and new, does anybody really believe this fodder coming out of them??? They have an advanced version of their license machine in Vista that is supposed to make up for the errors they experienced with the ones in Office and XP. There has to be something for them to get in unannounced for validation purposes.
I don't believe a word of it. Once a liar, always a liar. Steve Balmer is still with Microsoft right??? Pack of liars. I don't buy it.
No way!
I think whats really happening is that Yahoo and AOL are noticing that spam isn't going away, and in fact has a new bunch of trouters pushing the junk and they (the spammers) are making a ton of money out of it. Yahoo and AOL want a piece of their pie. The filters aren't generally working and they spammers continuously find ways around the filters. Big cat-n-mouse game. I think they stand to make some serious cash revenues out of this and it will help their corporate bottom lines more than it will effect the numbers of spam.
Keep those filters up on the client end boys and girls. It's the only way of evading this scourge of the planet!!
Cheers
Hmmm...
Cute little OS???
Well... Isn't that special!
I don't remember it being so little myself. That must be one hell of a firmware item because in a movable vehicle, I can't imagine an OS and software running from a hard drive that is suseptable to damage from vibration, etc.
Why???
I have Firefox now. In corporate America, why???
Just let em use IE for internal/Intranet based stuff, and then tutor/instruct end users to use Firefox, Mozilla or Opera when they want to "browse the web".
Start using IE now???
No thanks. They can keep it.
Seems as though these *reporters*...; if thats really who they are, have apparently not ever read, much less heard of the story about "The Sky Is Falling"... et al.
Typical monitarily biased media people...
lol.
Pretty soon it will be the crying wolf more than 3 times and no one will answer. Then there really will be trouble in paradise.
Cheers
Jeff
Have an electrician come in and do some wiring checks and fixes. You have a combination of two problems causing you to see this.
1: You have poor to non-existent grounds on one or more of the phases. This can be tested for by the electrician.
2: The HOT and Neutrals are swapped around and generally this isn't an issue except that *modern* power supplies are getting cheaper and cheaper and this usually means cutting out *some* parts like full-wave bridges for half-wave diode sets, and similar tricks. This then makes the circuit more effected by incoming AC and it's phase against ground or what little there is of it. (hence the reason for #1) There more than likely is a potential difference between the neutral and ground that is excessive and this is causing a cap-start circuit to ignite the switching and hence, a dead PS.
Cheers;
I read a lot of these comments so far, and I'm surprised... or maybe not at the apparent apathy towards reading EULA's and other things when you install software. I have been a long time iTunes user and have spent many a dollar there. I discovered the fact that it was profiling based on a particular scheme of purchases that I made. My musical tastes span the globe almost literally. And I could use that to my benefit to try this and it worked. And this was well over a year ago!
And you folks are just now finding this out???
Also on the next note, IF YOU AREN'T READING EULA'S OR AGREEMENTS WHEN YOU INSTALL SOFTWARE, THEN THE REAL PROBLEM IS WITH YOU. And in reality this is so true because iTunes would not be where it is today without the undying love of the music downloader who is now going legit after the death of "free Napster". And you just want to "get that thing installed so I can use it" kind of thinking.
I can't blame them for using a download demographic for pushing similar stuff. Everyone does it. I think they call that... "Marketing".
They teach that in school although I'm not sure where sometimes.
Cheers
This is all very interesting reading. After reading much of what this is about, it's now obvious that this is yet another frivolous law put on the books without due regard to research, and forward thinking. If it's put to the test and discovered to be a fallocy, it will take an act of congress to get the thing removed.
My suspicions about congress are rather high right now in part because this and a few other esoteric laws are either proposed or being made into law all-the-while many Congress people are dumping campaign donations right and left in the event their names come up from that lobbiest person (name escapes me right now) when he begins to spill the beans.
I don't trust anything going on in Washington right now because we're in one of those times where a lot of change is afoot. We seem to have one to many people in office that just plain don't have a clue and that seems to be causing all the change.
Cheers
(Oh yeah;... go ahead and revoke my First Amendment free-speech rights... I dare ya!! I've broken no laws and after getting your charge overturned, you'd see the next big overturning of your job, and possibly your physical freedom!)
Sony used to be a great company. They WERE the innovators of electronic technology both in consumer and commercial/broadcast markets. Now; they are nothing much over the junk you find in K-Mart's, Target's and other retailers selling highly marked up junk.
:-P
I at least can remember Sony the way they used to be. I still have my *original* Sony TPS-l2 walkman; the first and original in this country. It even has a very low serial number indicating it was very early production.
I agree that Sony spent way too much time trying to make the VIO computers look "special" and apart, but they are actually worse off then much of their competition out there. I know someone who's gone through 4 VIO desktop machines in 2 years. He desparately wants to get rid of it now and get a "real" box. I told him to search around on his box for the root kit and we can opt out of the class action suit and go for a direct suit to Sony for a full and complete refund on the machine's original purchase price, the expenses incurred to ship it in for service all those times, and last but not least, a modest fee for being subject of dissemination of personal data by a rogue program installed by Sony! Yea... thats the ticket!!
This really is just another in a long line of crap being pushed on the consumers by the lawyers who are the ones making the "real" money.
I supposed most of you have forgotten that for all those machines infected with this parsite, it will cost the user about $150 per machine to have it removed or the machine reloaded and the equivalent of that in your valuable time if you are doing it yourself.
Where do these bozo's get off with this one is beyond me!!
Hmmm...
I just got through reading a predominant amount of the posts here and I must say, I think the culmination of all posts on here represents a good and fair demographic of the field as a whole, and why it's heading in the dumper. There is no solidity in any of these messages other than the money and the relative lack of it.
I also don't buy into the statements of what they're turning out of the schools either. A lot; not all, but a lot of these kids are smart and can adapt quite well in todays trendy workplace. Much like me; an "old guy" who's been at this a long time, and had to be very quick and adept at adjustment and adaptation because of the way the people filling positions were hiring.
I myself have no "formal" training in IT. My background was in electronics. Computers were ancillary back then, and somehow over time migrated into a fundamental part of my day to day job(s). I think many who have been at this IT field for a while now will side with me when I say that what we're seeing is the imminent degradation of IT much like the electronics field did back in the 80's and 90's. Pretty soon, we'll begin to see system admin jobs being only available to low wage migrant workers who come up from Mexico on green cards. The guy you call at the help desk speaks English as a third language!... And so forth. The average American won't do these jobs anymore because no one wants to pay a livable wage. Much like custodial work!
It may be a bit of sad thinking here, but from my perspective, I can't even find companies that hire "Full Time" employees!!!! All they want now are Temps and Contractors since they don't have to handle ANY benefits, vacation time, or holiday pay. And when they decide they don't like the way you look, or your just out-n-out too damned old, they can kick your sorry butt to the door and not pay you anything!! I know because it's happened to me!(Age discrimination is a big problem in todays economy). It's a pretty "sucky" marketplace and economy if you ask me, and this will be reflective in your IT sector as economically challenged workers, highly transitional workers ever persuing the almighty buck, and people who were absolutely the best fit for a given IT position, leave and change careers because they have a family to support.
Just me two cents all!
Cheers
While this whole idea has a lot of utility for a lot of folks, I also see a lot of squabbling and possible other "problems" that can amount from it. In the past there have been incidents of people reading books only to turn round and threaten the author or get the author into a public forum of some type and try to publicly discrace them. Sometimes, people are fickle. You have to account for that.
I think this might have more use and merit in a university or other school setting as a means for discussion and topical ideas, but as a way to merge a reader and writer, probably dangerous...
Just a thought anyway.
Cheers
I get a kick out of the seemingly sarcastic sounding "how do I fix this" things that I see here, and have seen in many other places. Fact is that with "tech" moving at such a pace these days, people (those with lots of ready-cash) are more likely to just dump this stuff into the trash (and landfills) and just go buy something new, rather than fix it.
I have been doing this sort of thing now since something like 1998 with relative ease. The only hassle has been scrounging up the cold cathode tubes that are large enough to cover the screens like the originals. Some will note that these have been conspicuously absent from the after-market parts shelves up until a couple years ago when it became fashionable to "light up" your box with colored lights. You quite literally had to know how to find them prior to this because they did not want them to be found. Any technician worth his salt knew that if you could replace the tube (and it wasn't hard at all to do), you could revive a computer or screen and make some money rather than having the user tossing this item into the landfills and spending whopping amounts of cash on "new models". (Yea, thats an accusation about the major OEM players; NEC, Toshiba and Sanyo; IMO)
As for the brightness issue... If you've replaced the tube and it's still dim, it's nothing more than the capacitors failing on your DC to AC converter boards. The caps are rated so close to tolarance in manufacture that with heat buildup and time, they fail prematurely. I've successfully pulled the boards and replaced the caps to bring them back to life assuming the transistors and IC have not failed. The brightness issue is nothing more than deviating the PWM (pulse width modulation) of the AC out to the tube. This change in PWM changes the resonance for the tube's circuit and hence it's brightness level is related to the PWM circuit efficiency. When the caps become leaky and dry, the circuit can no longer approach its normal or calculated PWM value or resonance, and hence your screen no longer can get as bright as it used to. Color temperature changed screens are the same issue. The cc tube is just more sensative to the current PWM and is lighting up in a particular color temperature; usually a brown or reddish hue.
Theoretically these LCD screens can last for many, many years if you want to simply replace these tubes and fix their circuits when they fail. Based on past history and my direct attempts to get these cc tubes and parts from several OEM's directly; replacing the entire LCD screen as a complete part; at a hefty price I might add; is generally your ONLY choice. More often than not, the replacement LCD panel cost more than the whole monitor did new!!!
I expect however that replacing the cc tubes as a standard repair will not be available because the folks manufacturing the LCD screens seem to control the access and if there is limited or no access to the parts, you only have access to "NEW" screens... or obviously new monitors!
Your market... you decide!!
Cheers;
Why on earth would you expect them to embrace it?? There is NO cost incentive to go to this. Apparently something catastrophic has not yet happened to emtpy the coffers and there-by motivate them...
Kind of speaks volumes as to the fact that MONEY, and nothing else, is the real root of this, and how much all parties involved stand to make from it. Pretty bad when the level of destruction and how much you expect to make going in is what your more interested in rather than getting people back up and going.
Motives, motives, motives...
Cheers
I generally do not see much of any coverage relating to the issues surrounding the DCMA and all the hoopla coming from it. Seems like all of the news about it is on Slashdot or the Register. Why are the big news outfits not publishing anything on this???
My suspicions are that "keeping it quiet" is a tendancy being brought about by a select group of lawyers that work quite possibly in the entertainment industry, and are looking to covet their bank accounts and the future deposits thereof.
I mean;.. we all know the silly thing is entirely political apeasement to a small group, and that somehow the thing got in and passed with very little fanfare. What is disturbing is that it takes all this to convince folks to take a look at the language of this thing, and research it against constitutional law. Odds are that you would find that it nullifies much of your rights without you ever even committing a crime!
Yea, I know... "Black hellicopter" and all... but.. sure does make you wonder what the heck is going on!!
Cheers.
I don't know...
:-)
:-)
Balmer comes in and begins to twist my arm, it would give me damned good reason to kick his ass from here to the very edge of the curb in the front parking lot... and then I'd tell him to never ever show his sorry-assed hiny up here ever again.
I don't no **** from nobody!
Especially him.
I can tolerate the monkey dance simply because I can turn it off or get up and leave.
I for one consider that anything that rediculous to be fighting over, and general mayhem,... because you have to have a damned video game!;... sheesh. I don't want to know where those gene's came from and don't want my kids associating with the likes of those!
I won't be having one of those in my house. My regular Xbox is problem enough without having to have something like that in there...
Ok. This begs having these two things said.
:-)
1: You know this sort of thing was talked about in the bible right???!!!
2: There was a song back about 1970 by Zegar and Evans;... "In the year 2525"... Ain't gonna need no arms, ain't gonna need no hands...
Nothing has really changed with all this except that the fat-cat lawyers have gotten so much much richer from all of the litigious engagements going on here there and everywhere!!!
Some of me almost wonders if there is "purchase" money floating around whereby someone from MS quite literally purchased and owns someone involved in these countries where they can ensure a successful outcome or at the very least, a trivial one.
Definately something smells rotton in the hills...
Cheers;
This smells so much like the lawyers are involved under the exclusivity of keeping it financially tough on IBM. Keep em' spending loads and loads of cash and get them to eventually dwindle the coffers.
Stop what your doing right now and think...
Were you coding this stuff *really* in your spare time??? Did you do this at home or while in transit back and forth??? Then the company might litigate you over the rights to the code under the "inventions" clause in most employee manuals. Or did you do it on company computers and maybe over *your* lunch hour? Then they have the legal right to take it from you since you were doing it on their hardware.
It might be time to hand them what you've done and say; "Its now your problem. I was not hired here as, nor does my job description call me a !developer!. However you are now beginning to treat me like one. Does this entail a substantial increase in the monatary renumerations that I (we) see on the paycheck at the end of the pay period?".
Odds are, that's exactly what will happen. You will give up what you spent time on because the company will claim it as "inventions" and because you are an employee you are required to surrender this over to the company. This process is *assumed* when you took your employ with them in the first place. I had this happen to me once before and I learned my lesson way back when!!
Fact is that you should not have been engaging in this unless there was some "up front" possibility that they would encourage this and thustly reward this effort, or turn it into something better not only for the company, but where you also would benefit. From my personal history, managers are usually looking to retain their employ just as much as you are, and there is an old addage that goes something like;
"Sh*t rolls downhill, and your under me." (or some such to that)
Cheers;
Jeff
Ok. This is a fabulous concept to use this for. I mean... to replace the newspapers and magazines print editions with these... Wow. marvelous!
Only thing is;
Why are we inventing and researching all this cool stuff, and then using this to do something we do every day;... a little differently? Why doesn't someone come up with something new and imaginative to use these for that doesn't re-invent the wheel??
Yea; I'll admit it's a tiche on the philosophical side...
Cheers;
Jeff
It's simply amazing how this got completely off topic and morphed into the validity of theft as applied to copyright infringement. I think many are missing the point on something here. I've been seeing this coming for some time now, and it's beginning to rear it's ugly head more and more.
If corporations are allowed to exploit stuff like this, then we're all heading down a slippery slope that none of us will be able to climb back up from! It's not so much the corporations I blame, but the lawyers that are putting them up to it. And you know the schools are churning out more and more lawyer types all the time, and for the most part, they want to start earning income right away, and large amounts of it no less. I bet it's the lawyers doing this and it's being done under the auspices of 'setting a precedent'. Hay; you lost out on a suit of the parent(s)...; now sue the child, and the responsibility falls back on the parent(s).
Gads, you must have seen this coming!
Cheers
This can only spell one thing. Big trouble in little Dell!!
:-)
Micro$oft will undoubtedly begin the legal proceedings against Dell due to the fact that the fundamental purpose behind FreeDOS was to be able to run those old MSDOS programs!!! Microsoft wants em dead... dead... dead. Dell is just helping now to promote software piracy by mitigating users to continue to use those old MSDOS games and heaven forbid... Word for MSDOS!
Cheers