Amazing that even when you are trying to provide information you still come off like an arrogant cock. "A scholarly setting among lawyers" my ass. Most of the people here are, believe it or not, capable of understanding a logical progression of thought even if it comes from within your needlessly convoluted prefession.
If you have no information, can provide no insight, and are unwilling to speculate, why did you even bother with the interview? The whole thing could have been summed up in the headline. "Lawyer doesn't know how copyright law will change. Sharing music will get you sued."
If they use Spamcop, then they'll end up blocking gmail addresses unless they add it to the exception list.
The correct address to deal with Comcast spam blocking is blacklist_comcastnet@cable.comcast.com
Generally you'll get a response and be pulled from the list with a few hours. The only way you make it back on the list is customer complaints about SPAM from your address.
First, if the patent case was clear enough there will be a lawyer that will take the case pro bono for both the money and the exposure.
Second, you're confusing the problems with the legal system (the cost of bringing suit against a large company) with the principle behind a patent.
Third, calling checkmate incorrectly means that you lose.
In your world there is no reason to innovate at all, since a patent works against you and a large company will just steal your idea. So why do anything?
"Unfortunately, protection from competition breeds expenses, encourages waste and creates inefficient uncompetetive organizations."
Patents are needed to give people the incentive to innovate to begin with. Let's say that you come up with some novel, highly efficient form of the internal combustion engine. You put millions into research, mortgaged your house, everything. Without a patent, or equivalent legal means of protetion, some auto manufacturer could by 1 engine, tear it down, and due to the economies of scale begin producing it more cheaply than you almost immediately. So you've just pissed away years of effort and millions of dollars. That would be OK with you?
The biggest problem with the patents is the process. The USPTO is run like a sweatshop. You have a quota on how many patents to work on, not enough time to do adequate research into proir art, and people who are not specalized sufficiently in the fields that they are reviewing patent applications in.
Simply because there are a lot of people working on an idea does not invalidate the claim of the first one to bring it to market either. Another fundemental problem with the patent process is that patents are granted for concepts, not things. If you don't have a working example or implementation of what you are trying to patent, then no patent should be granted.
The real problem here rather than a flat out patent case seems to be that EchoStar simply acted in bad faith with TiVo by using a TiVo to jumpstart the development of their own product under the guise of licensing negotiations. I know that a lot of EchoStar customers could suffer due to the unethical behavior of their provider, but IMO all that means is that EchoStar customers should start lining up for a class action lawsuit to recover subscription fees immediately.
I hope not because it makes most Linux users look irrational and gives the impression that the quality of the product is secondary to the philosophy behind it. Alienating the little people is a fact of life simply because you can't please everybody all of the time. So you choose to work with the major players (IBM, DELL, etc) and have to give up on they people with the random, obscure whitebox machine.
I've run just about every major distro except Ubuntu at this point, and RedHat still is the best choice at the server level. And just to be clear, I mean servers that actually run 3rd party applications not just your personal website. Databases and development tools. If you think that hacking in an unsupported RAID card driver into a critical system is a good idea, maybe you should consider a career change.
At the desktop level, sure RedHat doesn't bundle some things which are illegal for a US based distro to install. Prior to yum it was painful, bujt not impossible. Now, Livna and yum take care of just about everything you could want in less than 30 minutes.
Ubuntu may have a more active development base from the "little people" perspective, but RedHat has real industry presence and support. Once a server room becomes more than 4 machines in a basement, that becomes important.
nVidia CAN'T open up their drivers IIRC. nVidia was founded by a bunch of SGI engineers, and once they started producing products the folks over at SGI found some of their technology in the nVidia products. As part of the settlement, nVidia can't release the code since I think they had to license it from SGI in the end.
I could swear that's they way that it is, but I can't find any definitive reference to the settlement.
OK, but you have to admit that none of that is anything that people would remember. The Land Before Time X? Voice work in direct-to-video stuff? Video games? I know that Samuel L Jackson has voice credits in GTA: San Andreas, but I hardly think of his as a voice actor.
I don't think that his non-voice acting should disqualify him simply because he does it. It should disqualify him because he does it poorly, IMO. There are people who are better qualified and will create a better quality product. Getting one name in the credits for some drawing power is understandable, but loading up on them just seems like a bad idea.
Actually, I never mentioned CPU vs GPU bottlenecks in anything. Don't get all self-righteous without being able to read.
You can buy/build a gaming rig that will handle all the games you will want to play with a sub-$200 CPU and a sub-$300 video card right now. Getting the latest and greatest doesn't apply unless you feel inadequate because you can't play in 1200x1600 with 4xAA. Trying to buy something now to future-proof it is futile in the computer world because you technology will be eclipsed by something better and cheaper in 6 months, unless you live on the bleeding edge and have a huge budget.
Brand loyalty should be somewhat important as well. Obviously you want the most for your money, but if AMD goes away how long are you willing to wait until somebody comes along to challenge Intel again? Might be a lot longer than 2009.
Why bother with Keifer and Lucy at all? Why not hire some real voice actors to bring some personality to the characters? That way we could become involved in the story and the characters without having to think of Xena at all.
Billy West is right... this is a strange trend of animating characters around who you want to do the voice rather than the other way round.
I'm currently running AMD on all my machines and was looking at upgrading to a X2 CPU later this year. Core 2 Duo has completely changed that. Instead I'm looking at an Intel based system where the money I save on the CPU can be put towards a stronger video card instead.
And next year (or 2) AMD will pass Intel again and you'll have to change your mind again. Why don't you just stick with AMD since it was their competition that brought you this little gem from Intel? Without AMD, you'd still have a 3.0 Ghz P4 and youd be paying $700 for it. The power consumption and heat numbers are nice, but that really makes more difference in server rooms than desktop machines.
As for the games... who cares? Can you really see the difference between 155 fps and 187 fps? Can your monitor refresh as 200 Hz? It's just another numbers game that ALL of the manufacturers use to inspire penis envy.
"I have a rig overclocked to 4 GHz, ATI crossfire cards, and get 253 fps out of Quake 4. What do you have?".
"A life."
I don't see how this is monopoly practices or anything else. Ebay does not have a monopoly on on-line auctions, even though many people can't think of another site. There are plenty.
Additionally, if Google doesn't like it, they can create their own auction site and take PayPal to attract the broadest range of users. It's not like they don't have the infrastructure. And if they incorporate their search technology into the auction site, you might be able to actually find what you're looking for.
This is a big mistake by Ebay. Google just put a shot across their bow with Google Checkout, and Ebay chose to fight rather than make the smart (from a business and longevity standpoint) decision.
Googleplace. That's the name. Some place in FL is squatting on it, but Google will take it if they want it.
Actually, there isn't. Imperial units work fine for just about everything. In fact, metric is pretty much the dumbed down version of measurement. Just multiply by 10 for different units! What could be easier?
Base 10 measuring systems suck for many, well documented reasons.
What is different between this approach and Ebonics? Or any of the other attempts as phoenetic spelling that have been floating around for the past 30 years?
Except that VoIP providers are just as unlikely to give you administrative access to your endpoint (your Cisco, Sipura, Telco, or whatever box). So, they would have to set it up for you. And they will (more than likely) be just as unresponsive and unwilling simpy because they don't have the support staff to handle the request.
VoIP prices are too low for any serious support infrastructure to exist as well. If you ever talk with anybody who works for Vonage or any other large VoIP proider in a technical capacity, it's frightening. Most times your average helpdesk drone knows more about IP networks than they do. Then you have a few technically incomptetent people at the top bleeding off the VC money into their salaries.
Having the word "vendor" in there implies that the is some sort of financial transaction involved with purchasing the product (or a license to use, etc, etc.). In that context, Free Software doesn't really have "vendors". The implication is that it is a best effort, but all code is provided "as-is".
Charging for support of a free product would be a little trickier if a change that you advised caused a problem, but most companies providing support probably indemnify themselves against that kind of thing anyway.
Yes, because you assumed the principles believed in were the ones they said they did.
I think this is exactly right. Things aren't so much different than they were 20, 30, or even 50 years ago now. The fundemental failing of this administration is their inability to hide it. Their mistakes, miscues, and lame attempts at misdirection have been so poorly managed that the corruption inherent in the system is now obvious. And it is so obvious that the "government" has lost even plausible deniability.
You can do that creating Snapshot views in ClearCase.
One shop that I worked at ran ClearCase on Solaris and Linux (RH 7.3) and it was fine. No noticable difference between ClearCase and any other build over an NFS mount.
Running it on Windows was miserable. It didn't matter what the back end was (NFS or CIFS) it just sucked.
You make your living providing a service, not selling a product (other than yourself). It's the difference between Ford and a mechanic. If somebody starts giving away cars for free it diminshes the market for the provider of the product, not the service.
Yep. Congrats on finding an even faster, cheaper, and easier way to outsource technical jobs. Brilliant. Now instead of somebody in India I'll get a 12 year-old in Bolivia who is skipping school to make 15 cents/hour. Fabulous.
Open Source is not gaining market share, since it is not generally marketable as a product. It's filling spaces that people would have to find a marketable product for, but all it really does is decrease the size of the market for the non-Open Source players.
Sun does use and distribute free software, but doesn't really need it for it's core business needs. Oracle on Solaris does not need gcc or many other free software packages. Smaller free databases (MySQL, etc) running on Linux have eaten market share, but nobody in their right mind runs that in an environment where your business life depends on it (and if you do, don't disagree, re-evaluate your decision).
And finally, RMS is just a zealot who refuses to see that there is any other way than his way. If he hadn't made a spot for himself in academia he would have starved in a cardboard box under an overpass long ago.
Dell laptops are assembled in Malaysia and shipped to the US from there. Components are mostly Taiwan, Singapore, and Korea. I'm sure there is China in there too, but there doesn't seem to be a lot.
For about $1/GB you can have something really cool. Check out Data Domain boxes. Capacity optimized storage (which is cool in itself) which looks like a backup device. http://www.datadomain.com/
So, stream your backup to disk, clone DR to tape, but you can keep months of backups on line. Admittedly, the Data Domain boxes are not for archival purposes but they should be a lot faster and more reliable than tape for the typical duties of a backup system (1 file, maybe a directory structure).
They also support WAN replication so you can mirror your backups offsite. It's not cheap, but it isn't stuffing tapes in boxes either.
(no, I don't work for them. I just think they're pretty cool)
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Amazing that even when you are trying to provide information you still come off like an arrogant cock. "A scholarly setting among lawyers" my ass. Most of the people here are, believe it or not, capable of understanding a logical progression of thought even if it comes from within your needlessly convoluted prefession.
If you have no information, can provide no insight, and are unwilling to speculate, why did you even bother with the interview? The whole thing could have been summed up in the headline. "Lawyer doesn't know how copyright law will change. Sharing music will get you sued."
If they use Spamcop, then they'll end up blocking gmail addresses unless they add it to the exception list.
The correct address to deal with Comcast spam blocking is blacklist_comcastnet@cable.comcast.com
Generally you'll get a response and be pulled from the list with a few hours. The only way you make it back on the list is customer complaints about SPAM from your address.
First, if the patent case was clear enough there will be a lawyer that will take the case pro bono for both the money and the exposure.
Second, you're confusing the problems with the legal system (the cost of bringing suit against a large company) with the principle behind a patent.
Third, calling checkmate incorrectly means that you lose.
In your world there is no reason to innovate at all, since a patent works against you and a large company will just steal your idea. So why do anything?
"Unfortunately, protection from competition breeds expenses, encourages waste and creates inefficient uncompetetive organizations."
Patents are needed to give people the incentive to innovate to begin with. Let's say that you come up with some novel, highly efficient form of the internal combustion engine. You put millions into research, mortgaged your house, everything. Without a patent, or equivalent legal means of protetion, some auto manufacturer could by 1 engine, tear it down, and due to the economies of scale begin producing it more cheaply than you almost immediately. So you've just pissed away years of effort and millions of dollars. That would be OK with you?
The biggest problem with the patents is the process. The USPTO is run like a sweatshop. You have a quota on how many patents to work on, not enough time to do adequate research into proir art, and people who are not specalized sufficiently in the fields that they are reviewing patent applications in.
Simply because there are a lot of people working on an idea does not invalidate the claim of the first one to bring it to market either. Another fundemental problem with the patent process is that patents are granted for concepts, not things. If you don't have a working example or implementation of what you are trying to patent, then no patent should be granted.
The real problem here rather than a flat out patent case seems to be that EchoStar simply acted in bad faith with TiVo by using a TiVo to jumpstart the development of their own product under the guise of licensing negotiations. I know that a lot of EchoStar customers could suffer due to the unethical behavior of their provider, but IMO all that means is that EchoStar customers should start lining up for a class action lawsuit to recover subscription fees immediately.
I hope not because it makes most Linux users look irrational and gives the impression that the quality of the product is secondary to the philosophy behind it. Alienating the little people is a fact of life simply because you can't please everybody all of the time. So you choose to work with the major players (IBM, DELL, etc) and have to give up on they people with the random, obscure whitebox machine.
I've run just about every major distro except Ubuntu at this point, and RedHat still is the best choice at the server level. And just to be clear, I mean servers that actually run 3rd party applications not just your personal website. Databases and development tools. If you think that hacking in an unsupported RAID card driver into a critical system is a good idea, maybe you should consider a career change.
At the desktop level, sure RedHat doesn't bundle some things which are illegal for a US based distro to install. Prior to yum it was painful, bujt not impossible. Now, Livna and yum take care of just about everything you could want in less than 30 minutes.
Ubuntu may have a more active development base from the "little people" perspective, but RedHat has real industry presence and support. Once a server room becomes more than 4 machines in a basement, that becomes important.
nVidia CAN'T open up their drivers IIRC. nVidia was founded by a bunch of SGI engineers, and once they started producing products the folks over at SGI found some of their technology in the nVidia products. As part of the settlement, nVidia can't release the code since I think they had to license it from SGI in the end.
I could swear that's they way that it is, but I can't find any definitive reference to the settlement.
OK, but you have to admit that none of that is anything that people would remember. The Land Before Time X? Voice work in direct-to-video stuff? Video games? I know that Samuel L Jackson has voice credits in GTA: San Andreas, but I hardly think of his as a voice actor.
I don't think that his non-voice acting should disqualify him simply because he does it. It should disqualify him because he does it poorly, IMO. There are people who are better qualified and will create a better quality product. Getting one name in the credits for some drawing power is understandable, but loading up on them just seems like a bad idea.
Actually, I never mentioned CPU vs GPU bottlenecks in anything. Don't get all self-righteous without being able to read.
You can buy/build a gaming rig that will handle all the games you will want to play with a sub-$200 CPU and a sub-$300 video card right now. Getting the latest and greatest doesn't apply unless you feel inadequate because you can't play in 1200x1600 with 4xAA. Trying to buy something now to future-proof it is futile in the computer world because you technology will be eclipsed by something better and cheaper in 6 months, unless you live on the bleeding edge and have a huge budget.
Brand loyalty should be somewhat important as well. Obviously you want the most for your money, but if AMD goes away how long are you willing to wait until somebody comes along to challenge Intel again? Might be a lot longer than 2009.
Why bother with Keifer and Lucy at all? Why not hire some real voice actors to bring some personality to the characters? That way we could become involved in the story and the characters without having to think of Xena at all.
Billy West is right... this is a strange trend of animating characters around who you want to do the voice rather than the other way round.
I'm currently running AMD on all my machines and was looking at upgrading to a X2 CPU later this year. Core 2 Duo has completely changed that. Instead I'm looking at an Intel based system where the money I save on the CPU can be put towards a stronger video card instead.
And next year (or 2) AMD will pass Intel again and you'll have to change your mind again. Why don't you just stick with AMD since it was their competition that brought you this little gem from Intel? Without AMD, you'd still have a 3.0 Ghz P4 and youd be paying $700 for it. The power consumption and heat numbers are nice, but that really makes more difference in server rooms than desktop machines.
As for the games... who cares? Can you really see the difference between 155 fps and 187 fps? Can your monitor refresh as 200 Hz? It's just another numbers game that ALL of the manufacturers use to inspire penis envy.
"I have a rig overclocked to 4 GHz, ATI crossfire cards, and get 253 fps out of Quake 4. What do you have?"."A life."
Actually, blackjack is the only game where you DO have an advantage over the house if they play with the standard "Hit on 16, stand on 17" rules.
It works out to something like 2%, but it does exist.
And getting that wrong pretty much makes the rest of your post irrelevant.
I don't see how this is monopoly practices or anything else. Ebay does not have a monopoly on on-line auctions, even though many people can't think of another site. There are plenty.
Additionally, if Google doesn't like it, they can create their own auction site and take PayPal to attract the broadest range of users. It's not like they don't have the infrastructure. And if they incorporate their search technology into the auction site, you might be able to actually find what you're looking for.
This is a big mistake by Ebay. Google just put a shot across their bow with Google Checkout, and Ebay chose to fight rather than make the smart (from a business and longevity standpoint) decision.
Googleplace. That's the name. Some place in FL is squatting on it, but Google will take it if they want it.
This is just proof that /. needs an Ironic moderation tag.
Actually, there isn't. Imperial units work fine for just about everything. In fact, metric is pretty much the dumbed down version of measurement. Just multiply by 10 for different units! What could be easier?
Base 10 measuring systems suck for many, well documented reasons.
What is different between this approach and Ebonics? Or any of the other attempts as phoenetic spelling that have been floating around for the past 30 years?
Except that VoIP providers are just as unlikely to give you administrative access to your endpoint (your Cisco, Sipura, Telco, or whatever box). So, they would have to set it up for you. And they will (more than likely) be just as unresponsive and unwilling simpy because they don't have the support staff to handle the request.
VoIP prices are too low for any serious support infrastructure to exist as well. If you ever talk with anybody who works for Vonage or any other large VoIP proider in a technical capacity, it's frightening. Most times your average helpdesk drone knows more about IP networks than they do. Then you have a few technically incomptetent people at the top bleeding off the VC money into their salaries.
Having the word "vendor" in there implies that the is some sort of financial transaction involved with purchasing the product (or a license to use, etc, etc.). In that context, Free Software doesn't really have "vendors". The implication is that it is a best effort, but all code is provided "as-is".
Charging for support of a free product would be a little trickier if a change that you advised caused a problem, but most companies providing support probably indemnify themselves against that kind of thing anyway.
Yes, because you assumed the principles believed in were the ones they said they did.
I think this is exactly right. Things aren't so much different than they were 20, 30, or even 50 years ago now. The fundemental failing of this administration is their inability to hide it. Their mistakes, miscues, and lame attempts at misdirection have been so poorly managed that the corruption inherent in the system is now obvious. And it is so obvious that the "government" has lost even plausible deniability.
I don't think it's a matter of being interesting or fun. It's a question of whether it is neccessary or not.
Rather than ignoring it and hoping it goes away, how about suggesting an alternative solution to the problem at hand?
You can do that creating Snapshot views in ClearCase.
One shop that I worked at ran ClearCase on Solaris and Linux (RH 7.3) and it was fine. No noticable difference between ClearCase and any other build over an NFS mount.
Running it on Windows was miserable. It didn't matter what the back end was (NFS or CIFS) it just sucked.
You make your living providing a service, not selling a product (other than yourself). It's the difference between Ford and a mechanic. If somebody starts giving away cars for free it diminshes the market for the provider of the product, not the service.
Yep. Congrats on finding an even faster, cheaper, and easier way to outsource technical jobs. Brilliant. Now instead of somebody in India I'll get a 12 year-old in Bolivia who is skipping school to make 15 cents/hour. Fabulous.
Open Source is not gaining market share, since it is not generally marketable as a product. It's filling spaces that people would have to find a marketable product for, but all it really does is decrease the size of the market for the non-Open Source players.
Sun does use and distribute free software, but doesn't really need it for it's core business needs. Oracle on Solaris does not need gcc or many other free software packages. Smaller free databases (MySQL, etc) running on Linux have eaten market share, but nobody in their right mind runs that in an environment where your business life depends on it (and if you do, don't disagree, re-evaluate your decision).
And finally, RMS is just a zealot who refuses to see that there is any other way than his way. If he hadn't made a spot for himself in academia he would have starved in a cardboard box under an overpass long ago.
Dell laptops are assembled in Malaysia and shipped to the US from there. Components are mostly Taiwan, Singapore, and Korea. I'm sure there is China in there too, but there doesn't seem to be a lot.
For about $1/GB you can have something really cool. Check out Data Domain boxes. Capacity optimized storage (which is cool in itself) which looks like a backup device. http://www.datadomain.com/ So, stream your backup to disk, clone DR to tape, but you can keep months of backups on line. Admittedly, the Data Domain boxes are not for archival purposes but they should be a lot faster and more reliable than tape for the typical duties of a backup system (1 file, maybe a directory structure). They also support WAN replication so you can mirror your backups offsite. It's not cheap, but it isn't stuffing tapes in boxes either. (no, I don't work for them. I just think they're pretty cool)