Technically they can argue (and they do) that you're 'harming' the publisher and the artist by depriving them of the income they'd get because those people who took your CD would have otherwise bought the CD in the store.
(That's their arguement. Besides the fact that most people just get the music cause it's free and would not necessarily buy it. Or that some people download to hear it once and then buy the album (the whole argument behind licence free music on radio))
Well, I'm sure many would be willing to join USPTO as patent examiners but for one thing: the pay. People who have the skills to examine these patents and to investigate prior art etc. are deterred by the dismal pay USPTO is offering: salary starts at less than a half of what software developers with measly 3-7 years experience are offered around DC these days, and the ceiling is definitively way under what someone qualified could make in the private sector or even as a contractor for the government.
You're a moron if you think that a you can "grow a pair" and "admit responsibility" for something your boss mandates that you do. What would you have done? Refuse and quit? Where would you work then? Flipping burgers? Do you often refuse tasks given to you by your boss? If so, I suspect you'll be unemployed soon.
Yeah... It pained me when I had to kill boars to get ribs and then one in 10 boars dropped ribs. What was that about? Are boars walking around with no ribs?
Well, I worked in retail and most of the time official "representatives" are never really employed by the company they represent. They're employed by some third party marketing company who pays them little to no money to go around and set up kiosks, refill printer cartridges or what not. So even if he's been instructed to say that the consoles freeze up because of a "feature" the instruction did not come from Sony.
I really don't see why you have a problem with that particular entry. It is marked that this is according to a Cambridge scholar. Not stated as a fact, but it is qualified as a statement by someone else.
I don't see why it is impossible that the KGB used the same tactics as the CIA did in supporting certain factions within countries that it found favorable to their cause.
As to your previous entry about free press.... I now lived under both communism and capitalism, and I say give me US capitalism any day. Free press is definitively here. You're just complaining that YOUR point of view is not as popular as you'd like it to be. You are welcome to change that fact, as you are doing now on Slashdot.
Well, one last hope against the wiretap bill is the Supreme Court. No matter what they say about em, the people on that bench are usually pretty good about striking down unconstitutional laws. Someone needs to bring this up before the Supreme Court. If THAT fails, then it's time to worry.
There are no anti-monoply laws. There are antitrust laws that a monopoly may be in violation of. From wikipedia:
A business with a monopoly over certain products or services may be in violation of antitrust laws if it has abused its dominant position or market power. Although not all anti-competitive behavior which is subject to antitrust laws involve illegal cartels or trusts, the following types of activity are generally prohibited.
The reason the government does not act on certain monopolies is that they don't engage in such practices which discourage new businesses and stifle competition.
I see you've a Canadian email address so I'll cut you some slack here since there is a chance you're talking out of your ass and don't know what you're talking about. Most of the kids who used to sign up for the military were there to BECOME a doctor or an engineer. The government was good about paying for college if you served a few years, there was no war at that time and everything was good. Then came 9/11. Kids felt their country was attacked and signed up in droves. THEN they realized people get killed. Their friends get killed. The civilians get caught in the crossfire. Suddently not so many kids are signing up anymore (according to you, since there is misery in war people would be thrilled and be signing up in droves). The military is not about profiting from misery of others. You're referring to war profiteers, companies that drive up costs and overcharge on gasoline and staples when they're needed the most.
The military is doing good work. They've got a mission and they're trying to implement it with minimal loss of life on both sides. IMO the military LEADERSHIP (and I mean people above the Joint Chiefs) and Congress, the ones that gave the military this mission are the ones bungling stuff up.
First, the records were there to begin with just because it's practical. Why keep the records across the world and waste bandwith any time you need to access them. However, moving them to US is a good step.
I assume that Google will hand over the records if asked for them, because they do have to follow the law. However, by removing the records they can actually make public the fact that they are being asked for them. The Chinese goverment can't send in someone to the data center to secretly copy the data. They have to announce it, (or at least demand the data from Google, who can then announce it). That is the first step in getting rid of this kind of abuse. When people are AWARE that their government is actually doing this stuff, when they are AWARE that someone is actually getting the records of their searches, at that time some people will stop rationalizing ("oh, well maybe they get the records, maybe they don't) and maybe they'll do something about it.
Google will also let people know that their data has been censored. That is also an important step in getting rid of censorship. When one KNOWS that there is SOMETHING more out there, they will be a bit more resentful about the censure and a bit more curious about the truth. That is the way to fight censors around the world.
1. Someone mentioned this before but I'll say it again: use a headhunter agency. This is the quickest and the surest way to get a job quickly. 2. Don't worry about being only 1 year in this position. This is pretty much the norm in the entry level positions, especially in your line of work, that is why they're piling work on, they know you're going to leave soon and they want to get the most out of you. 3. Burn a vacation day, or a sick day, or at least take a half day. Sleep in and then put in the rest of the time into cleaning up your resume and writing a decent cover letter. 4. Be prepared to burn vacation days to interview, or take unpaid leave. Tell your work this is a personal commitment or you need it off for health reasons but you won't get interviews if you can't get there during the normal week office hours. 5. Talk to your manager. Tell them you're almost burnt out. If they're reasonable they'll give you some slack for a week or two. Perfect time to rest up and work on your resume. If not... well, you really don't want to work there then.
If you have problems with working long hours, consider working for a non-profit. I took a position with a non profit, and I've gotta tell you that 35 hr weeks (9-5 days with 1hr unpaid lunch, flexible start time from 8am - 10am) was AWSOME. It allowed me to develop my skills outside of the workplace, get a life, rest and actually have leisure time to enjoy. I took a pay cut, but I count a 15% pay cut for a 50% less hours worth it.
I don't know if it's available now, but when I bought my last two computers over eBay I used escrow to ensure fair dealings. It saved me a lot of anxiety and I didn't have to worry about fraud. Yeah, some sellers were pissed off that I wanted to used escrow and did not agree to it. ("My feedback is clean man, no escrow is needed") If they didn't agree, too bad. I was happy to pay the escrow fee to ensure that I didn't get ripped off.
Britannica is still useful precisely because it is a frozen encyclopedia. Someone can look at a reference in a research paper and know exactly which version of the text someone looked at and used in their research. It also serves as a knowledge repository that can be used (EASILY) to see how the understanding of a particular topic has expanded and changed over the ages. Once Wikipedia has the ability to easily show a page as it was on a particular day that would probably mean the end of Britannica.
'FairPlay' DRM? Not good. I can't play it outside iTunes. It's an Apple service intended for video iPod users. Why would they want you to have it anywhere else?
Open and accessible store? Nope. You need iTunes which is only available for Macintosh and Windows. Hm, Mac OS X and Windows. That covers how much market?
Compatibility with many devices? Nope. Only one: the iPod 5G. Here's an idea. Lets build a time machine and go back and build in video functionality in the old iPods.
Well at least I can create a DVD, like iTunes lets me burn a CD with my purchased songs, right? Nope. No burning. Only playback. Hrm. Let's see. Can you play a DVD on your iPod? No?
Well at least the new episodes of Law & Order, which are filmed in HDTV, will be shown in brilliant 1280x720 resolution, right? Nope. 320x240. Again, you're talking about a service for the video iPod. The resolution it can display is only so high.
Good for you, Apple. Welcome to the 19th century. I'll be over here with my trusty BitTorrent client. 19th century? Wow. I guess you're trying to make your point. Yet Apple is the first company to offer something like this.
As for BitTorrent, grow up. Do you seriously expect that everyone would work for free to create these shows? Imagine if half the audience for Lost suddenly started watching the shows only on BitTorrent. The advertisement rates for the slot would drop, creating less cash for the network and the show, probably causing the network to pull the show because it's not creating enough revenue. That is one of the reasons I shell out $40 for the seasons worth of Battlestar Galactica. I know I can get a reasonable quality copy off BitTorrent, probably even the very same DVD images. However I'd like to see more of the show. Thus I pay some money so the actors and the crew and the network can earn some money and be encouraged to create another season.
Actually, having been in the military and having IQ over the police "cap" I can tell you that the REASON for having someone in the army to follow orders is because most of the time the soldier does not have the complete view of the situation. You depend on the CO to have that information and make decisions accordingly (because there is often no time to do more than that). That said, soldiers of today are more independent than ever seeing how they have to deal with local populace without immediate contact with the CO.
Regarding the police, the IQ cap is there merely to prevent people getting bored with their jobs, because it takes a special kind of intelligent person able to deal with sitting around most of the day and filing paperwork. Most of police work is BORING.
From TransMedia (Glide creator) Terms and Conditions:
Materials provided to TransMedia or Posted at any TransMedia Web Site
TransMedia does not claim ownership of the materials you provide to TransMedia (including feedback and suggestions) or post, upload, input or submit to any Services or its associated services for review by the general public, or by the members of any public or private community, (each a "Submission" and collectively "Submissions"). However, by posting, uploading, inputting, providing or submitting ("Posting") your Submission you are granting TransMedia, its affiliated companies and necessary sublicensees permission to use your Submission in connection with the operation of their Internet businesses (including, without limitation, all TransMedia Services), including, without limitation, the license rights to: copy, distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, reproduce, edit, translate and reformat your Submission; to publish your name in connection with your Submission; and the right to sublicense such rights to any supplier of the Services....
What this basically means is that you're giving them management rights to whatever you're posting on their service. So if you're a starving artist and you store your next hit song on their service, they have the right to copy, distribute, transmit etc. that song, or just sublicense it to someone else.
This is wrong. They are basically asking for you to give up all the rights without any compensation for it just by using the service. I definitively won't be using this service.
That would be great if the system to get new software installed actually worked. Right now I can't install anything on my machine and I had to fight with the help desk in order to run Tomcat on my machine for local development. I can't even open the system calendar. There is no way for me to get updates, but more importantly I can't try out new tools. There is downtime during work and I'd rather spend it figuring out a new tool than hitting refresh on Slashdot every 10 mins.
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Hey, you're disagreeing with the government, thus you're an EC. Revoke his citizenship! Kill him!
Slippery slope, friend...
Technically they can argue (and they do) that you're 'harming' the publisher and the artist by depriving them of the income they'd get because those people who took your CD would have otherwise bought the CD in the store.
(That's their arguement. Besides the fact that most people just get the music cause it's free and would not necessarily buy it. Or that some people download to hear it once and then buy the album (the whole argument behind licence free music on radio))
Well, I'm sure many would be willing to join USPTO as patent examiners but for one thing: the pay. People who have the skills to examine these patents and to investigate prior art etc. are deterred by the dismal pay USPTO is offering: salary starts at less than a half of what software developers with measly 3-7 years experience are offered around DC these days, and the ceiling is definitively way under what someone qualified could make in the private sector or even as a contractor for the government.
Don't blame the country (and the countrymen/women), blame the totalitarian government.
NOT.
Read the parenthesis right before the bold section.
"EXCLUDING personally identifiable information of students and ANY PAPERS SUBMITTED TO THE SITE."
You're a moron if you think that a you can "grow a pair" and "admit responsibility" for something your boss mandates that you do. What would you have done? Refuse and quit? Where would you work then? Flipping burgers? Do you often refuse tasks given to you by your boss? If so, I suspect you'll be unemployed soon.
Yeah... It pained me when I had to kill boars to get ribs and then one in 10 boars dropped ribs. What was that about? Are boars walking around with no ribs?
Well, I worked in retail and most of the time official "representatives" are never really employed by the company they represent. They're employed by some third party marketing company who pays them little to no money to go around and set up kiosks, refill printer cartridges or what not. So even if he's been instructed to say that the consoles freeze up because of a "feature" the instruction did not come from Sony.
I really don't see why you have a problem with that particular entry. It is marked that this is according to a Cambridge scholar. Not stated as a fact, but it is qualified as a statement by someone else.
I don't see why it is impossible that the KGB used the same tactics as the CIA did in supporting certain factions within countries that it found favorable to their cause.
As to your previous entry about free press.... I now lived under both communism and capitalism, and I say give me US capitalism any day. Free press is definitively here. You're just complaining that YOUR point of view is not as popular as you'd like it to be. You are welcome to change that fact, as you are doing now on Slashdot.
Well, one last hope against the wiretap bill is the Supreme Court. No matter what they say about em, the people on that bench are usually pretty good about striking down unconstitutional laws. Someone needs to bring this up before the Supreme Court. If THAT fails, then it's time to worry.
This will make a killer Penny Arcade comic. Can't wait till tomorrow.
How do you lose funding if you're an industry stooge? Wouldn't the industry fund you?
There are no anti-monoply laws. There are antitrust laws that a monopoly may be in violation of. From wikipedia:
A business with a monopoly over certain products or services may be in violation of antitrust laws if it has abused its dominant position or market power. Although not all anti-competitive behavior which is subject to antitrust laws involve illegal cartels or trusts, the following types of activity are generally prohibited.
Bid rigging
Predatory pricing
Price fixing
Tying
Vendor lock-in
Group boycotts
The reason the government does not act on certain monopolies is that they don't engage in such practices which discourage new businesses and stifle competition.
(nothing is black and white, dammit!)
Except for black and white. And maybe white and black. Checkered flag? Um... that might be it.
I see you've a Canadian email address so I'll cut you some slack here since there is a chance you're talking out of your ass and don't know what you're talking about. Most of the kids who used to sign up for the military were there to BECOME a doctor or an engineer. The government was good about paying for college if you served a few years, there was no war at that time and everything was good. Then came 9/11. Kids felt their country was attacked and signed up in droves. THEN they realized people get killed. Their friends get killed. The civilians get caught in the crossfire. Suddently not so many kids are signing up anymore (according to you, since there is misery in war people would be thrilled and be signing up in droves). The military is not about profiting from misery of others. You're referring to war profiteers, companies that drive up costs and overcharge on gasoline and staples when they're needed the most.
The military is doing good work. They've got a mission and they're trying to implement it with minimal loss of life on both sides. IMO the military LEADERSHIP (and I mean people above the Joint Chiefs) and Congress, the ones that gave the military this mission are the ones bungling stuff up.
First, the records were there to begin with just because it's practical. Why keep the records across the world and waste bandwith any time you need to access them. However, moving them to US is a good step.
I assume that Google will hand over the records if asked for them, because they do have to follow the law. However, by removing the records they can actually make public the fact that they are being asked for them. The Chinese goverment can't send in someone to the data center to secretly copy the data. They have to announce it, (or at least demand the data from Google, who can then announce it). That is the first step in getting rid of this kind of abuse. When people are AWARE that their government is actually doing this stuff, when they are AWARE that someone is actually getting the records of their searches, at that time some people will stop rationalizing ("oh, well maybe they get the records, maybe they don't) and maybe they'll do something about it.
Google will also let people know that their data has been censored. That is also an important step in getting rid of censorship. When one KNOWS that there is SOMETHING more out there, they will be a bit more resentful about the censure and a bit more curious about the truth. That is the way to fight censors around the world.
1. Someone mentioned this before but I'll say it again: use a headhunter agency. This is the quickest and the surest way to get a job quickly.
2. Don't worry about being only 1 year in this position. This is pretty much the norm in the entry level positions, especially in your line of work, that is why they're piling work on, they know you're going to leave soon and they want to get the most out of you.
3. Burn a vacation day, or a sick day, or at least take a half day. Sleep in and then put in the rest of the time into cleaning up your resume and writing a decent cover letter.
4. Be prepared to burn vacation days to interview, or take unpaid leave. Tell your work this is a personal commitment or you need it off for health reasons but you won't get interviews if you can't get there during the normal week office hours.
5. Talk to your manager. Tell them you're almost burnt out. If they're reasonable they'll give you some slack for a week or two. Perfect time to rest up and work on your resume. If not... well, you really don't want to work there then.
If you have problems with working long hours, consider working for a non-profit. I took a position with a non profit, and I've gotta tell you that 35 hr weeks (9-5 days with 1hr unpaid lunch, flexible start time from 8am - 10am) was AWSOME. It allowed me to develop my skills outside of the workplace, get a life, rest and actually have leisure time to enjoy. I took a pay cut, but I count a 15% pay cut for a 50% less hours worth it.
I don't know if it's available now, but when I bought my last two computers over eBay I used escrow to ensure fair dealings. It saved me a lot of anxiety and I didn't have to worry about fraud. Yeah, some sellers were pissed off that I wanted to used escrow and did not agree to it. ("My feedback is clean man, no escrow is needed") If they didn't agree, too bad. I was happy to pay the escrow fee to ensure that I didn't get ripped off.
Britannica is still useful precisely because it is a frozen encyclopedia. Someone can look at a reference in a research paper and know exactly which version of the text someone looked at and used in their research.
It also serves as a knowledge repository that can be used (EASILY) to see how the understanding of a particular topic has expanded and changed over the ages.
Once Wikipedia has the ability to easily show a page as it was on a particular day that would probably mean the end of Britannica.
'FairPlay' DRM? Not good. I can't play it outside iTunes.
It's an Apple service intended for video iPod users. Why would they want you to have it anywhere else?
Open and accessible store? Nope. You need iTunes which is only available for Macintosh and Windows.
Hm, Mac OS X and Windows. That covers how much market?
Compatibility with many devices? Nope. Only one: the iPod 5G.
Here's an idea. Lets build a time machine and go back and build in video functionality in the old iPods.
Well at least I can create a DVD, like iTunes lets me burn a CD with my purchased songs, right? Nope. No burning. Only playback.
Hrm. Let's see. Can you play a DVD on your iPod? No?
Well at least the new episodes of Law & Order, which are filmed in HDTV, will be shown in brilliant 1280x720 resolution, right? Nope. 320x240.
Again, you're talking about a service for the video iPod. The resolution it can display is only so high.
Good for you, Apple. Welcome to the 19th century. I'll be over here with my trusty BitTorrent client.
19th century? Wow. I guess you're trying to make your point. Yet Apple is the first company to offer something like this.
As for BitTorrent, grow up. Do you seriously expect that everyone would work for free to create these shows?
Imagine if half the audience for Lost suddenly started watching the shows only on BitTorrent. The advertisement rates for the slot would drop, creating less cash for the network and the show, probably causing the network to pull the show because it's not creating enough revenue.
That is one of the reasons I shell out $40 for the seasons worth of Battlestar Galactica. I know I can get a reasonable quality copy off BitTorrent, probably even the very same DVD images. However I'd like to see more of the show. Thus I pay some money so the actors and the crew and the network can earn some money and be encouraged to create another season.
What is the most common controlling variable name in a for loop?
Actually, having been in the military and having IQ over the police "cap" I can tell you that the REASON for having someone in the army to follow orders is because most of the time the soldier does not have the complete view of the situation. You depend on the CO to have that information and make decisions accordingly (because there is often no time to do more than that). That said, soldiers of today are more independent than ever seeing how they have to deal with local populace without immediate contact with the CO.
Regarding the police, the IQ cap is there merely to prevent people getting bored with their jobs, because it takes a special kind of intelligent person able to deal with sitting around most of the day and filing paperwork. Most of police work is BORING.
From TransMedia (Glide creator) Terms and Conditions:
Materials provided to TransMedia or Posted at any TransMedia Web Site
TransMedia does not claim ownership of the materials you provide to TransMedia (including feedback and suggestions) or post, upload, input or submit to any Services or its associated services for review by the general public, or by the members of any public or private community, (each a "Submission" and collectively "Submissions"). However, by posting, uploading, inputting, providing or submitting ("Posting") your Submission you are granting TransMedia, its affiliated companies and necessary sublicensees permission to use your Submission in connection with the operation of their Internet businesses (including, without limitation, all TransMedia Services), including, without limitation, the license rights to: copy, distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, reproduce, edit, translate and reformat your Submission; to publish your name in connection with your Submission; and the right to sublicense such rights to any supplier of the Services....
What this basically means is that you're giving them management rights to whatever you're posting on their service. So if you're a starving artist and you store your next hit song on their service, they have the right to copy, distribute, transmit etc. that song, or just sublicense it to someone else.
This is wrong. They are basically asking for you to give up all the rights without any compensation for it just by using the service. I definitively won't be using this service.
And you know this because...? How in the world can you make a claim like this?
That would be great if the system to get new software installed actually worked. Right now I can't install anything on my machine and I had to fight with the help desk in order to run Tomcat on my machine for local development. I can't even open the system calendar.
There is no way for me to get updates, but more importantly I can't try out new tools. There is downtime during work and I'd rather spend it figuring out a new tool than hitting refresh on Slashdot every 10 mins.