i'm not sure what exactly for, but france and italy (and probably other european countries) basically shut down for the second part of august and a ton of people go on vacation. that's my only guess as to what it could mean.
maybe technical jobs over there don't have quite the prestige they do here in america, and therefore the industry doesn't get as bright of people as here in the US. maybe these firms offering cheap engineering resources aren't very selective in who they hire, since they are only looking to cut costs. whatever the reason for the discrepancy in quality of work, i'd like to think there's something more to it than just that americans are better engineers across the board. i know plenty of good engineers who immigrated from overseas and weren't "immersed in technology" their whole lives.
I suspect that if they embedded a nice legal disclaimer in the infecting email (i.e. "by opening this attachment you agree to let spaminc use your computer to distribute spam") it would probably stand up in court. sounds very similar to the current justification they use of people "opting in" to receive spam, or the tricks that pop-up authors use to make people click on them (i.e. popups disguised as system windows, etc).
The best analogy I can think of off the top of my head is drugs.
well, if the RIAA's war on piracy is as effective as the United States' war on drugs, then there's nothing to worry about. filesharing will be around for a long time.
that case is absolutely ridiculous to me. first of all, the stones song really doesn't sound anything like the verve song. yes, the riff is the same, but the stone's version is played on guitar and at a faster tempo. the other reason is: the verve licensed the sample from the stones beforehand. it was only after the song became a hit that they got sued.
i got the last bit of here. could be bullshit. i don't know.
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basically what they're proposing to do is use DNS to map phone numbers to ip addresses. if your voip phone is assigned a phone number of 5125551212, you would send a dns query with an address of 5.1.2.5.5.5.1.2.1.2.e164.arpa in order to get the ip address assigned to that number. as far as i know this hasn't been implemented yet, but it's a pretty cool hack nonetheless.
When these college kids graduate, go onto careers of their own they will be in the position to BUY music rather then spend time searching and downloading it off the current hot p2p app.
i don't know how true that is. i was in college when napster was big, and graduated right about the time it went bust. just because i had some money then didn't mean i went back to buying cds. i think the RIAA has come to realize that once you're a pirate, you're a pirate for good. as long as there's free music out there, no one who is halfway computer literate is going to buy their CDs.
the whole situation is the RIAAs own fault. if they would have stepped up and partenered with napster at the beginning, we'd all be paying our $10 a month napster bill for authorized content from the record companies.
i could be wrong, but i don't think this means you can't block your caller id from showing up on another subscriber's phone. when you block your caller id with *70 or whatever it is, your number is still sent through the phone network all the way to the terminating switch. a flag is sent in the signalling that means "don't show the originating number" (the presentation flag, i believe). so this law wouldn't outlaw *70.
...u can get rates of 2cents/min...at $20 for 500 min its 4c/min...
plus the $.59 connection fee, and the $.79 payphone fee, and the daily $1 maintenance fee. sorry, i write software that runs phone card systems. those things are a fucking ripoff.
yeah, it definitely will lose them users among hard core tech types. but i would venture to say that the majority of people that use kazaa don't even really understand or care about brilliant using their excess computing power. these are the same people that download that "free bonzi buddy" thing.
incidentally, i did read something where brilliant said kazaa users would not be forced to have their computers used in that way. everyone would have the option to turn it off.
large software companies want everyone to believe that C/C++ are completely obselete, to push new users towards their newer technologies. and once you've committed to using those technologies, you'll of course need to buy a copy of ms visual studio or something similar to take full advantage of it. no one makes money if developers use C/C++, vi, gcc, and gdb.
that being said, i don't think C/C++ is always the right way to go. it all comes down to picking the right tool for the job.
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does it piss you off when someone says that geeks have no social skills? how is that any different than stereotyping all MBAs as evil?
i'm not sure what exactly for, but france and italy (and probably other european countries) basically shut down for the second part of august and a ton of people go on vacation. that's my only guess as to what it could mean.
maybe technical jobs over there don't have quite the prestige they do here in america, and therefore the industry doesn't get as bright of people as here in the US. maybe these firms offering cheap engineering resources aren't very selective in who they hire, since they are only looking to cut costs. whatever the reason for the discrepancy in quality of work, i'd like to think there's something more to it than just that americans are better engineers across the board. i know plenty of good engineers who immigrated from overseas and weren't "immersed in technology" their whole lives.
you don't really enjoy making money, do you?
if i'm not mistaken, any ATMs still run OS/2. it may not be a true player, but it's certainly not completely irrelevant.
I suspect that if they embedded a nice legal disclaimer in the infecting email (i.e. "by opening this attachment you agree to let spaminc use your computer to distribute spam") it would probably stand up in court. sounds very similar to the current justification they use of people "opting in" to receive spam, or the tricks that pop-up authors use to make people click on them (i.e. popups disguised as system windows, etc).
The best analogy I can think of off the top of my head is drugs.
well, if the RIAA's war on piracy is as effective as the United States' war on drugs, then there's nothing to worry about. filesharing will be around for a long time.
he founded nullsoft, which was sold to AOL for $80 million. he probably didn't get all of that, but he got a good chunk. i think he'll be alright.
that case is absolutely ridiculous to me. first of all, the stones song really doesn't sound anything like the verve song. yes, the riff is the same, but the stone's version is played on guitar and at a faster tempo. the other reason is: the verve licensed the sample from the stones beforehand. it was only after the song became a hit that they got sued.
i got the last bit of here. could be bullshit. i don't know.
there's an RFC dealing with that exact problem.
basically what they're proposing to do is use DNS to map phone numbers to ip addresses. if your voip phone is assigned a phone number of 5125551212, you would send a dns query with an address of 5.1.2.5.5.5.1.2.1.2.e164.arpa in order to get the ip address assigned to that number. as far as i know this hasn't been implemented yet, but it's a pretty cool hack nonetheless.
When these college kids graduate, go onto careers of their own they will be in the position to BUY music rather then spend time searching and downloading it off the current hot p2p app. i don't know how true that is. i was in college when napster was big, and graduated right about the time it went bust. just because i had some money then didn't mean i went back to buying cds. i think the RIAA has come to realize that once you're a pirate, you're a pirate for good. as long as there's free music out there, no one who is halfway computer literate is going to buy their CDs. the whole situation is the RIAAs own fault. if they would have stepped up and partenered with napster at the beginning, we'd all be paying our $10 a month napster bill for authorized content from the record companies.
i could be wrong, but i don't think this means you can't block your caller id from showing up on another subscriber's phone. when you block your caller id with *70 or whatever it is, your number is still sent through the phone network all the way to the terminating switch. a flag is sent in the signalling that means "don't show the originating number" (the presentation flag, i believe). so this law wouldn't outlaw *70.
any other telecom geeks out there? am i wrong?
does anyone else think this reaks of a hoax?
and did anyone else see the interview with the lead scientist on cnn this morning?
she looks like the bride of frankenstein.
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...u can get rates of 2cents/min...at $20 for 500 min its 4c/min...
plus the $.59 connection fee, and the $.79 payphone fee, and the daily $1 maintenance fee. sorry, i write software that runs phone card systems. those things are a fucking ripoff.
...the mind set of computer users...
yeah, it definitely will lose them users among hard core tech types. but i would venture to say that the majority of people that use kazaa don't even really understand or care about brilliant using their excess computing power. these are the same people that download that "free bonzi buddy" thing.
incidentally, i did read something where brilliant said kazaa users would not be forced to have their computers used in that way. everyone would have the option to turn it off.
large software companies want everyone to believe that C/C++ are completely obselete, to push new users towards their newer technologies. and once you've committed to using those technologies, you'll of course need to buy a copy of ms visual studio or something similar to take full advantage of it. no one makes money if developers use C/C++, vi, gcc, and gdb.
that being said, i don't think C/C++ is always the right way to go. it all comes down to picking the right tool for the job.
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hate to break it to you, but family guy's gone too. (see rest of thread for details)
thanks for the family guy link. good to see somebody else appreciates that show, what with all the abuse it's getting on this thread.
come on. you really can't argue that the simpson is even half as good as it used to be. they never should have let conan o'brien leave...
wait, they fucking cancelled family guy? that's funniest fucking show in the world! there is no god.