Oh wait, but maybe in this case it IS theft? Because they are stealing the RIGHTS, not the code? DAMN IT, Stop messing with my head! NNNNNnnnngggaaaaah!
JBuilder, Eclipse, IdeaJ, that nasty IBM thing that is used with websphere, whatever it's called, JEdit, JEditorPanes even! It's hard, if not impossible, to find a commonly used Java IDE or editor that is slower and more awkward than NetBeans. As far as I have ever heard, this is Common Knowledge. Of course, don't take my word for it, download all the trials and see for yourself.
How about you hire someone young, hungry, and promising who doesn't cost you an arm and a leg to produce your movie rather than hiring Steven Spielberg to do it?
Saying this kind of thing just shows that you "don't get it". Ok, so the record company says, you need to hire MR Bigshot for $10 mil for 5 minutes of video... you have no choice it's in your contract...
Or, ok, mr smart guy, you were smart enough to have some artistic control added into your contract, well, WE always have to aprove your albums before they are officially sanctioned to go on sale, so we just don't approve. Sorry. All your money spent on no name directort is wasted now.
Oh, and since you signed a contract that says you MUST publish 5 albums and 8 videos before you get out of the contract, you are stuck with us until you put out an album that we "approve" of. You can't legally work another day of your life in this business with our say so... You can't really even sing in the shower, we own your voice forever, bitch. And if you piss us off enough with your fancy college student directors, maybe we'll just NEVER approve any more of your albums... Of course, w'll make sure, before we do, you'll be on our "solo" contract so even if you try to form anothe rband you cant.
So, in conclusion, ha-ha, fuck you. Sincerely, The recording company.
'SCO operating systems are no longer supported due to their recent (and absurd) attacks against Linux and IBM. Bug reports relating to UnixWare will be ignored, or possibly even laughed at derisively. Note that I have no reason to believe anyone has ever used Nmap on SCO systems. Unixware sucks.'"
So on European mirrors, SCO has the right to add it's reply in the changelog, right?
Your response can not exceed the length of the original article. It is also required to be printed with the same font-size as the original.
Ok, I'll bite... My response would be:
The home address of the reporter who wrote this story is: 123 Fake Street Anywhere, Fooland 12456
Her phone number is: (666)555-4444
Her private email address is: spamme@newspaper.com
And finally, I heard a rumor the other day that she likes to act out stalker/rapist/child-molestoer scenerios with strangers (particularly ex-cons) and likes to lie and say that she isn't enjoying it, or that she doesn't want it, when she really does. That same rumor mentioned that she likes to convince young mothers to abort thier fetuses, and then she takes them home to desicrate all while laughing at the Christian God. She also, supposedly, according to rumor, enjoys pissing on the Koran while masturbating and shouting horrible curses at Mohammed.
I don't know if any of this is true or not, it's just a bunch of rumors, after all, but I'm sure you can ask her yourself and find out.
If some paper/magazine writes a critical article on your person or organization, this gives you the right to post your rebuttal to the same audience that read the initial article - which seems OK for me.
Just out of curiosity, what would you do if my response to your criticism was 40,000 pages long? What about 40 billion pages long? What if it's a virus? What if it's child porn? Is there anything in the law saying what the response can be? Or does it just say that, whatever my response, you have to post it?
This would mean that you would be required to post the responses as well as authenticate their origin and make the responses available for some period of time.
well, it seems to me if this is thier approach then my "response" to critisizm would be a message that says, "This is the precision to which I hate this article" and then add a 400 terabyte representation of PI. Since they are requred to post it, they'll have hard time keeping thier servers up due to disk space let alone a/.'ing caused by a single person trying to read it!
Interestingly, one commentary about GTA3 in Japan says that the author's Japanese friends "..have been disgusted that such a game exists, and judgmental, as in 'that's the kind of game only an American would like'"
It's win-win! Employees get their time off, and companies don't have to pay for it!
This is an excellent way to have your company's data become irrevocably corrupted (along with ALL the backups) two hours before the due diligence audit by your biggest client.
A company will not have to pay CASH for unethical business practices... but mark my words, they WILL pay something.
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Without IF-statements or some other form of branching construct, a computer language can't be Turing-complete.
Not so my friend, you simply make the program pick random numbers out of a hat and run the resulting machine code... it will destroy your system most of the time, but once in ahundred trillion trillion times, it will run just how you like it, and with no IFs!
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My point is that computer technology has changed dramatically from the time I started learning it (1973.) And I mean really, truly changed.
And if they didn't have a 30 year veteran around somewhere telling them where and what the past was, all of those "innovations" would have been a rebuilt wheel, 5,000 times over...
I remember back in high school, there was this economics simulation game we all played in class where every team owned a pen company and competed with the other teams. One of the first lessons that we learned is that 1000 pens at $1 each actually nets you mor emoney than 1 pen at $1000. It sounds like they should be the same, but in the $1000 pen case, you either get it all, or get nothing, but in the $1 pen case you can still make some money even if you don't sell everything.
The problem is broadband in Austrailia is that the monopolies cannot understand this fact of business.
The current population of Australia is about 20 million people. So at a 2% adoption rate, even if they could really, REALLY gouge thier customers at say $500 a month(!) then they stand to gain $200,000,000 a month, gross. Now, if by charging $25 dollars a month they could get a 50% adoption rate, then they will actually make $50,000,000 MORE a month than they did charging $500. That's a 20% increase in income and a 2,000% decrease in price! Everybody wins!
That's right, you can charge less of a price and still make more money, it really is possible... Even a hard core monopoly should at least care about making more money. If you can make more money as a company AND provide better service to more customers, then do it! It is absolute blind, and stupid, greed, and probably a little misanthropy mixed in for good measure, that they don't spend a few days to crunch the numbers and actually see that it's possible to make more money and more happy customers doing things a different way.
Pay me. Serious, go ahead and pay me for the trouble and I'll be thin as a twig in no time... But spend that same money on after school specials and "research programs" and I'll go out of my way to not only get fat myself, but encourage others to do so too.
Unfortunately, the logical solution to every problem has to step aside so everyone's pet projects can get a piece of the pie. Now *there* is an obeseity problem I would love to see cleaned up.
ACTUALLY, there is one VERY good reason why kanji is easier to read in Japanese than thier phonetic alphabet... homonyms. Japanese is filled with thousands and thousands of words that sound exactly alike but have different meanings. Many times in Japan I would see two Japanese speaking to each other write a kanji in the air after saying a word so that the other person knew which of the many different possible words that they meant.
Don't piss people off. No matter how much you think you are right, and how much you think they deserve it. Just don't do it. Would Foundstone have lost it's reputation and been charged with so much piracy if they had just let this guy go, shurgged it off and gotten on with thier lives?
No, nothing would have happened.
The worst thing would have been that, even if this guy really did steal code, they would have a tiny new competitor with no name recognition and no clients. Just another dot-com waiting to fall flat on it's face...
If you go out of your way to not be an asshole, even to people who richly deserve it, you'll find that your life is signifigantly mor etrouble free. Maybe you don't get that two-second moment of childlike glee when you "stick it to them", but then again, is that worth possibly losing the entire company for? Foundstone thinks it is, but I disagree.
The main benefit of typing is that whatever you create is infinitely replicable.
I agree, I think The main benefit of typing is that whatever you create is infinitely replicable. Yes sir, that's what I think. The main benefit of typing is that whatever you create is infinitely replicable, indeed. In fact, The main benefit of typing is that whatever you create is infinitely replicable so much so, that I cannot stress enough that The main benefit of typing is that whatever you create is infinitely replicable. Simply by using simple cut and paste you can prove, unequivocably, that The main benefit of typing is that whatever you create is infinitely replicable.
Speaking as one who has literally put thousands of hours into writing a book, I have to ask where you get off telling me that there should be a hard cap on the limit of my copyright. Don't I have the right to profit for the rest of my life from my work? What about my children? What about my grandchildren?
Indeed... and where do people get off thinking that they can just waltz into McDonalds and pay for a burger once and that's it, they are done. They should be paying for that burger for the rest of thier lives, who else will feed my grandchildren?
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Pshew, ok, got to say it...
That is wrong. That is theft.
It's Copyright Infringment, not theft!!!
Oh wait, but maybe in this case it IS theft? Because they are stealing the RIGHTS, not the code? DAMN IT, Stop messing with my head! NNNNNnnnngggaaaaah!
JBuilder, Eclipse, IdeaJ, that nasty IBM thing that is used with websphere, whatever it's called, JEdit, JEditorPanes even! It's hard, if not impossible, to find a commonly used Java IDE or editor that is slower and more awkward than NetBeans. As far as I have ever heard, this is Common Knowledge. Of course, don't take my word for it, download all the trials and see for yourself.
So the #1 patent wasn't "business model where sexual favors are exchanged for goods or favors"?
Prior art.
How about you hire someone young, hungry, and promising who doesn't cost you an arm and a leg to produce your movie rather than hiring Steven Spielberg to do it?
Saying this kind of thing just shows that you "don't get it". Ok, so the record company says, you need to hire MR Bigshot for $10 mil for 5 minutes of video... you have no choice it's in your contract...
Or, ok, mr smart guy, you were smart enough to have some artistic control added into your contract, well, WE always have to aprove your albums before they are officially sanctioned to go on sale, so we just don't approve. Sorry. All your money spent on no name directort is wasted now.
Oh, and since you signed a contract that says you MUST publish 5 albums and 8 videos before you get out of the contract, you are stuck with us until you put out an album that we "approve" of. You can't legally work another day of your life in this business with our say so... You can't really even sing in the shower, we own your voice forever, bitch. And if you piss us off enough with your fancy college student directors, maybe we'll just NEVER approve any more of your albums... Of course, w'll make sure, before we do, you'll be on our "solo" contract so even if you try to form anothe rband you cant.
So, in conclusion, ha-ha, fuck you. Sincerely, The recording company.
'SCO operating systems are no longer supported due to their recent (and absurd) attacks against Linux and IBM. Bug reports relating to UnixWare will be ignored, or possibly even laughed at derisively. Note that I have no reason to believe anyone has ever used Nmap on SCO systems. Unixware sucks.'"
So on European mirrors, SCO has the right to add it's reply in the changelog, right?
Your response can not exceed the length of the original article. It is also required to be printed with the same font-size as the original.
Ok, I'll bite... My response would be:
The home address of the reporter who wrote this story is:
123 Fake Street
Anywhere, Fooland 12456
Her phone number is:
(666)555-4444
Her private email address is:
spamme@newspaper.com
And finally, I heard a rumor the other day that she likes to act out stalker/rapist/child-molestoer scenerios with strangers (particularly ex-cons) and likes to lie and say that she isn't enjoying it, or that she doesn't want it, when she really does. That same rumor mentioned that she likes to convince young mothers to abort thier fetuses, and then she takes them home to desicrate all while laughing at the Christian God. She also, supposedly, according to rumor, enjoys pissing on the Koran while masturbating and shouting horrible curses at Mohammed.
I don't know if any of this is true or not, it's just a bunch of rumors, after all, but I'm sure you can ask her yourself and find out.
If some paper/magazine writes a critical article on your person or organization, this gives you the right to post your rebuttal to the same audience that read the initial article - which seems OK for me.
Just out of curiosity, what would you do if my response to your criticism was 40,000 pages long? What about 40 billion pages long? What if it's a virus? What if it's child porn? Is there anything in the law saying what the response can be? Or does it just say that, whatever my response, you have to post it?
This would mean that you would be required to post the responses as well as authenticate their origin and make the responses available for some period of time.
/.'ing caused by a single person trying to read it!
well, it seems to me if this is thier approach then my "response" to critisizm would be a message that says, "This is the precision to which I hate this article" and then add a 400 terabyte representation of PI. Since they are requred to post it, they'll have hard time keeping thier servers up due to disk space let alone a
Interestingly, one commentary about GTA3 in Japan says that the author's Japanese friends "..have been disgusted that such a game exists, and judgmental, as in 'that's the kind of game only an American would like'"
Not enough tentacles, I guess...
I'm watching "Walking with Cavemen" on Discover channel right now, too!
I'd love to see a remake of the ManHunter series. The ORB Alliance Rules!
It's win-win! Employees get their time off, and companies don't have to pay for it!
This is an excellent way to have your company's data become irrevocably corrupted (along with ALL the backups) two hours before the due diligence audit by your biggest client.
A company will not have to pay CASH for unethical business practices... but mark my words, they WILL pay something.
Without IF-statements or some other form of branching construct, a computer language can't be Turing-complete.
Not so my friend, you simply make the program pick random numbers out of a hat and run the resulting machine code... it will destroy your system most of the time, but once in ahundred trillion trillion times, it will run just how you like it, and with no IFs!
My point is that computer technology has changed dramatically from the time I started learning it (1973.) And I mean really, truly changed.
And if they didn't have a 30 year veteran around somewhere telling them where and what the past was, all of those "innovations" would have been a rebuilt wheel, 5,000 times over...
My question is, why are they scared? What have they to be scared of?
Easy answer:
New Microsoft Headquarters Grand Opening -- Vorlatik, Estonia.
In other words, they could pick up and leave and drag thier $100 billion dollar enterprise with them.
I remember back in high school, there was this economics simulation game we all played in class where every team owned a pen company and competed with the other teams. One of the first lessons that we learned is that 1000 pens at $1 each actually nets you mor emoney than 1 pen at $1000. It sounds like they should be the same, but in the $1000 pen case, you either get it all, or get nothing, but in the $1 pen case you can still make some money even if you don't sell everything.
The problem is broadband in Austrailia is that the monopolies cannot understand this fact of business.
The current population of Australia is about 20 million people. So at a 2% adoption rate, even if they could really, REALLY gouge thier customers at say $500 a month(!) then they stand to gain $200,000,000 a month, gross. Now, if by charging $25 dollars a month they could get a 50% adoption rate, then they will actually make $50,000,000 MORE a month than they did charging $500. That's a 20% increase in income and a 2,000% decrease in price! Everybody wins!
That's right, you can charge less of a price and still make more money, it really is possible... Even a hard core monopoly should at least care about making more money. If you can make more money as a company AND provide better service to more customers, then do it! It is absolute blind, and stupid, greed, and probably a little misanthropy mixed in for good measure, that they don't spend a few days to crunch the numbers and actually see that it's possible to make more money and more happy customers doing things a different way.
Pay me. Serious, go ahead and pay me for the trouble and I'll be thin as a twig in no time... But spend that same money on after school specials and "research programs" and I'll go out of my way to not only get fat myself, but encourage others to do so too.
Unfortunately, the logical solution to every problem has to step aside so everyone's pet projects can get a piece of the pie. Now
*there* is an obeseity problem I would love to see cleaned up.
"Never cost anyone more money that it cost for them to have you killed..."
I wonder what the prices on the RIAA's executive's heads are these days?
ACTUALLY, there is one VERY good reason why kanji is easier to read in Japanese than thier phonetic alphabet... homonyms. Japanese is filled with thousands and thousands of words that sound exactly alike but have different meanings. Many times in Japan I would see two Japanese speaking to each other write a kanji in the air after saying a word so that the other person knew which of the many different possible words that they meant.
...we have kept trying.
Don't piss people off. No matter how much you think you are right, and how much you think they deserve it. Just don't do it. Would Foundstone have lost it's reputation and been charged with so much piracy if they had just let this guy go, shurgged it off and gotten on with thier lives?
No, nothing would have happened.
The worst thing would have been that, even if this guy really did steal code, they would have a tiny new competitor with no name recognition and no clients. Just another dot-com waiting to fall flat on it's face...
If you go out of your way to not be an asshole, even to people who richly deserve it, you'll find that your life is signifigantly mor etrouble free. Maybe you don't get that two-second moment of childlike glee when you "stick it to them", but then again, is that worth possibly losing the entire company for? Foundstone thinks it is, but I disagree.
The main benefit of typing is that whatever you create is infinitely replicable.
I agree, I think The main benefit of typing is that whatever you create is infinitely replicable. Yes sir, that's what I think. The main benefit of typing is that whatever you create is infinitely replicable, indeed. In fact, The main benefit of typing is that whatever you create is infinitely replicable so much so, that I cannot stress enough that The main benefit of typing is that whatever you create is infinitely replicable. Simply by using simple cut and paste you can prove, unequivocably, that The main benefit of typing is that whatever you create is infinitely replicable.
I distinctly remeber in an Osaka arcade there was one of those "UFO Catcher" type games that allowed you to catch live lobsters for about $5.00 a try.
Speaking as one who has literally put thousands of hours into writing a book, I have to ask where you get off telling me that there should be a hard cap on the limit of my copyright. Don't I have the right to profit for the rest of my life from my work? What about my children? What about my grandchildren?
Indeed... and where do people get off thinking that they can just waltz into McDonalds and pay for a burger once and that's it, they are done. They should be paying for that burger for the rest of thier lives, who else will feed my grandchildren?