Taht's well and good (though sadly incomplete) for Mideast nations, but what of places like, say...
* mostly Hindu India * mostly Catholic Philippines, ]South America , Ireland, etc. * mostly Atheist/Confucian/Buddhist China * mostly Animistic or mixed-religion nations throughout Africa * mostly Protestant UK,...and etc ?
May want to skip the whole prayer thing altogether once you start considering that many movements (esp. those of the left-leaning ideological persuasion ) are pretty much religion-free.
It isn't a question of whether Oracle has the evidence, but whether or not Oracle would get the money they originally demanded.
Oracle's original win from SAP of $1.3 billion got knocked down to a (relatively) tiny $195 million.
By those proportions, Google could lose the case, but still likely end up paying less than what Oracle normally would charge for licensing fees.
I'm guessing that news alone is/was enough to get Ellison to shut up and pay attention, and probably even got him to consider sitting down with Google at a table to try and work things out in advance. Of course, Google now has a pretty good advantage as well, in that they may decide to let the trial go on anyway if the negotiation pricetag doesn't suit them.
Time to start intentionally P2P'ing movies and music at every Starbucks, Airport, McDonalds, Bookstore, and damned near every other business you can think of (with preference towards national chains, of course).
Let's see 'em try to shut one of those sites down...
Or, if they did the offending P2P at a coffee shop, or other business.
Yes, I know - I'm fairly sure that most of those establishments would vigorously fight back against an **AA lawyer trying to shut down every computer in the establishment for a fishing expedition, nor would the **AA want to even try in most cases (esp. if we're talking about a national chain that may have a bigger/better legal department). So, if corporations should be allowed to avoid having all the computers on their site ripped into/confiscated/whatever, then why do individuals have to put up with it?
That's because nearly all of Apple's lawsuits center around hardware patents, or physical design patents. In fact, I don't think they have sued anyone over software patents yet.
Kind of hard to use them as a poster boy for Software patent reform when they don't go near it but rarely, if ever.
The downside of this is, that it's almost like we're forced to cheerlead patent trolls.... hard. The pure patent trolls after all have nothing to counter-sue over.
Kinda sucks - it's like I'm stuck with hoping and praying that the entire Marshall, TX business directory pounds on the big boys often enough and hard enough to get them to finally start thinking that maybe this whole patent mess could use a little cleaning up....and this is in spite of the fact that I believe patent troll lawyers should replace animals in medical and commercial chemical testing programs.
You know? There are days when I look at the whole software industry and just hate it thoroughly.:/
Zynga Tons of local restaurants and businesses Most news outlets (under the guise of daily newsletters... but notice the adverts in them thar emails) Store loyalty card programs (where you enter your email addy) etc...
If you look carefully, you'd be amazed at how many times a typical user opts in for spam.
Good luck with that... we're talking (potentially) thousands of informants globally, many of whom are not in a position (for various but legitimate reasons) to simply pack their families up and go.
If you've ever tried any sort of large logistics operation on short notice, you'd discover pretty quickly just how tough it is to get anything done on a large scale. It would take a month or so at best, and multiple months at worst. Now, try moving a global-wide network of different people, most of whom you may or may not have contact with on a regular (let alone frequent) basis. A huge percentage of these informants have no access to the Internet in order to even check on their own (see also North Korea, Pakistan, etc) Long story short, it would be frickin' impossible on short notice.
Sorry, but the fault lies with the leaker for treason, The Guardian for incompetence, with Wikileaks for being narcissistic idiots and broadcasting the potential hit list in plain daylight, and with all the idealistic useful idiots who, without thinking it through, wholeheartedly and unreservedly supported them.
Nah... a few folks will have a good reason to be worried, but otherwise the world at large won't see the effects for a long time, if ever.
Now Wikileaks OTOH, is about to be labeled a terrorist organization and removed from the face of the Earth by any means necessary - legal or not legal. They had a shot at being left to remain in existence when they had some sort of underdog nobility to play on, but now? I suspect someone at the CIA, Interpol, and various other places around the globe are quietly whispering the same thing 'Oh, it's *on* now, bitches...'
(rightly or wrongly, I suspect that's how it's going to be played out).
If you work for a large bank, FI, or any financial house, you pretty much have a job for life as a COBOL programmer on mainframes. Anywhere else gets less and less certain, almost on a gradient.
Funny thing is, it's entirely different on the Sysadmin side of IT. I'm 42, and get chased pretty often by headhunters. This year, I was able to job-shop, averaging two new contacts/interviews a week - in spite of only spending an couple hours on Monster initially (and nothing since). One reason is because I live in a good area for tech (PDX), and the other is that one thing the younger folk don't have: experience.
I still presented a lot of energy and enthusiasm (toward the technology) at interviews as well, which makes a huge difference, and tends to erase any thought of age as a factor.
Maybe it's that the older sysadmins are desired, while older programmers are not?
$150k clearly goes a lot farther in your fantasy world than in reality.
Depends on where you live:
In SanFran or NTC? $150k will get you by, but not by too much. You could rent a somewhat comfy apartment with it and not have to drive too far to work,
Up here in Portland (OR), $150k is very comfy... not quite a king's ransom, but enough to get a decent 3-bdrm house in the 'burbs. Here, you can do pretty well on $80k/year.
Back where I'm from (Northwest Arkansas/Ozarks), $150k/year can get you a nice big house with acreage, all paid off on a 5-year note. You could then retire in 10 years on that income. Out there, you can live rather cozy on $40k/year.
In some parts of Mississippi, West Virginia, and Alabama? $150k/yr income can let you live like a near-deity. Out there, folks get by rather cozily on $25-30k/yr.
Yes, building up an industrial base anywhere is a difficult proposition, but it can be done in tiny steps and we don't necessarily need these big machines to do all of our work
...and adds to the time, cost, and overall work required. Therein lies the whole point.
If I can send up solar panels and/or a smaller reactor initially, I'd get a lot further than the proposition of having to simply build it all from scratch.
Given the general agreement in this wee thread, I suspect you're quite alone, and therefore should just be dismissed as a mere ankle-biting troll. However, I'll give you a small taste of what you desire, since you're apparently either a fan of using Bing, or are completely incapable of using Google:
I thought that was pretty cute too. It was as if they had a boat out in the thick of it or something measuring the thing live, what with the way it was animated to drift in fits and starts between 90mph and 110mph or so.
Then they goofed up: They had some schmuck standing on the coast of North Carolina saying that it was just about to get the worst of it all... I almost expected the poor slob to suddenly get blown away, or one of those effects out of the 1995 movie Twister (you know, flying cows and shit).
Turned out that the winds barely kept up with the average winter storm on the Oregon Coast, at least according to their 'on location' wind speed reports that scrolled along. Stood in pretty sharp contrast to the "wind speed" of the whole storm. Kind of a let-down, really.
The funniest part was the chick standing near Battery Park, looking down at a 6' wide puddle near one of the storm drains, and using language that made it seem that the whole borough was under "1 inch of water so far"... in spite of plainly visible evidence showing otherwise.
I mean, hell... I know the storm did some damage, but they had the hype machine going like the storm was Katrina on methamphetamines...
You could get plenty of ore, but I doubt you'd be able to do much with it until you cough up a few industrial-sized gas centrifuges, among other, bulkier equipments. I empathize with where you you're going logically, but there's a few really big roadblocks to getting there.
I'm pretty sure that if such a pattern (or even habit) arose and word got out about it, you'd have a line of lawyers 10 miles long waiting at your door to help you sue any PD or agency was stupid enough to try.
Sure, they can pull it off for a short period of time, once, and there'd better be a warrant involved (we're talking computers here, not weed - you can't smell illegal computer activity from the front door). More than once (twice at most), and it becomes a pattern of harassment that can be litigated against. Police departments and agencies do have budgets to protect, after all.
That's easy - in case someone else actually does make it into something useful and long-lived. Nobody wanted that generic photo of Obama as candidate until some guy ran it through a photoshop filter, slathering it in red and blue colors... all the sudden it became a hot property. The original photographer, now seeing that there's a chance to make some dosh off of his work, immediately launched a lawsuit.
That said, I think you're conflating creative products (movies, songs, books, etc) with physical products, which generally do not have a copyright. OTOH, they have patents, which, as we've seen lately, can be damned profitable in themselves, even if the original product that used them never really went anywhere.
That would be cool as hell, but damn... you'd better be single.
I say this because when you're single, long road trips are liberating, exciting, and just plain damned fun. Marriage and kids turn that idea into a grueling endurance run, complete with large numbers of restroom, tourist-trap, and restaurant stops.
Then again, Siberia would be an excellent place to hide a body, no?
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Point of order: Northern Ireland is officially considered to be part of the UK, no?
Taht's well and good (though sadly incomplete) for Mideast nations, but what of places like, say...
* mostly Hindu India ...and etc ?
* mostly Catholic Philippines, ]South America , Ireland, etc.
* mostly Atheist/Confucian/Buddhist China
* mostly Animistic or mixed-religion nations throughout Africa
* mostly Protestant UK,
May want to skip the whole prayer thing altogether once you start considering that many movements (esp. those of the left-leaning ideological persuasion ) are pretty much religion-free.
Props on the Foundation reference in TFS, though.
It isn't a question of whether Oracle has the evidence, but whether or not Oracle would get the money they originally demanded.
Oracle's original win from SAP of $1.3 billion got knocked down to a (relatively) tiny $195 million.
By those proportions, Google could lose the case, but still likely end up paying less than what Oracle normally would charge for licensing fees.
I'm guessing that news alone is/was enough to get Ellison to shut up and pay attention, and probably even got him to consider sitting down with Google at a table to try and work things out in advance. Of course, Google now has a pretty good advantage as well, in that they may decide to let the trial go on anyway if the negotiation pricetag doesn't suit them.
Time to start intentionally P2P'ing movies and music at every Starbucks, Airport, McDonalds, Bookstore, and damned near every other business you can think of (with preference towards national chains, of course).
Let's see 'em try to shut one of those sites down...
Or, if they did the offending P2P at a coffee shop, or other business.
Yes, I know - I'm fairly sure that most of those establishments would vigorously fight back against an **AA lawyer trying to shut down every computer in the establishment for a fishing expedition, nor would the **AA want to even try in most cases (esp. if we're talking about a national chain that may have a bigger/better legal department). So, if corporations should be allowed to avoid having all the computers on their site ripped into/confiscated/whatever, then why do individuals have to put up with it?
I rarely mod up ACs, but damnit, if I had the points, parent post would get one.
Unless you're a gynecologist, and/or the act is consensual, that kind of behavior should damned sure be considered to be rape.
If they were that damned worries about a woman stuffing something up in there, they have enough x-ray machinery to determine for certain.
That's because nearly all of Apple's lawsuits center around hardware patents, or physical design patents. In fact, I don't think they have sued anyone over software patents yet.
Kind of hard to use them as a poster boy for Software patent reform when they don't go near it but rarely, if ever.
The downside of this is, that it's almost like we're forced to cheerlead patent trolls.... hard. The pure patent trolls after all have nothing to counter-sue over.
Kinda sucks - it's like I'm stuck with hoping and praying that the entire Marshall, TX business directory pounds on the big boys often enough and hard enough to get them to finally start thinking that maybe this whole patent mess could use a little cleaning up. ...and this is in spite of the fact that I believe patent troll lawyers should replace animals in medical and commercial chemical testing programs.
You know? There are days when I look at the whole software industry and just hate it thoroughly. :/
Well, in addition to GroupOn, you have...
Zynga
Tons of local restaurants and businesses
Most news outlets (under the guise of daily newsletters... but notice the adverts in them thar emails)
Store loyalty card programs (where you enter your email addy)
etc...
If you look carefully, you'd be amazed at how many times a typical user opts in for spam.
I can definitely agree to this. I can go further and point to an existing example: Cryptome, which has been around since 1997 or so.
all it would take is for it to be expanded a little bit.
Good luck with that... we're talking (potentially) thousands of informants globally, many of whom are not in a position (for various but legitimate reasons) to simply pack their families up and go.
If you've ever tried any sort of large logistics operation on short notice, you'd discover pretty quickly just how tough it is to get anything done on a large scale. It would take a month or so at best, and multiple months at worst. Now, try moving a global-wide network of different people, most of whom you may or may not have contact with on a regular (let alone frequent) basis. A huge percentage of these informants have no access to the Internet in order to even check on their own (see also North Korea, Pakistan, etc) Long story short, it would be frickin' impossible on short notice.
Sorry, but the fault lies with the leaker for treason, The Guardian for incompetence, with Wikileaks for being narcissistic idiots and broadcasting the potential hit list in plain daylight, and with all the idealistic useful idiots who, without thinking it through, wholeheartedly and unreservedly supported them.
Nah... a few folks will have a good reason to be worried, but otherwise the world at large won't see the effects for a long time, if ever.
Now Wikileaks OTOH, is about to be labeled a terrorist organization and removed from the face of the Earth by any means necessary - legal or not legal. They had a shot at being left to remain in existence when they had some sort of underdog nobility to play on, but now? I suspect someone at the CIA, Interpol, and various other places around the globe are quietly whispering the same thing 'Oh, it's *on* now, bitches...'
(rightly or wrongly, I suspect that's how it's going to be played out).
That depends a lot on the industry.
If you work for a large bank, FI, or any financial house, you pretty much have a job for life as a COBOL programmer on mainframes. Anywhere else gets less and less certain, almost on a gradient.
Funny thing is, it's entirely different on the Sysadmin side of IT. I'm 42, and get chased pretty often by headhunters. This year, I was able to job-shop, averaging two new contacts/interviews a week - in spite of only spending an couple hours on Monster initially (and nothing since). One reason is because I live in a good area for tech (PDX), and the other is that one thing the younger folk don't have: experience.
I still presented a lot of energy and enthusiasm (toward the technology) at interviews as well, which makes a huge difference, and tends to erase any thought of age as a factor.
Maybe it's that the older sysadmins are desired, while older programmers are not?
$150k clearly goes a lot farther in your fantasy world than in reality.
Depends on where you live:
In SanFran or NTC? $150k will get you by, but not by too much. You could rent a somewhat comfy apartment with it and not have to drive too far to work,
Up here in Portland (OR), $150k is very comfy... not quite a king's ransom, but enough to get a decent 3-bdrm house in the 'burbs. Here, you can do pretty well on $80k/year.
Back where I'm from (Northwest Arkansas/Ozarks), $150k/year can get you a nice big house with acreage, all paid off on a 5-year note. You could then retire in 10 years on that income. Out there, you can live rather cozy on $40k/year.
In some parts of Mississippi, West Virginia, and Alabama? $150k/yr income can let you live like a near-deity. Out there, folks get by rather cozily on $25-30k/yr.
I'm just surprised that there was enough of a horse's corpse left to beat up this time.
Cripes - even McBride is pretty much toast these days.
Yes, building up an industrial base anywhere is a difficult proposition, but it can be done in tiny steps and we don't necessarily need these big machines to do all of our work
...and adds to the time, cost, and overall work required. Therein lies the whole point.
If I can send up solar panels and/or a smaller reactor initially, I'd get a lot further than the proposition of having to simply build it all from scratch.
Wolf Blitzer, is that you?
Given the general agreement in this wee thread, I suspect you're quite alone, and therefore should just be dismissed as a mere ankle-biting troll. However, I'll give you a small taste of what you desire, since you're apparently either a fan of using Bing, or are completely incapable of using Google:
http://www.fema.gov/news/event.fema?id=13672
They're rather typical for the region, and no, there was no massive CNN media hype blitz for that one - which was my entire fucking point, dear child.
Now kindly go back under your bridge and STFU.
I thought that was pretty cute too. It was as if they had a boat out in the thick of it or something measuring the thing live, what with the way it was animated to drift in fits and starts between 90mph and 110mph or so.
Then they goofed up: They had some schmuck standing on the coast of North Carolina saying that it was just about to get the worst of it all... I almost expected the poor slob to suddenly get blown away, or one of those effects out of the 1995 movie Twister (you know, flying cows and shit).
Turned out that the winds barely kept up with the average winter storm on the Oregon Coast, at least according to their 'on location' wind speed reports that scrolled along. Stood in pretty sharp contrast to the "wind speed" of the whole storm. Kind of a let-down, really.
The funniest part was the chick standing near Battery Park, looking down at a 6' wide puddle near one of the storm drains, and using language that made it seem that the whole borough was under "1 inch of water so far"... in spite of plainly visible evidence showing otherwise.
I mean, hell... I know the storm did some damage, but they had the hype machine going like the storm was Katrina on methamphetamines...
You could get plenty of ore, but I doubt you'd be able to do much with it until you cough up a few industrial-sized gas centrifuges, among other, bulkier equipments. I empathize with where you you're going logically, but there's a few really big roadblocks to getting there.
If you can find a colony of microbes that thrive in a hard vacuum without liquid water, you've got bigger problems to worry about than Greenpeace.
Who said you had to be American?
http://www.france24.com/en/20110316-2011-03-16-1140-wb-en-webnews
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13188507
http://www.inforse.dk/europe/nuclear.htm
You do know that looking down one's nose like that will severely restrict your vision, right?
I'm pretty sure that if such a pattern (or even habit) arose and word got out about it, you'd have a line of lawyers 10 miles long waiting at your door to help you sue any PD or agency was stupid enough to try.
Sure, they can pull it off for a short period of time, once, and there'd better be a warrant involved (we're talking computers here, not weed - you can't smell illegal computer activity from the front door). More than once (twice at most), and it becomes a pattern of harassment that can be litigated against. Police departments and agencies do have budgets to protect, after all.
You can of course prove it so, instead of merely trolling?
That's easy - in case someone else actually does make it into something useful and long-lived. Nobody wanted that generic photo of Obama as candidate until some guy ran it through a photoshop filter, slathering it in red and blue colors... all the sudden it became a hot property. The original photographer, now seeing that there's a chance to make some dosh off of his work, immediately launched a lawsuit.
That said, I think you're conflating creative products (movies, songs, books, etc) with physical products, which generally do not have a copyright. OTOH, they have patents, which, as we've seen lately, can be damned profitable in themselves, even if the original product that used them never really went anywhere.
That would be cool as hell, but damn... you'd better be single.
I say this because when you're single, long road trips are liberating, exciting, and just plain damned fun. Marriage and kids turn that idea into a grueling endurance run, complete with large numbers of restroom, tourist-trap, and restaurant stops.
Then again, Siberia would be an excellent place to hide a body, no?