yeah.. 42 would have been nice... And the odd thing is that I read and posted without an account for a long time... then I finally had something to say and made an account. I don't even remember what was so important.
That's true... but it's also possible that if they had a clause like that in their contracts years ago that all the people they have working for them now wouldn't have agreed to it. At least the poor guy flippin' burgers can know that he hired smart people, rather than people too stupid to read a contract and understand the implications of it.
Anyway, I harbor no ill feelings towards Compaq (HP?) for their refusal to discuss the contract terms. In my ever so humble personal opinion, it's their loss. They're losing people because of their horrible contracts.
I really did want to work there, but the contract they offered was entirely unacceptable to me. I could not turn over every idea I ever had, have, or will have to some company I was about to start working for. I had worked as an intern at Compaq in Houston the year before. But they were unwilling to work out a decent contract. I have no problem with them owning everything that I make for them, but what I make on my own time is mine.
Now I've got a job with 50% higher pay. You can't attract the best of the best with stupid contracts.
I know they were smart, I talked to a bunch of them and was very impressed. Maybe they had a better contract than that one they gave me.
I had a job offer from Compaq to work on the OpenVMS kernel. Sounded like a good deal. I got a chance to fly to Nashua, New Hamshire to check out the facilities and meet the people I would potentially be working with. Let me tell you, these guys were incredibly smart.
Then I got the contract. It had a clause stating that any idea I ever had as well as any ideas I had while I worked for them belonged to them. As well as a non-compete clause. They wouldn't budge on it, so I turned down their offer.
Oh well. I really would have liked a chance to work on their OS, but they weren't interested. Really too bad.
Good idea. Ignore the GPL. Then you don't have any rights to use the source code. Remember, the GPL grants you more rights than you normally have with a peice of copyrighted code. So ignore the GPL and you're back to copyrighted code.
If you don't like Britney Spears, for gods sake, vote with your wallet. Go out and buy an alblum from someone you heard on your local college station.
Are you being deliberately obtuse or did you not put any thought into it? That's the entire point of this. People ARE voting with their wallets. They're sick of it. Yet the RIAA choses to blame it on "pirates" rather than "people are sick of our crappy music"
1) It's only a root exploit if Apache is running as root. Neither I nor anyone I know runs Apache as root. I think the default is "nobody". "nobody" can't install a root kit. So it was only a root exploit if somone made apache run as root on purpose?
2) So... it still relies on the user doing something wrong? (Be it downloading an attachment, making it executable and running it with root privledges or changing the settings on an application to be insecure (eg change apache to run as root))
3) Okay, that apache issue wasn't a root exploit for me. Does that me me "INVINCABLE!"?
Computers arent people, why try and make them think like people
Why? Because people aren't computers. Why should we have to think like one? If we're going to intereact with a computer, wouldn't it be nice for the computer to understand what we mean and say, and to present us with our results in a way that is natural to us?
I'm not denying that the ADA has accomplished some good things, nor am I saying that the ADA is a bad thing, but it does have some pretty horrible conseqeunces.
There are buildings are my alma matter are old. And guess what, they're not allowed to make any changes or improvements to the building. So they just sit there. Why? Because it would be insanely expensive to try to add elevators to these buildings. It would cost about as much as the building cost to build in the first place.
But if they remodel they have to abide by the ADA. Since it's too expensive, they can't do anything.
I've also heard of shocking abuses of the ADA where companies have been shut down because their sink was an inch too high for wheelchair users.
Imagine getting sued because you don't use sign language when initiating a conversation with someone who you didn't know was deaf.
All I'm sayin is... well... I really don't have a point.
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Correct, only searches and results are sent through the supernodes. The results contain the address of the KaZaA node that has the desired content. Just like in Gnutella or Napster or AudioGalaxy or... There's a special case for users behind firewalls where you can send a push through thier supernode and they'll contact you.
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Negatory. You're wrong.
KaZaA searches are sent through automatically elected supernodes which communicate with other supernodes (much like the the new "UltraPeer" in Limewire et. al.) Then the transfer is done via a borked HTTP protocol on any port (usually 1214)
You're still ignoring when demand drops below the point of economies of scale, which will lead to MUCH higher prices. Of course, you have to determine how elastic the demand and supply are in order to really understand it.
Okay, one more thing, in a competative environment, companies do not make an economic profit, correct? So when the demand drops, and price drops, then firms who are in that market either start losing money, or retreat from the market. Which lowers supply, which raises prices.... etc etc etc until it reaches a new balance.
But it is possible that decreased demand can lead to less compition due to firms leaving the market.
(Wow.. haven't been in an econ discussion in a while... I was only 3 classes away from an econ degree but decided the two I already had was good enough)
Decreased demand only means one thing: Lower prices.
I gotta disagree with the "only" thing. Have you taken anything besides intro econ?
Lower prices will eventually lead to an decreased supply, which would lead to higher prices. Additonally, it may eventually reach a point where it no longers enjoys economy of scale and thus becomes MUCH more expensive.
Without competing technologies, prices go up. It's a simple economic principal.
That has nothing to do with economic principal. Without competition prices will go up, not competeing technology. If you don't believe me, look at Gateway, HP, Dell, etc. They all sell the same technology, yet their competition keeps prices "down".
The thing that kills me is people who have these Personal Firewalls and use Peer to Peer file trading. Then they get really upset when someone else tries to connect to their computer! Nothing like having to explain to someone that their firewall was freaking them out because someone was trying to download something off Kazaa from them.
Usually they just get mad at you for pointing out that they don't know what their talking about.
I think the creaters of Personal Firewall software are just as guilty of this sort of thing. "Hackers may be breaking into YOUR computer!!" But this is my personal favorite:
"Warning! Someone is trying to connect to you on port 6346! It's probably a hacker! Want their ISPs contact information?"
OH MY GOD!! You used gnutella, and someone had the nerve to try to connect to you?!?! Who makes a product that does that? That's so horrible irresponsible, and it leads to us poor, poor sysadmins getting tons of emails from people saying "someone at yer company was trying to break into my computer 'cause my uber groovy firewall said so." These are people who don't know what ports are and also seem to get confused by the fact the computers on a Peer to Peer network might need to.... you know... connect.
And these god awful companies start making up these horrible stories and scaring poor suckers into buying their product and harrassing other sysadmins.
The article didn't say they have been generating a billion dollars a month since the inception of the company but rather that now they're generating a billion dollars a month.
Maybe last year there were only making 750 Million a month, and the year before 500 and the year before... you get my point
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yeah.. 42 would have been nice... And the odd thing is that I read and posted without an account for a long time... then I finally had something to say and made an account. I don't even remember what was so important.
Boo! There's your "under 100"!
That's true... but it's also possible that if they had a clause like that in their contracts years ago that all the people they have working for them now wouldn't have agreed to it. At least the poor guy flippin' burgers can know that he hired smart people, rather than people too stupid to read a contract and understand the implications of it.
Anyway, I harbor no ill feelings towards Compaq (HP?) for their refusal to discuss the contract terms. In my ever so humble personal opinion, it's their loss. They're losing people because of their horrible contracts.
My thoughts exactly!
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Is $20 too much for a CD with one decent track and a bunch of filler? Absolutely.
I've never paid for than $18 for a DVD. But I have paid $25 for a CD. But it was Pink Floyd, and it was worth it.
Of course to be fair, DVD movies are movies that have already recieved revenue from theatres and rentals before they're for sale.
The problem is that none of the "new music" is worth what they want to charge.
Is $20 too much for a CD of really good music? No. I think that's okay.
Is $20 too much for a CD with one decent track and a bunch of filler? Absolutely.
Is $20 too much for a CD full of crap? Absolutely.
If I'd heard a single new band I liked, then I'd buy their CDs. But I haven't. In a long time.
I really did want to work there, but the contract they offered was entirely unacceptable to me. I could not turn over every idea I ever had, have, or will have to some company I was about to start working for. I had worked as an intern at Compaq in Houston the year before. But they were unwilling to work out a decent contract. I have no problem with them owning everything that I make for them, but what I make on my own time is mine.
Now I've got a job with 50% higher pay. You can't attract the best of the best with stupid contracts.
I know they were smart, I talked to a bunch of them and was very impressed. Maybe they had a better contract than that one they gave me.
I didn't! Now I've got a job making 50% more than they were offering.
But still.. being a kernel hacker on VMS would have been fun.
I had a job offer from Compaq to work on the OpenVMS kernel. Sounded like a good deal. I got a chance to fly to Nashua, New Hamshire to check out the facilities and meet the people I would potentially be working with. Let me tell you, these guys were incredibly smart.
Then I got the contract. It had a clause stating that any idea I ever had as well as any ideas I had while I worked for them belonged to them. As well as a non-compete clause. They wouldn't budge on it, so I turned down their offer.
Oh well. I really would have liked a chance to work on their OS, but they weren't interested. Really too bad.
Good idea. Ignore the GPL. Then you don't have any rights to use the source code. Remember, the GPL grants you more rights than you normally have with a peice of copyrighted code. So ignore the GPL and you're back to copyrighted code.
Ignore a patent and you have an idea.
See?
If you don't like Britney Spears, for gods sake, vote with your wallet. Go out and buy an alblum from someone you heard on your local college station.
Are you being deliberately obtuse or did you not put any thought into it? That's the entire point of this. People ARE voting with their wallets. They're sick of it. Yet the RIAA choses to blame it on "pirates" rather than "people are sick of our crappy music"
1) It's only a root exploit if Apache is running as root. Neither I nor anyone I know runs Apache as root. I think the default is "nobody". "nobody" can't install a root kit. So it was only a root exploit if somone made apache run as root on purpose?
2) So... it still relies on the user doing something wrong? (Be it downloading an attachment, making it executable and running it with root privledges or changing the settings on an application to be insecure (eg change apache to run as root))
3) Okay, that apache issue wasn't a root exploit for me. Does that me me "INVINCABLE!"?
Computers arent people, why try and make them think like people
Why? Because people aren't computers. Why should we have to think like one? If we're going to intereact with a computer, wouldn't it be nice for the computer to understand what we mean and say, and to present us with our results in a way that is natural to us?
Makes sense to me.
I'm not denying that the ADA has accomplished some good things, nor am I saying that the ADA is a bad thing, but it does have some pretty horrible conseqeunces.
There are buildings are my alma matter are old. And guess what, they're not allowed to make any changes or improvements to the building. So they just sit there. Why? Because it would be insanely expensive to try to add elevators to these buildings. It would cost about as much as the building cost to build in the first place.
But if they remodel they have to abide by the ADA. Since it's too expensive, they can't do anything.
I've also heard of shocking abuses of the ADA where companies have been shut down because their sink was an inch too high for wheelchair users.
Imagine getting sued because you don't use sign language when initiating a conversation with someone who you didn't know was deaf.
All I'm sayin is... well... I really don't have a point.
Correct, only searches and results are sent through the supernodes. The results contain the address of the KaZaA node that has the desired content. Just like in Gnutella or Napster or AudioGalaxy or... There's a special case for users behind firewalls where you can send a push through thier supernode and they'll contact you.
Negatory. You're wrong.
KaZaA searches are sent through automatically elected supernodes which communicate with other supernodes (much like the the new "UltraPeer" in Limewire et. al.) Then the transfer is done via a borked HTTP protocol on any port (usually 1214)
Yeah, I'd go with misleading. I can agree with that.. but eventually low demand can mean less compition... eventually....
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But hey, at least I finally found an intelligent poster on
Finally? I've been here for a while.
You're still ignoring when demand drops below the point of economies of scale, which will lead to MUCH higher prices. Of course, you have to determine how elastic the demand and supply are in order to really understand it.
Okay, one more thing, in a competative environment, companies do not make an economic profit, correct? So when the demand drops, and price drops, then firms who are in that market either start losing money, or retreat from the market. Which lowers supply, which raises prices.... etc etc etc until it reaches a new balance.
But it is possible that decreased demand can lead to less compition due to firms leaving the market.
(Wow.. haven't been in an econ discussion in a while... I was only 3 classes away from an econ degree but decided the two I already had was good enough)
that all make sense?
Decreased demand only means one thing: Lower prices.
I gotta disagree with the "only" thing. Have you taken anything besides intro econ?
Lower prices will eventually lead to an decreased supply, which would lead to higher prices. Additonally, it may eventually reach a point where it no longers enjoys economy of scale and thus becomes MUCH more expensive.
Without competing technologies, prices go up. It's a simple economic principal.
That has nothing to do with economic principal. Without competition prices will go up, not competeing technology. If you don't believe me, look at Gateway, HP, Dell, etc. They all sell the same technology, yet their competition keeps prices "down".
The thing that kills me is people who have these Personal Firewalls and use Peer to Peer file trading. Then they get really upset when someone else tries to connect to their computer! Nothing like having to explain to someone that their firewall was freaking them out because someone was trying to download something off Kazaa from them.
Usually they just get mad at you for pointing out that they don't know what their talking about.
sigh.
People.
I think the creaters of Personal Firewall software are just as guilty of this sort of thing. "Hackers may be breaking into YOUR computer!!" But this is my personal favorite:
"Warning! Someone is trying to connect to you on port 6346! It's probably a hacker! Want their ISPs contact information?"
OH MY GOD!! You used gnutella, and someone had the nerve to try to connect to you?!?! Who makes a product that does that? That's so horrible irresponsible, and it leads to us poor, poor sysadmins getting tons of emails from people saying "someone at yer company was trying to break into my computer 'cause my uber groovy firewall said so." These are people who don't know what ports are and also seem to get confused by the fact the computers on a Peer to Peer network might need to.... you know... connect.
And these god awful companies start making up these horrible stories and scaring poor suckers into buying their product and harrassing other sysadmins.
May they all rot in the depths of hell.
Okay, that might be a little extreme.
There is a very distinct difference between "copyright infringement" and "theft". And it's important to make that distinction.
:-P
If you copy someones work in school, you're STEALING their work aren't you?
I'm a smart ass. We always called that "cheating". They still had their work too.
right, the fact that it's not stealing is what makes it not stealing.
Oh.. did you mean to say just because the didn't lose any revenue doesn't make this not copyright infringement? that actually makes sense.
Regardless of the tone (was it supposed to be funny, sarcastic?) that is a viewpoint that some people around here hold. And I hate it. It's moronic.
And "Troll"? please.
I know I shouldn't feed the trolls, but...
How different from slashdot?
Slashdot is not the government. Slashdot controls slashot, not every other web site.
These fines include, but are not limited to, a loss of karma
If you're that worried about your slashdot Karma, might I suggest seeing a therapist? Or stepping outside?
subsequent reduction in one's personal right to participate in the democratic activity known as moderation.
You have no right to be a moderator. End of Discussion.
You really need to be smacked with a clue by four.
The article didn't say they have been generating a billion dollars a month since the inception of the company but rather that now they're generating a billion dollars a month.
Maybe last year there were only making 750 Million a month, and the year before 500 and the year before... you get my point