The actions described and documented are almost absurd, they seem so outlandish. If I hadn't opened the.pdf's, I'd be thinking that maybe there was some similarity, and maybe just enough to justify their claims and a potential suit. But looking at the.pdf and seeing that it is indeed a virtual carbon-copy, I'm blown away.
To stoop so low to try to steal someone elses lunch because you can't pack your own and to be so damn [b]blatant[/b] about it as well.
Seems Sygma is counting on their lawyers ability to bury all this with years of extensions in filings and delayed litigation for "fact finding" and "internal auditing" etc etc etc ad nauseum. Hoping in the end to kill XVID with the legal fees and to continue with their practices, betting that the storm will be long forgotten by then.
Atleast that should be their strategy, but it *shouldn't* work... this needs to get out of slashdot and into the industry and consumer media at large. Scream this from the damn mountain tops, because who would want to buy stolen work? Who would want to support this kind of crap?
I suspect it wont be the infringement suit that would kill Sygma, but the wrath of the market at large.
The irony here is that the launch sent up Eutelsats Hot Bird 6 so they can get the Playboy Channel all throughout Europe, the Mediteranian and North Africa. You'd think he'd be thanking us for delivering the latest video centerfolds:P
Offering a total of 32 transponders (28 Ku-band, 4 Ka-band) and eight SKYPLEX units for on-board multiplexing, Hot Bird 6 will deliver digital television and radio channels to satellite and cable homes in Europe, North Africa and large parts of the Middle East, reinforcing one of the largest broadcasting systems in the world.
...of course I'm sure we have Echelon monitering all his pay-per-porn use and making due note of it as we speak.
Sorry, not trying to be a troll, but I'm no rocket fan...
More Thruster, more lift... great *insert golf clap*
We need new ideas and bold steps in propulsion if we're ever going to graduate from the rocket age into bonafide space travel.
We've been hooked on rockets as the ultimate in propulsion since WWII and though ideas have come forward, some very radical ideas even in the last decade, NASA is hesitant to pursue these ideas due to concerns of cost and even more so, concerns of failure due to high Gov't scrutiny.
It's sad that the US Gov't, being the only body with enough power to really do something for our future in space keeps things on such a short leash. Perhaps they should just kick back and play the "grant-daddy" and let private companies work hand in hand with them to speed things up a bit and share in the risk.
Damn, do something to get capital interests involved... Even if it's just to mine rocks on the moon, I'd volunteer to work there for a lunar year...but we have a new rocket, guess that's better than nothing.
Why am I suddenly thinking about that star trek episode where everyone got turned into those powdery tetrahedrons?
Maybe I'm just old fashioned, but the idea of being turned into a precious mineral after I die give me the willies right about now./* Thanks to this slashdot post I'm now doomed to 10 years of credit card for a wedding ring bill... or I'll now where I'll be buried;) */
Gee, a giant hunk of metal with a computer that makes my palm pilot look fantastic is dominating all our later efforts 25 years ago.
No, I'm not poo-pooing on Voyager, you go lil guy.
But, I want to take a crap all over NASA and the utter inability to best Voyager in the 25 years of innovation since. Is it just me or is the space industry in a completely different reality than the rest of our technology sectors? I mean really though, think... the space shuttle was in the 80's, 20 years ago and we're still there!
We need to get Gordon Moore in here to help figure out a quantitative method to determine just when I can vacation on Mars thank you very much.
Sorry, but the only thing that got me to watch Enterprise was uber babe Jolene Blalock.
StarTrek has degrading from swashbuckling action to moral pontification in space, no more "Let's get our shirts ripped, blow away the bad guys and get the greenskinned girl back to our quarters."
Now it's, "who are we to act like gods in space?...To fire the proton torpedoes or not, that is the question Captain"
To be fair, the series premiere and finale were good, I really enjoyed. But, all the episodes in between were old hat and just plain boring.
What I'd like to see? Mission Impossible StarTrek style, ditch the ship and whip out all the cool gadgets to spy on bad guys and make big explosions with! Seriously though, a StarTrek focused on a few StarFleet secret agents with the latest in badass sci-fi tech going out on commando missions would definitely be worth watching and add some new blood into the aging ratings vehicle.
And I thought James Bond had it made. With GPS via Bluetooth and a built in Camera, all we need now is a miniature high-powered laser or other such energy weapon capable of burning through steel and this thing would be ready for use by all '00' agents.
Regardless if it has the laser or not, I'm getting one of these killer P800's the day they come out with one for Verizon, since they just got the 3G wireless services up and running here in the Bay Area, it's time I got a phone capable of using the uber-network that floats in the air around me.
And the idea of taking a picture and sending it over my phone to some one in an instant is just way too cool. I think that's going to be all the rage: take a picture - add a note and send it off. That's the ultimate in communication right there...
Next time I'm running late for a meeting, I could just snap a quick pic of the nightmare traffic I'm stuck in and send it to the people waiting on me:)
This has been done before, and yes...
Will be done again.
Last year, I came up with something very similar that I called the Partnered Development License (PDL), thinking that it would be the shiz-nit. No lawyer would touch it. Actually, they told me to sell it to e-trade or Ameri-trade (maybe I should)
Basically, you can just think of this as a micro-IPO, you invest, you get a share on the return and we're all happy right?
Well, in devising such a plan, I realized a major factor of accountability here: Accurate and Accountable reporting on Gross sales statistics. That is, how do we know how much is actually sold on the market to be able to ensure that all participants get their due share?
The only real answer: A common market.
So basically, we would need to create a model based upon the working model of NASDAQ or NYSE to accomodate the accounting of sales for each traded commodity (software) to ensure accountability and accurate exchange rates.
What a frickin mess!!!!
damn-it Jim, I'm a developer not a suit!
So, seeing the tremendous efforts that would be involved, and after presenting the following framework (linked below) to Capitalists to seek investment in this venture, and seeing them shudder with anxiety at the slightest thought of what would all have to into this:
The hundreds of millions of $$$'s
The ordeal of a year or more of filings and scrutiny by the SCC
The effort to attract participants for this market
The utter uncertainty
They kindly told me to rethink the requirements and suggested that I just forget about it and do what I do best: Develop Software.
The fact that they gave me several hours of their time and pointed out these issues was reward unto itself and I thank them.
I should note that a market very similar to this has already been established here:
Asycrony.com and from what I can tell, really isn't doing all that hot. But, they've around for awhile and maybe they just need and deserve more support from the development community to gain more public awareness.
So for those who are interested in a Partnered Development License or agreement to facilitate Co-Development with Capitalists, see the following link for the M$.DOC file.
Kinda like saying what professional site uses ASP *shudders*
PHP is not Perl no, but I write Perl as well.
PHP just happens to be in big demand right now.
I get about 2 new clients each week.
Each one wanting PHP, each one being a corporation, and each one paying mad cash.
Perl IS NOT the end all be all.
Perl is a wonderful scripting language that I will always use for back-end tasks via Cron.
Perl is not something I generate web pages with.
Out of the cubicle and into the gutter!
I have no sympathy for those who just can't cope with their bad fortune.
Yes, I was a.com worker, doing PHP development for bazillion.gone and I was there when the company went under, I had a hard time finding work *boo-hoo* and almost thought about leaving the tech sector entirely *shivers*
What did I do?
I started my own IT consulting business.
Now I make 4x what I was making working for someone else, and I love it!
Fact: those who can't adapt perish
viva le recession!!!
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The actions described and documented are almost absurd, they seem so outlandish. If I hadn't opened the .pdf's, I'd be thinking that maybe there was some similarity, and maybe just enough to justify their claims and a potential suit. .pdf and seeing that it is indeed a virtual carbon-copy, I'm blown away.
But looking at the
To stoop so low to try to steal someone elses lunch because you can't pack your own and to be so damn [b]blatant[/b] about it as well.
Seems Sygma is counting on their lawyers ability to bury all this with years of extensions in filings and delayed litigation for "fact finding" and "internal auditing" etc etc etc ad nauseum. Hoping in the end to kill XVID with the legal fees and to continue with their practices, betting that the storm will be long forgotten by then.
Atleast that should be their strategy, but it *shouldn't* work... this needs to get out of slashdot and into the industry and consumer media at large. Scream this from the damn mountain tops, because who would want to buy stolen work?
Who would want to support this kind of crap?
I suspect it wont be the infringement suit that would kill Sygma, but the wrath of the market at large.
*looks for a pitchfork*
Offering a total of 32 transponders (28 Ku-band, 4 Ka-band) and eight SKYPLEX units for on-board multiplexing, Hot Bird 6 will deliver digital television and radio channels to satellite and cable homes in Europe, North Africa and large parts of the Middle East, reinforcing one of the largest broadcasting systems in the world.
Sorry, not trying to be a troll, but I'm no rocket fan...
..but we have a new rocket, guess that's better than nothing.
More Thruster, more lift... great *insert golf clap*
We need new ideas and bold steps in propulsion if we're ever going to graduate from the rocket age into bonafide space travel.
We've been hooked on rockets as the ultimate in propulsion since WWII and though ideas have come forward, some very radical ideas even in the last decade, NASA is hesitant to pursue these ideas due to concerns of cost and even more so, concerns of failure due to high Gov't scrutiny.
It's sad that the US Gov't, being the only body with enough power to really do something for our future in space keeps things on such a short leash. Perhaps they should just kick back and play the "grant-daddy" and let private companies work hand in hand with them to speed things up a bit and share in the risk.
Damn, do something to get capital interests involved... Even if it's just to mine rocks on the moon, I'd volunteer to work there for a lunar year.
Why am I suddenly thinking about that star trek episode where everyone got turned into those powdery tetrahedrons?
/* ;)
Maybe I'm just old fashioned, but the idea of being turned into a precious mineral after I die give me the willies right about now.
Thanks to this slashdot post I'm now doomed to 10 years of credit card for a wedding ring bill...
or I'll now where I'll be buried
*/
Gee, a giant hunk of metal with a computer that makes my palm pilot look fantastic is dominating all our later efforts 25 years ago.
No, I'm not poo-pooing on Voyager, you go lil guy.
But, I want to take a crap all over NASA and the utter inability to best Voyager in the 25 years of innovation since. Is it just me or is the space industry in a completely different reality than the rest of our technology sectors?
I mean really though, think... the space shuttle was in the 80's, 20 years ago and we're still there!
We need to get Gordon Moore in here to help figure out a quantitative method to determine just when I can vacation on Mars thank you very much.
Sorry, but the only thing that got me to watch Enterprise was uber babe Jolene Blalock.
...To fire the proton torpedoes or not, that is the question Captain"
StarTrek has degrading from swashbuckling action to moral pontification in space, no more "Let's get our shirts ripped, blow away the bad guys and get the greenskinned girl back to our quarters."
Now it's, "who are we to act like gods in space?
To be fair, the series premiere and finale were good, I really enjoyed. But, all the episodes in between were old hat and just plain boring.
What I'd like to see? Mission Impossible StarTrek style, ditch the ship and whip out all the cool gadgets to spy on bad guys and make big explosions with! Seriously though, a StarTrek focused on a few StarFleet secret agents with the latest in badass sci-fi tech going out on commando missions would definitely be worth watching and add some new blood into the aging ratings vehicle.
UPN dudes -- You reading this?
Since when has anyone viewed tech-support as anything but nerve-wracking and half-assed with decent support as the exception rather than the rule?
But, in fairness... it *IS* Sunday and I guess they needed to put something up on \. for the hour.
And I thought James Bond had it made.
:)
With GPS via Bluetooth and a built in Camera, all we need now is a miniature high-powered laser or other such energy weapon capable of burning through steel and this thing would be ready for use by all '00' agents.
Regardless if it has the laser or not, I'm getting one of these killer P800's the day they come out with one for Verizon, since they just got the 3G wireless services up and running here in the Bay Area, it's time I got a phone capable of using the uber-network that floats in the air around me.
And the idea of taking a picture and sending it over my phone to some one in an instant is just way too cool. I think that's going to be all the rage: take a picture - add a note and send it off.
That's the ultimate in communication right there...
Next time I'm running late for a meeting, I could just snap a quick pic of the nightmare traffic I'm stuck in and send it to the people waiting on me
Last year, I came up with something very similar that I called the Partnered Development License (PDL), thinking that it would be the shiz-nit. No lawyer would touch it. Actually, they told me to sell it to e-trade or Ameri-trade (maybe I should)
Basically, you can just think of this as a micro-IPO, you invest, you get a share on the return and we're all happy right?Well, in devising such a plan, I realized a major factor of accountability here: Accurate and Accountable reporting on Gross sales statistics. That is, how do we know how much is actually sold on the market to be able to ensure that all participants get their due share?
The only real answer: A common market. So basically, we would need to create a model based upon the working model of NASDAQ or NYSE to accomodate the accounting of sales for each traded commodity (software) to ensure accountability and accurate exchange rates.
What a frickin mess!!!! damn-it Jim, I'm a developer not a suit!So, seeing the tremendous efforts that would be involved, and after presenting the following framework (linked below) to Capitalists to seek investment in this venture, and seeing them shudder with anxiety at the slightest thought of what would all have to into this:
- The hundreds of millions of $$$'s
- The ordeal of a year or more of filings and scrutiny by the SCC
- The effort to attract participants for this market
- The utter uncertainty
They kindly told me to rethink the requirements and suggested that I just forget about it and do what I do best: Develop Software. The fact that they gave me several hours of their time and pointed out these issues was reward unto itself and I thank them.I should note that a market very similar to this has already been established here: Asycrony.com and from what I can tell, really isn't doing all that hot. But, they've around for awhile and maybe they just need and deserve more support from the development community to gain more public awareness.
So for those who are interested in a Partnered Development License or agreement to facilitate Co-Development with Capitalists, see the following link for the M$Partnered Development License v2
What professional site uses PHP?
Thousands.
Kinda like saying what professional site uses ASP *shudders*
PHP is not Perl no, but I write Perl as well. PHP just happens to be in big demand right now. I get about 2 new clients each week. Each one wanting PHP, each one being a corporation, and each one paying mad cash.
Perl IS NOT the end all be all. Perl is a wonderful scripting language that I will always use for back-end tasks via Cron. Perl is not something I generate web pages with.
Out of the cubicle and into the gutter! I have no sympathy for those who just can't cope with their bad fortune. Yes, I was a .com worker, doing PHP development for bazillion.gone and I was there when the company went under, I had a hard time finding work *boo-hoo* and almost thought about leaving the tech sector entirely *shivers*
What did I do?
I started my own IT consulting business.
Now I make 4x what I was making working for someone else, and I love it!
Fact: those who can't adapt perish
viva le recession!!!