Re:Good professionals will always find work
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Giant Sucking Noise
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Not that I am particularly for or against outsourcing work but the company I work for recently decided to go with a developer who will outsource the work to India. The product is a custom search engine running on SQL with a Java interface. One of the good things about us outsourcing our work to India is that because of the time zone difference their day is our night and they can do maintenance on the system while no one is working over here.
I work for a company that makes movie trailers. Due to the nature of the bussiness we need large amounts of storage and fast acess to it. For out main editing stations we use a fiber setup but for the motion graphics department we have one 400 gb Medea external system and for that departments server we have a terabyte of sotrage on a IDE RAID solution. Both of them work great, the second system is RAID 5 with hot-swapable hard drive bays. It works great and it was around 1/5 the cost of a SCSI solution and even more for a Fiber Solution.
I was wondering how you were caught? I read that there was a search and seizure but how did they catch you doing the crime?
What was the evidence that they used against you? Against other people that you know of (e.g. people in Drink or Die compared to people in RiSC, if you know anything about the other cases)
Is your only punishment jail time and a fine?
Did you plead down to a lesser sentence for some reason or another? If so what was the reason?
The tables would be turned . . .
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Want Freedom?
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The thing is with this article, the veiws of the general populace are all worried about other people. If it was themselves (eg their church or religous orginization) who were being monitored things would be slightley different.
How exactly can a government pass laws against purchasing from a particular company, considering the fact that the company is still operating under perfectly LEGAL pretenses and practices? It doesn't make any difference what MS has been charged with or convicted of, because they haven't been sentenced.
It isn't really that absurd. It does make a difference if they have been charged and if they have been sentenced or not. The fact is that they were charged with a crime and they are in court and they will be sentenced. Since public offices have to maintain a certain dignity (even if they really don't do that very well) laws are sometimes passed to bring that dignity about.
It really isn't the best way for the OSS movement to gain access to mainstream arenas but honestly I would take it where i can get it and move on from there.
It may not encourage the change, but the law is the law, and in those particular counties Microsoft may be forced out. Hopefully the bad vibes people will feel by being forced into a situation would disapate after realizing the cost differences.
The thing is most people don't even recognize that is an illegal act, they think that they are aloud to download thier songs or what ever else. Even if they do recognize the fact that the program they are downloading is not theirs and it is illegal for them to use it its a white lie sort of deal, it doesnt hurt anyone and it can't be that bad They just don't realize that it can be very harmful if someone comes down like the BSA.
MPEG4 and Quicktime 5.x
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More on MPEG4
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I have been working with a company that provides turn-key encoding solutions and the licensing issues with MPEG 4 are what has been delaying the next release of Quickimte (for those of us who like to watch trailers on Apple's Trailer site)
I personally don't see how more stable is any different - basically to me that means that "Hey we have been making a product for 7 years and we are finally starting to get it right. Lets pat ourselves on the back now."
More stable means nothing this late in the games. The thing is they made so much money selling shitty products they have enough money to through at anything and they are going to keep putting out those shitty products.
I think that the reason that we can't sue M$ for their software bugs (or any other software company for that matter) is because there are so many bugs and defects.
If they made better products with a small tiny chance of a bug (like a car their is a chance but it is so unlikley that it is worth selling it) then they would be held acountable but since their are so many . . . you get the idea.
Another point for thought is what happens when open software has bugs. I know it was posted above that "we are giving it for free and thier might be a chance of bugs" but still people will bring anyone they can to court. Should a college student who developed a patch with unforseen consequences and was accepted into some tree be liable? Maybe the person who accepted it should be liable? No niether one should be but it shows this isnt a black and white issue.
"They don't really provide any significant benefit to SF"
I think that they really do provide a benefit to SF. They encourage people to use thier pay service more.
I also dont think that any of these (except for the privacy statement not being valid) are that much of a deal. They are providing a free service. Everything that is listed above is a courtesy and should not really be expected so much as appreciated.
Re:AOL is dominant only in the USA
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Heart of the Net
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The Net will still be created for us . . . if we work it right. At this point this article is 100% correct, AOL and MSN are enormous players that are not going to give up and can through enough money at a problem till it goes away.
Their must be some way we can change something and tip the balance of power. We just have to find the right thing. This article does feel alot like a lament but things are not over yet, they are just alot more difficult
The most important part of fighting a battle like this is educating the masses. Making them aware of what the problem is and give them ways to stop it. The masses are not aware of the many security risks that M$ has - they figure everything is like that. There should be some sort of huge publicity campaign similar to The Truth. Otherwise things are not goign to change.
The problem arises when you use earlier versions of Mac OS - they aren't quite as stable. Although,a crash in Mac OS is alot easier to handle then a crash in WIndows. OS X is great its stable and pretty but it is not mainstream. It's stil UNIX. Hopefully that will change things and hopefull it will bridge the *NIX world with the apple world giving a larger entity to fight off the M$ hordes.
And that is the reason that Apple has the 4.5% market share.
The problem is they are not mainstream in anything except hollywood. you can't walk into a film studio or a trailer house or graphics with out seeing at least 10 Macs wether they are g4's or imacs
Another reason for that is that although PC's appear to be faster (they look faster b/c of a higher Mhz speed) they actuall are about even. which is another reason the public doesnt go for them - PC's look faster.
The iMacs are easy to use no question about it. The reason the public doesn't trust macs though is b/c of past history. They had shoddy support they update there software quite frequently - its hassel's that people don't want to deal with plain and simple.
I know that microsoft probabley realeases more updates and patches and security fixs then anyone else but its not a mandatory update.
The new Apple Product iPhoto - its only available under OS X. That means that anyone who wants "the whole easy to use digital hub" has to switch to OS X and most people can't b/c most companies havn't updates their software. It's a catch 22 sort of deal
I really dont want to badmouth Tom or anything but after watching the videos It kinda looked like the damage was done to the CPU before the tests. I know the Tom's is always objective and usually leans towards AMD's side but this is what it looked like to me - I dont know why someone would do that either.
I would think that nano technology is not either chemical or biological, more of a mechanical and a new treaty would probabley be necessary (please don't use the DMCA b/c of copying). I just cant see it falling under the ones we have now.
I love the books and have read them umpteen times each. One of my favorite series and Authuors. I was extremly disapointed in the quality of the first mini-series, the adaptation was excellent and the acting was pretty good. It did seem to get a good grasp of the culture by not excellent.
I do not want to see the rest of the books mauled this way though. If they have a decent budget and it looks better then I am all for it but if its like the first one the screw it it isnt even worth looking at.
I work for a company that produces movie trailers and we have a program (we are based in Los Angeles) callet ETP which is funded by the State Governement that provides money for education in companys that are helping out the economy. Sort of you help us we are going to help you situation. They need new blood so they pay for most of the cost of training. As far as my company personally they don't have a budget, if its needed we can afford it.
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Not that I am particularly for or against outsourcing work but the company I work for recently decided to go with a developer who will outsource the work to India. The product is a custom search engine running on SQL with a Java interface. One of the good things about us outsourcing our work to India is that because of the time zone difference their day is our night and they can do maintenance on the system while no one is working over here.
I work for a company that makes movie trailers. Due to the nature of the bussiness we need large amounts of storage and fast acess to it. For out main editing stations we use a fiber setup but for the motion graphics department we have one 400 gb Medea external system and for that departments server we have a terabyte of sotrage on a IDE RAID solution. Both of them work great, the second system is RAID 5 with hot-swapable hard drive bays. It works great and it was around 1/5 the cost of a SCSI solution and even more for a Fiber Solution.
It would deffinetly help to have something to look at as far as designing the program and Blender would deffinetly be a great place to start.
P.S. - Please make the interface easier to use then Blender.
Inside info - the Ents are not cut out
They have actually created a physical one-way function that cannot be tampered, copied or faked!
should read cannot be tempered, copied or faked yet.
I was wondering how you were caught? I read that there was a search and seizure but how did they catch you doing the crime?
What was the evidence that they used against you? Against other people that you know of (e.g. people in Drink or Die compared to people in RiSC, if you know anything about the other cases)
Is your only punishment jail time and a fine?
Did you plead down to a lesser sentence for some reason or another? If so what was the reason?
The thing is with this article, the veiws of the general populace are all worried about other people. If it was themselves (eg their church or religous orginization) who were being monitored things would be slightley different.
How exactly can a government pass laws against purchasing from a particular company, considering the fact that the company is still operating under perfectly LEGAL pretenses and practices? It doesn't make any difference what MS has been charged with or convicted of, because they haven't been sentenced.
It isn't really that absurd. It does make a difference if they have been charged and if they have been sentenced or not. The fact is that they were charged with a crime and they are in court and they will be sentenced. Since public offices have to maintain a certain dignity (even if they really don't do that very well) laws are sometimes passed to bring that dignity about.
It really isn't the best way for the OSS movement to gain access to mainstream arenas but honestly I would take it where i can get it and move on from there.
It may not encourage the change, but the law is the law, and in those particular counties Microsoft may be forced out. Hopefully the bad vibes people will feel by being forced into a situation would disapate after realizing the cost differences.
The thing is most people don't even recognize that is an illegal act, they think that they are aloud to download thier songs or what ever else. Even if they do recognize the fact that the program they are downloading is not theirs and it is illegal for them to use it its a white lie sort of deal, it doesnt hurt anyone and it can't be that bad
They just don't realize that it can be very harmful if someone comes down like the BSA.
I have been working with a company that provides turn-key encoding solutions and the licensing issues with MPEG 4 are what has been delaying the next release of Quickimte (for those of us who like to watch trailers on Apple's Trailer site)
I personally don't see how more stable is any different - basically to me that means that "Hey we have been making a product for 7 years and we are finally starting to get it right. Lets pat ourselves on the back now."
More stable means nothing this late in the games. The thing is they made so much money selling shitty products they have enough money to through at anything and they are going to keep putting out those shitty products.
I think that the reason that we can't sue M$ for their software bugs (or any other software company for that matter) is because there are so many bugs and defects.
If they made better products with a small tiny chance of a bug (like a car their is a chance but it is so unlikley that it is worth selling it) then they would be held acountable but since their are so many . . . you get the idea.
Another point for thought is what happens when open software has bugs. I know it was posted above that "we are giving it for free and thier might be a chance of bugs" but still people will bring anyone they can to court. Should a college student who developed a patch with unforseen consequences and was accepted into some tree be liable? Maybe the person who accepted it should be liable? No niether one should be but it shows this isnt a black and white issue.
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"They don't really provide any significant benefit to SF"
I think that they really do provide a benefit to SF. They encourage people to use thier pay service more.
I also dont think that any of these (except for the privacy statement not being valid) are that much of a deal. They are providing a free service. Everything that is listed above is a courtesy and should not really be expected so much as appreciated.
The Net will still be created for us . . . if we work it right. At this point this article is 100% correct, AOL and MSN are enormous players that are not going to give up and can through enough money at a problem till it goes away.
Their must be some way we can change something and tip the balance of power. We just have to find the right thing. This article does feel alot like a lament but things are not over yet, they are just alot more difficult
The most important part of fighting a battle like this is educating the masses. Making them aware of what the problem is and give them ways to stop it. The masses are not aware of the many security risks that M$ has - they figure everything is like that. There should be some sort of huge publicity campaign similar to The Truth. Otherwise things are not goign to change.
The Myths about Macs will settle some questions the basic user might have.
-S
The problem arises when you use earlier versions of Mac OS - they aren't quite as stable. Although,a crash in Mac OS is alot easier to handle then a crash in WIndows. OS X is great its stable and pretty but it is not mainstream. It's stil UNIX. Hopefully that will change things and hopefull it will bridge the *NIX world with the apple world giving a larger entity to fight off the M$ hordes.
The thing is that world dommination is the whole point of life. Isn't it? =P
And that is the reason that Apple has the 4.5% market share.
The problem is they are not mainstream in anything except hollywood. you can't walk into a film studio or a trailer house or graphics with out seeing at least 10 Macs wether they are g4's or imacs
Another reason for that is that although PC's appear to be faster (they look faster b/c of a higher Mhz speed) they actuall are about even. which is another reason the public doesnt go for them - PC's look faster.
The iMacs are easy to use no question about it. The reason the public doesn't trust macs though is b/c of past history. They had shoddy support they update there software quite frequently - its hassel's that people don't want to deal with plain and simple.
I know that microsoft probabley realeases more updates and patches and security fixs then anyone else but its not a mandatory update.
The new Apple Product iPhoto - its only available under OS X. That means that anyone who wants "the whole easy to use digital hub" has to switch to OS X and most people can't b/c most companies havn't updates their software. It's a catch 22 sort of deal
I really dont want to badmouth Tom or anything but after watching the videos It kinda looked like the damage was done to the CPU before the tests. I know the Tom's is always objective and usually leans towards AMD's side but this is what it looked like to me - I dont know why someone would do that either.
I would think that nano technology is not either chemical or biological, more of a mechanical and a new treaty would probabley be necessary (please don't use the DMCA b/c of copying). I just cant see it falling under the ones we have now.
I do not want to see the rest of the books mauled this way though. If they have a decent budget and it looks better then I am all for it but if its like the first one the screw it it isnt even worth looking at.
I work for a company that produces movie trailers and we have a program (we are based in Los Angeles) callet ETP which is funded by the State Governement that provides money for education in companys that are helping out the economy. Sort of you help us we are going to help you situation. They need new blood so they pay for most of the cost of training. As far as my company personally they don't have a budget, if its needed we can afford it.
THats if you dont own photshop already. If you own it it doesnt matter weather GIMP is free or not Photoshop still is the standard.