It's not necessarily all about location... Microsoft's 2nd largest dev center (and in the interest of full disclosure, where I work) is less than a mile from the Googleplex, in sunny Mtn. View, CA. Much of Windows Live is developed here.
I think relating digital assets that can be copied indefinitely for free to someone's computer or cannabis is a bit misleading. The argument that can be made is that she 'stole' the revenue they may have made by selling her or the people she shared the music with the songs.
Somehow 24 songs shared to some unknown but probably reasonably small number of people translates into $222k in damages? Considering a song is $1 on iTunes, she'd have to share each song to over 9000 people to cause that much in lost revenue (not that the full $1 goes to the record companies, but we can pretend...). At the low end, a song might be 2 megs? So she'd have had to share nearly half a terrabyte to accomplish this. That's a lot of data for 24 songs!
The 3% argument falls a bit short. While it's true that on average 3% of the music on iPods came from the iTMS, it's by no means evenly distributed. In my experience, I've found the majority of people have either little-to-no iTMS music (usually far less than 3%), or a significant enough percentage that they wouldn't want to give it up and buy it all over again on a new platform. People are certainly still being locked in, but it's good to see that that's not Steve's goal.
It's funny you say that, I've had the same results with Yahoo. I've never to my knowledge had a bounced message, and all the mail I send has arrived. I use Yahoo POPS so I never actually have to visit mail.yahoo.com, and while occasionally the daemon that downloads the mail times out, I've never had any other problem.
Companies understand that there will be a fair bit of training associated with all interns, and one of the best ways to get a position with a good company is to look for a co-op (like an internship, but lasts 6-9 months) instead. With a co-op, the company knows you'll have plenty of time to be trained and produce useful results. It'll still come in very handy later when you're looking for a summer internship or fulltime job to be able to say you've spent 8 or so solid months at a real job with real projects.
Hell, idiot geek students almost turned me to another major. When it looks like you will have to probably spend the rest of your life with people you can't stand, you start looking for alternatives.
I'll second that emotion. The most bothersome part of being a CS major for me has always been the abrasive people (from the cocky know-it-alls to the "If it doesn't have a keyboard, I want nothing to do with it" types). It's discouraging, but as bad as it can get for me, I could imagine it being all the more difficult for a woman who has to put up with getting constantly ogled by what, in my school (U of Michigan), is a predominantly male population as well.
Yes I agree, the likelihood of this actually happening is next to nill, but I'm trying to compare apples to apples here. If Microsoft added this feature in a sane and logical manner (give me a break, this is hypothetical) then I don't think there'd be any problems, or shouts of "Anti-Trust!" What I was trying to say is that claiming "Microsoft couldn't get away with this" isn't exactly right, because as you've made amusingly obvious, they'd take a far different approach.
I'd like to think that that's wrong. We all know the vast majority of users don't touch the default settings, so if Microsoft implemented this, but didn't turn it on by default, I can't see why anyone would freak out... but then again this is Slashdot.
The difference is his blog is for internal use only. Besides, he doesn't really criticize the company, just give an idea of what he actually thinks about its position and such.
The blog also provides a forum where Intel employees can respond and stay within the intranet.
It is indeed worth reading his version of the story, if not to pass judgment, then merely to see how he pulled it off. Its really quite interesting how much time he put into making the hoax believeable. With no less work, he probably could have made it actually work like it was supposed to...
First, the comment that its useless unless you're in the US is BS. The truth of the matter is that US policy generally has more far reaching effects than those of any other country in the world. Not only does the US export its culture on a grand scale, but many of its laws are reciprocated by other countries in the interest of trade.
Beyond this, your argument is just silly. You say Slashdot covers other countries, but what it covers is anything the editors want to cover. It just so happens that what they're most informed about, and what they want to cover, is US politics. If you've got a problem with that, send them an e-mail. Making angry and redundant posts won't help your cause. Take your inflammatory comments elsewhere.
Troll? I don't think so. I have to agree that the whole "US-Centric" complaint has gotten pretty old for me as well. Slashdot is run by Americans, so yes, thats what the political stories are going to focus on. The politics.slashdot.org color scheme is red white and blue with an American flag banner! Get over it!
If its really that insulting to you, you can take the political stories off your front page in your preferences.
The server actually belongs to the EECS (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science) department at the University of Michigan. You would definitely think they'd be geeky enough to have a decent server. I'm actually a student there and rely on that server for school. I actually ended up on Slashdot when I couldn't get the spec on a project because the server was down.
Yep, Slashdot is destroying productivity as never before.
So basically you're advocating that their job is to respond to a complaint by immediately forcing whoever the complaint is made upon to stop doing whatever was complained about? Thats an interesting approach. So if my competator sells a competing product line, I should file a complaint and have the Department of Homeland Security come shut them down without first performing even the most cursory research? Even if they were right, which in this case they obviously were NOT, they should be stopping infringing products well before they hit retail shelves.
Its true that Microsoft is spending a lot less to produce an XBox now than they did initially. They also now sell the XBox for significantly less money than they did initially, which leads me to believe that even if they are making money, they're not making much. I still assert that its a pretty safe bet that Microsoft doesn't want to be in the business of selling PCs for $150 (current retail for an XBox I believe), let alone $100.
Jesus, all he's talking about is a stripped down X-Box, and they don't cost much more than $100.
They don't cost much more than $100 for the consumer, but thats because Microsoft is losing money selling them for that price. They rely on revenue from the games to recoop the cost. What Ballmer was talking about was a heavily government subsidized computer. He isn't interested in selling the hardware, only the stripped down version of XP to go with it.
The link isn't broken, slashdot just puts a space in a full URL like that. Find the %20 and remove it, and you get a working link for Windows XP for $145. $300 is right, but thats for both licenses.
Thats true, but in all honesty, it doesn't really take much these days to be visible to a satellite. If its visible to the naked eye from space thats a different story.
Slashdot Mirror
There is one final piece that the truly Paranoid tend to dislike about Chrome: RLZ. Here's the skinny: http://blog.chromium.org/2010/06/in-open-for-rlz.html
Using Chromium vs Chrome also gets you out of that.
Disclaimer: I work on Chrome.
It's not necessarily all about location... Microsoft's 2nd largest dev center (and in the interest of full disclosure, where I work) is less than a mile from the Googleplex, in sunny Mtn. View, CA. Much of Windows Live is developed here.
I think relating digital assets that can be copied indefinitely for free to someone's computer or cannabis is a bit misleading. The argument that can be made is that she 'stole' the revenue they may have made by selling her or the people she shared the music with the songs.
Somehow 24 songs shared to some unknown but probably reasonably small number of people translates into $222k in damages? Considering a song is $1 on iTunes, she'd have to share each song to over 9000 people to cause that much in lost revenue (not that the full $1 goes to the record companies, but we can pretend...). At the low end, a song might be 2 megs? So she'd have had to share nearly half a terrabyte to accomplish this. That's a lot of data for 24 songs!
The 3% argument falls a bit short. While it's true that on average 3% of the music on iPods came from the iTMS, it's by no means evenly distributed. In my experience, I've found the majority of people have either little-to-no iTMS music (usually far less than 3%), or a significant enough percentage that they wouldn't want to give it up and buy it all over again on a new platform. People are certainly still being locked in, but it's good to see that that's not Steve's goal.
Yeah... that's because I mis-typed. That should read "they'll essentially let you pick your location," which changes things a bit :) Whoops.
If Google wants you, they'll essentially pick your location, given that your type of position (presumably software engineer) is available there.
It's funny you say that, I've had the same results with Yahoo. I've never to my knowledge had a bounced message, and all the mail I send has arrived. I use Yahoo POPS so I never actually have to visit mail.yahoo.com, and while occasionally the daemon that downloads the mail times out, I've never had any other problem.
It sounds like you've been CURED!!
Companies understand that there will be a fair bit of training associated with all interns, and one of the best ways to get a position with a good company is to look for a co-op (like an internship, but lasts 6-9 months) instead. With a co-op, the company knows you'll have plenty of time to be trained and produce useful results. It'll still come in very handy later when you're looking for a summer internship or fulltime job to be able to say you've spent 8 or so solid months at a real job with real projects.
I'll second that emotion. The most bothersome part of being a CS major for me has always been the abrasive people (from the cocky know-it-alls to the "If it doesn't have a keyboard, I want nothing to do with it" types). It's discouraging, but as bad as it can get for me, I could imagine it being all the more difficult for a woman who has to put up with getting constantly ogled by what, in my school (U of Michigan), is a predominantly male population as well.
Yes I agree, the likelihood of this actually happening is next to nill, but I'm trying to compare apples to apples here. If Microsoft added this feature in a sane and logical manner (give me a break, this is hypothetical) then I don't think there'd be any problems, or shouts of "Anti-Trust!" What I was trying to say is that claiming "Microsoft couldn't get away with this" isn't exactly right, because as you've made amusingly obvious, they'd take a far different approach.
I'd like to think that that's wrong. We all know the vast majority of users don't touch the default settings, so if Microsoft implemented this, but didn't turn it on by default, I can't see why anyone would freak out... but then again this is Slashdot.
The difference is his blog is for internal use only. Besides, he doesn't really criticize the company, just give an idea of what he actually thinks about its position and such.
The blog also provides a forum where Intel employees can respond and stay within the intranet.
I don't know about AC, but I live in Michigan, and plan on putting one of these in every room. Central heat? Naaah, distributed dual core pentiums.
It is indeed worth reading his version of the story, if not to pass judgment, then merely to see how he pulled it off. Its really quite interesting how much time he put into making the hoax believeable. With no less work, he probably could have made it actually work like it was supposed to...
Don't worry, he knows what he's doing. He's a lawyer.
Unless we use Exeem to download a video of one.
First, the comment that its useless unless you're in the US is BS. The truth of the matter is that US policy generally has more far reaching effects than those of any other country in the world. Not only does the US export its culture on a grand scale, but many of its laws are reciprocated by other countries in the interest of trade.
Beyond this, your argument is just silly. You say Slashdot covers other countries, but what it covers is anything the editors want to cover. It just so happens that what they're most informed about, and what they want to cover, is US politics. If you've got a problem with that, send them an e-mail. Making angry and redundant posts won't help your cause. Take your inflammatory comments elsewhere.
Troll? I don't think so. I have to agree that the whole "US-Centric" complaint has gotten pretty old for me as well. Slashdot is run by Americans, so yes, thats what the political stories are going to focus on. The politics.slashdot.org color scheme is red white and blue with an American flag banner! Get over it!
If its really that insulting to you, you can take the political stories off your front page in your preferences.
The server actually belongs to the EECS (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science) department at the University of Michigan. You would definitely think they'd be geeky enough to have a decent server. I'm actually a student there and rely on that server for school. I actually ended up on Slashdot when I couldn't get the spec on a project because the server was down.
Yep, Slashdot is destroying productivity as never before.
So basically you're advocating that their job is to respond to a complaint by immediately forcing whoever the complaint is made upon to stop doing whatever was complained about? Thats an interesting approach. So if my competator sells a competing product line, I should file a complaint and have the Department of Homeland Security come shut them down without first performing even the most cursory research? Even if they were right, which in this case they obviously were NOT, they should be stopping infringing products well before they hit retail shelves.
Its true that Microsoft is spending a lot less to produce an XBox now than they did initially. They also now sell the XBox for significantly less money than they did initially, which leads me to believe that even if they are making money, they're not making much. I still assert that its a pretty safe bet that Microsoft doesn't want to be in the business of selling PCs for $150 (current retail for an XBox I believe), let alone $100.
They don't cost much more than $100 for the consumer, but thats because Microsoft is losing money selling them for that price. They rely on revenue from the games to recoop the cost. What Ballmer was talking about was a heavily government subsidized computer. He isn't interested in selling the hardware, only the stripped down version of XP to go with it.
The link isn't broken, slashdot just puts a space in a full URL like that. Find the %20 and remove it, and you get a working link for Windows XP for $145. $300 is right, but thats for both licenses.
Thats true, but in all honesty, it doesn't really take much these days to be visible to a satellite. If its visible to the naked eye from space thats a different story.