There has been some excellent advice on this thread (unusual for/. lately), so all I can offer to you is this.... If you looking to make a difference, keep your standards and make money, I can recommend another good book "The 7 habits of highly effective people" by Stephen Covey. It's about how to conduct your life, which in turn affects how to conduct your business. Especialy helpful for the inevitable dark times that will happen when growing a business.
What the MPAA and other 'official' organizations are doing is the same thing the US tried when it outlawed Alcohol. Driving the perpetrators underground and increasing their profit margins. Organized crime won't be stopped, just the occasional unlucky hacker.
The MPAA and others are guilty of underestimating peoples' curiosity. They are also guilty of stupidity for encouraging the use of such an easily broken code scheme. Now they want blame every one else for their mistakes.
I'm surprised production houses and artists haven't sued the MPAA, the RIAA and others for endorsing sloppy encryption techniques.
What a bunch of arrogant, self important idiots, all of them.
At the high prices Record companies and movie distributors charge, it's just too temptimg for criminals to resist getting in on the action.
The problems in Alambama and other southern states is the lawmakers are more afraid of the Clergy than the people who voted for them. Preachers and the few extremist who support them, regularily go on rampages and threaten to cause trouble for people if they don't co-operate. I wish that were an unfounded stereo-type, but it's not. One of the reasons I moved away.
Societies were male dominated long before "the big 3" came along. If your going to bitch, at least get your facts straight. Oh I forgot, lying is a central part of Marxist Ideology. Any means justifies the ends.
You know, it really is in-approriate to use a freedom of speach issue to promote your failed ideologies. I'm sure you will flame me, but you being a AC it doesn't count.
Unfortunately, there is no right to privacy listed in the Constitution. The issue is decided on a State by State basis. California leads the pack on this issue, but most Southern State governments are opposed or indifferent. (I am from Arkansas, and thanks to Slick/Sick Willy, have to live that down every day. Be a great day when he's been rightfully forgotten by the American people).
I for one would participate in a movement to add an amendment to the Constitution garaunteeing privacy. Any takers?
Could/. be the place where a major political movement starts? Would the geek community be able to get away from their CRTs long enough to make it happen? One can only hope.
Actually I am in favor of State taxes being applied and sent back to the place you live. With Technology, we should be able to have the money directly applied to your local economy/government, with a significant minority of the money being applied to very poor communities.
That would actually motivate communities to get people to move in and hopefully build good infrastructure. Think about it, communities in competition for citizens, all the great things they would have to do to keep them.
If not that, then a national net sales tax that is distributed directly back to the community you live in. Under no circumstances should the federal government be allowed to dip their greasy, corrupt hands in. (Yeah I know states can just as bad).
Tell the families of the Victims there will be no real justice, no closure. Tell them they will have the privilige of providing the killers with a safe, warm and clean place to sleep and three healthy meals a day for the rest of their life. Tell them the killers can get a college education at tax payers expense. Tell them they get free legal advice and can file law suits on a whim.
Tell them.
Tell the victims too. Whoops-- you can't. They're dead.
The vast majority of Christians are very opposed to Government control of the internet. They also realize the same freedoms that allow Pornography on the Internet, allows them to share their faith and beliefs without fear of persecution.
Most of the people claiming to represent the "fundamentalist christians" don't. Most people who are called "Fundamentalist" aren't. But the media can't deal with that, it requires too much effort.
I've been a long time Interbase/Delphi developer, and have been appalled at the amount of crap flying around. Here are few things to think about.
1. Inprise is a public company. They can't respond to rumors without it being considered official. So they are doing the right thing and waiting to make an official public announcement.
2. Interbase is profitable, not on all platforms, but it is profitable. Inprise sucks at marketing it, but they still manage to make money anyway.
I can see Inprise discontinuing development for platforms they aren't making any money on, but not on the others. That would make more sense than anything.
Since there was obviously some political things going on inside Borland (this also happened a couple of years ago, when some excellent talent left the company) the ex-employees probably don't have a real clue as to what is actually going to happen.
Lastly, Interbase hasn't gotten this much publicity in it's entire life,heh heheh... I think someone at Borland must be jumping for joy.
Nice to see there is someone else besides myself seeing through the crap. Interbase is profitable, they may drop it on certain platforms, but not WinNT or Linux. Too many developers are using/deploying it. Personally I hope the ex-employees get sued for breach of contract. My email box was overflowing with various FUD/Interbase crap. Had to setup a custom filter in Outlook to send it to the trash.
You're right all the future stuff is pretty out of date. But there is also the various country exibits at the back of the park. Disnyfied promos about each country, and a quaint restaurant with nationals from each country abound.
The best part about them is stopping by the Norway exibit. Why? Incrdibly beautiful Norwegian women!:) I was there about 3 months ago and ran into a 6 foot tall blond goddess. Unfortunately my wife was with me, so I had to keep the panting under control.
Apparantly there is some sort of a beauty contest among all the represented countries (for both men and women) Norwegian women are currently banned (for a short while)because they keep winning.
Just thought I would put a lighter touch on all this depressing discourse. It really is about people after all. (As I put on my flame proof suit).
Good point, but I thought what started it all were the rural Electricity acts enacted during the Roosevelt Administration. They form the legal basis for all the electrical co-ops.
On that point I was probably being unfair to Mr Katz. In those days, TVA was so infamous and controversial, that everybody probably refered to electricity coming to them as TVA.
Mr Katz is merely trying to create a stir without saying anything. Maybe it's alright to talk about Walt Disney even if you work there. But talking about him doesn't really reveal anything about Disney today. So the whole tech/tragedy thing he's writing about is just so much blow.
The failed vision thing? Who knows? Who cares... Disney was going down the tubes until Eisner and Katzenburg turned it around in the mid 80's.
You have an excellent point about the rides. But John Katz is doing a supposed 'bleeding edge tech article about Orlando'.
BTW, on your next visit, check out DR. Suess land at the Islands of Adventure (adjacent to Universal Studios). Like the rest of the park, full of color and beauty. Extremely well done. The Spiderman ride may be the most spectacular, but it is by no means the only thing worth seeing.
Maybe for Katz, but not the employee. Every Disney employee is under strict non-disclosure. Disney makes every attempt to control every last bit of information that is given to the public. Any contact/discussion with the public is carefully orchestrated and controlled. Remember earlier this year when a reporter at ABC tried to do a report on mechanical failures of rides at Disney? Disney shut it down (pun intended).
If they reviewed the security tapes, that 'Contact' would probably be out of a job among other things. Which leads to my suspicions that if in fact there was a meeting at of all places Epcot, then it was with Disneys' approval. Anonymous contact not withstanding.
Less clandestine, more like writers imagination (but hey, imagination is what Disney is all about:).
Probably not true. They took exceptional care when bringing the animals there. On the other hand, if they did die, Disney completely controls what information gets out, so it would be hush hush. Based on the various documentaries and stuff about the place, it is possible, but highley unlikely.
Did you hear this from a Disney employee, a regular person or an Animal Rights activist? Consider the source.
One last thing about your visit to Disney. Like anything else, it's what you make of it. Disney, Universal etc... are all about make believe and don't pretend to be real. Disney is about it's own culture. Universal(seperate from Disney) and MGM(part of the Disney parks) are about Movies and Hollywood. Apples and Oranges, both ejoyable.
Above all, considering the money you're about to spend:) please just relax and enjoy yourself.
I know this will probably get me flamed to hell.. but there is something a little dishonest about this article.
1. Yes there are lots of survellence cameras in Disney parks. Including right where John and his anonymous friend sat, so it will be relatively easy to check back and see who talked (faded yankee baseball caps are easy to spot). That being true, I wonder if the person he supposedly met had official blessing from Disney? There are plenty places outside of Disney World where they could have met without fear of being watched. (like tens of thousands of hotel rooms, lots of undeveloped forest....)
2. The TVA is in Tennesee, not Texas. There is a whole state and a really big river between them (Arkansas, and the Mississippi).
Meeting in Disney would be like meeting with a mole in the middle of the CIA HQ (or the Kremlin). It's considered exceptionally stupid and riskey.
As far as Disneys special town for employees. It is generally considered a complete failure. The Home Owner association rules are nothing short or Orwellian, the promise of high speed access to the Internet consists of slow dial up modems (maybe they've improved that, but I haven't heard anything). The shops and stores are so expensive that most people go to nearby discount centers for the goods. The quality of construction is suspect because of the finincial problems of the builders... I could go on, but none of this is news down in here in FL.
More importantly, Disney is not the only High Tech center in Orlando. Universal studios has excellent VR and 3D based entertainment. Disney has nothing, and I mean nothing to match the new Spiderman ride at Islands of Adventure. Even the Back to the Future ride, Terminator 3D and Twister, are far ahead of anything at Disney, with the exception of the 3D bug show at the Tree of Life in the Animal Kingdom park.
There is also DisneyQuest at the Downtown Disney park. There they have some excellent VR stuff in the way of Games and interactivity,even a build your own virtual rollercoaster. Though it is not ahead of other similar complexes around the country, it's worth the $25.00 price of admission. I am very surprised your 'contact' at Epcot didn't mention the place.
There is a large and growing tech/entertainment population in Orlando, much of it outside the confines of the Magic Kingdom. So Mr. Katz, if you really want to do a tech piece on Orlando, get rid of your Mouse cap, and open your eyes.
And no, I do not work for Universal, Disney, or any other company in or around Orlando. This article simply doesn't seem genuine, thats all.
One last thing, I am not anti-Disney, nor anti- anything else. I like taking a vacation where I can count on the staff to be professional, courteous and the rooms clean and well maintained.
Just think, add some touch screen tech, and you could replace a whole room of analog sound equipment, have sliders, buttons, what not, hooked right up to you high end sound card enhanced computer.
Better yet, write a Star Trek skins wrapper around Net Meeting , or any other meeting software, and have a ball.
I have to admit, this whole coppermine release thing smells of FUD against AMD, but....
Having a Socket 370 version would finally get them into Wintel based laptops, which are basically overpriced celerons at the moment. Another nice thing, using a socket 370 version, you could make some very small/slim but powerful Linux servers.
This sounds exactly what I am looking for. The local Electronic Stores here in FL aren't carrying them. Do you know of any net based stores selling them?
Katz wasn't supporting or not supporting Singers viewpoint. He thinks it is wrong to have your life put into danger simply because you say things that piss people off. He is correct about that. He correctly pointed out that many of the politically ambitous are simply trying to get mileage out of Singers controversial view points. That many cease to listen right at the moment their undeserved self serving,self-rightous rage kicks in.
Personally I disagree with Singers proposition and those who support him. Referencing the value of human life in such monetary terms is IMHO inhuman. One of the signs of a civilized society is the innate high value it places on all human life, independent of what the life will or won't contribute to society.
Just to re-inforce Katz's point...... We really aren't a free country. Just try to find and rent an unrated directors cut of a movie at Viacoms' Blockbuster video (the nations largest video chain). Do to pressure from highly motivated conservative extremist groups and individuals, they stopped purchasing them over 6 years ago. They, not the US government, have effectivly censored artistic freedom with their tremendous buying power.
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There has been some excellent advice on this thread (unusual for /. lately), so all I can offer to you is this....
If you looking to make a difference, keep your standards and make money, I can recommend another good book "The 7 habits of highly effective people" by Stephen Covey. It's about how to conduct your life, which in turn affects how to conduct your business. Especialy helpful for the inevitable dark times that will happen when growing a business.
Good luck and success.
What the MPAA and other 'official' organizations are doing is the same thing the US tried when it outlawed Alcohol. Driving the perpetrators underground and increasing their profit margins. Organized crime won't be stopped, just the occasional unlucky hacker.
The MPAA and others are guilty of underestimating peoples' curiosity. They are also guilty of stupidity for encouraging the use of such an easily broken code scheme. Now they want blame every one else for their mistakes.
I'm surprised production houses and artists haven't sued the MPAA, the RIAA and others for endorsing sloppy encryption techniques.
What a bunch of arrogant, self important idiots, all of them.
At the high prices Record companies and movie distributors charge, it's just too temptimg for criminals to resist getting in on the action.
The problems in Alambama and other southern states is the lawmakers are more afraid of the Clergy than the people who voted for them. Preachers and the few extremist who support them, regularily go on rampages and threaten to cause trouble for people if they don't co-operate. I wish that were an unfounded stereo-type, but it's not. One of the reasons I moved away.
Societies were male dominated long before "the big 3" came along. If your going to bitch, at least get your facts straight. Oh I forgot, lying is a central part of Marxist Ideology. Any means justifies the ends.
You know, it really is in-approriate to use a freedom of speach issue to promote your failed ideologies. I'm sure you will flame me, but you being a AC it doesn't count.
Unfortunately, there is no right to privacy listed in the Constitution. The issue is decided on a State by State basis. California leads the pack on this issue, but most Southern State governments are opposed or indifferent. (I am from Arkansas, and thanks to Slick/Sick Willy, have to live that down every day. Be a great day when he's been rightfully forgotten by the American people).
/. be the place where a major political movement starts? Would the geek community be able to get away from their CRTs long enough to make it happen? One can only hope.
I for one would participate in a movement to add an amendment to the Constitution garaunteeing privacy. Any takers?
Could
Actually I am in favor of State taxes being applied and sent back to the place you live. With Technology, we should be able to have the money directly applied to your local economy/government, with a significant minority of the money being applied to very poor communities.
That would actually motivate communities to get people to move in and hopefully build good infrastructure. Think about it, communities in competition for citizens, all the great things they would have to do to keep them.
If not that, then a national net sales tax that is distributed directly back to the community you live in. Under no circumstances should the federal government be allowed to dip their greasy, corrupt hands in. (Yeah I know states can just as bad).
I agree, when he said that, he lost my vote. The libertarians are starting to look better, though I don't think they would make a real difference.
Tell the families of the Victims there will be no real justice, no closure. Tell them they will have the privilige of providing the killers with a safe, warm and clean place to sleep and three healthy meals a day for the rest of their life. Tell them the killers can get a college education at tax payers expense. Tell them they get free legal advice and can file law suits on a whim.
Tell them.
Tell the victims too.
Whoops-- you can't. They're dead.
The vast majority of Christians are very opposed to Government control of the internet. They also realize the same freedoms that allow Pornography on the Internet, allows them to share their faith and beliefs without fear of persecution.
Most of the people claiming to represent the "fundamentalist christians" don't. Most people who are called "Fundamentalist" aren't. But the media can't deal with that, it requires too much effort.
I've been a long time Interbase/Delphi developer, and have been appalled at the amount of crap flying around. Here are few things to think about.
1. Inprise is a public company. They can't respond to rumors without it being considered official. So they are doing the right thing and waiting to make an official public announcement.
2. Interbase is profitable, not on all platforms, but it is profitable. Inprise sucks at marketing it, but they still manage to make money anyway.
I can see Inprise discontinuing development for platforms they aren't making any money on, but not on the others. That would make more sense than anything.
Since there was obviously some political things going on inside Borland (this also happened a couple of years ago, when some excellent talent left the company) the ex-employees probably don't have a real clue as to what is actually going to happen.
Lastly, Interbase hasn't gotten this much publicity in it's entire life,heh heheh... I think someone at Borland must be jumping for joy.
Nice to see there is someone else besides myself seeing through the crap. Interbase is profitable, they may drop it on certain platforms, but not WinNT or Linux. Too many developers are using/deploying it. Personally I hope the ex-employees get sued for breach of contract. My email box was overflowing with various FUD/Interbase crap. Had to setup a custom filter in Outlook to send it to the trash.
You're right all the future stuff is pretty out of date. But there is also the various country exibits at the back of the park. Disnyfied promos about each country, and a quaint restaurant with nationals from each country abound.
:) I was there about 3 months ago and ran into a 6 foot tall blond goddess. Unfortunately my wife was with me, so I had to keep the panting under control.
The best part about them is stopping by the Norway exibit. Why? Incrdibly beautiful Norwegian women!
Apparantly there is some sort of a beauty contest among all the represented countries (for both men and women) Norwegian women are currently banned (for a short while)because they keep winning.
Just thought I would put a lighter touch on all this depressing discourse. It really is about people after all.
(As I put on my flame proof suit).
Good point, but I thought what started it all were the rural Electricity acts enacted during the Roosevelt Administration. They form the legal basis for all the electrical co-ops.
On that point I was probably being unfair to Mr Katz. In those days, TVA was so infamous and controversial, that everybody probably refered to electricity coming to them as TVA.
Mr Katz is merely trying to create a stir without saying anything. Maybe it's alright to talk about Walt Disney even if you work there. But talking about him doesn't really reveal anything about Disney today. So the whole tech/tragedy thing he's writing about is just so much blow.
The failed vision thing? Who knows? Who cares... Disney was going down the tubes until Eisner and Katzenburg turned it around in the mid 80's.
You have an excellent point about the rides. But John Katz is doing a supposed 'bleeding edge tech article about Orlando'.
BTW, on your next visit, check out DR. Suess land at the Islands of Adventure (adjacent to Universal Studios). Like the rest of the park, full of color and beauty. Extremely well done. The Spiderman ride may be the most spectacular, but it is by no means the only thing worth seeing.
Maybe for Katz, but not the employee. Every Disney employee is under strict non-disclosure. Disney makes every attempt to control every last bit of information that is given to the public.
:).
Any contact/discussion with the public is carefully orchestrated and controlled. Remember earlier this year when a reporter at ABC tried to do a report on mechanical failures of rides at Disney? Disney shut it down (pun intended).
If they reviewed the security tapes, that 'Contact' would probably be out of a job among other things. Which leads to my suspicions that if in fact there was a meeting at of all places Epcot, then it was with Disneys' approval.
Anonymous contact not withstanding.
Less clandestine, more like writers imagination (but hey, imagination is what Disney is all about
Probably not true. They took exceptional care when bringing the animals there. On the other hand, if they did die, Disney completely controls what information gets out, so it would be hush hush. Based on the various documentaries and stuff about the place, it is possible, but highley unlikely.
Did you hear this from a Disney employee, a regular person or an Animal Rights activist? Consider the source.
One last thing about your visit to Disney. Like anything else, it's what you make of it. Disney, Universal etc... are all about make believe and don't pretend to be real. Disney is about it's own culture. Universal(seperate from Disney) and MGM(part of the Disney parks) are about Movies and Hollywood. Apples and Oranges, both ejoyable.
Above all, considering the money you're about to spend:) please just relax and enjoy yourself.
I know this will probably get me flamed to hell..
,even a build your own virtual rollercoaster. Though it is not ahead of other similar complexes around the country, it's worth the $25.00 price of admission. I am very surprised your 'contact' at Epcot didn't mention the place.
but there is something a little dishonest about this article.
1. Yes there are lots of survellence cameras in Disney parks. Including right where John and his anonymous friend sat, so it will be relatively easy to check back and see who talked (faded yankee baseball caps are easy to spot). That being true, I wonder if the person he supposedly met had official blessing from Disney? There are plenty places outside of Disney World where they could have met without fear of being watched. (like tens of thousands of hotel rooms, lots of undeveloped forest....)
2. The TVA is in Tennesee, not Texas. There is a whole state and a really big river between them (Arkansas, and the Mississippi).
Meeting in Disney would be like meeting with a mole in the middle of the CIA HQ (or the Kremlin). It's considered exceptionally stupid and riskey.
As far as Disneys special town for employees. It is generally considered a complete failure. The Home Owner association rules are nothing short or Orwellian, the promise of high speed access to the Internet consists of slow dial up modems (maybe they've improved that, but I haven't heard anything). The shops and stores are so expensive that most people go to nearby discount centers for the goods. The quality of construction is suspect because of the finincial problems of the builders... I could go on, but none of this is news down in here in FL.
More importantly, Disney is not the only High Tech center in Orlando. Universal studios has excellent VR and 3D based entertainment. Disney has nothing, and I mean nothing to match the new Spiderman ride at Islands of Adventure. Even the Back to the Future ride, Terminator 3D and Twister, are far ahead of anything at Disney, with the exception of the 3D bug show at the Tree of Life in the Animal Kingdom park.
There is also DisneyQuest at the Downtown Disney park. There they have some excellent VR stuff in the way of Games and interactivity
There is a large and growing tech/entertainment population in Orlando, much of it outside the confines of the Magic Kingdom. So Mr. Katz, if you really want to do a tech piece on Orlando, get rid of your Mouse cap, and open your eyes.
And no, I do not work for Universal, Disney, or any other company in or around Orlando. This article simply doesn't seem genuine, thats all.
One last thing, I am not anti-Disney, nor anti- anything else. I like taking a vacation where I can count on the staff to be professional, courteous and the rooms clean and well maintained.
The article just doesn't add up.
Just think, add some touch screen tech, and you could replace a whole room of analog sound equipment, have sliders, buttons, what not, hooked right up to you high end sound card enhanced computer.
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Better yet, write a Star Trek skins wrapper around Net Meeting , or any other meeting software, and have a ball.
Just my
Me too. I thought it looked familiar. How lame. And to avoid getting into trouble the loser doesn't even have the courage to refer to a real person.
Cetainly more than $1000.00 per developer if you had actually known what you were talking about.
Enterprise Edition of MS Visual Studio > $2500.00 US.
Delphi Client/Server version > $1500.00 US
BTW, thats per developer pricing. And yes there are cheaper versions (less tools/features) of each.
Neither price includes long term support, thats extra, a lot extra.
might get some discounts for large purchases at a very large organization. Small ISVs like most of us have to pay up for the latest and greatest.
I have to admit, this whole coppermine release thing smells of FUD against AMD, but....
Having a Socket 370 version would finally get them into Wintel based laptops, which are basically overpriced celerons at the moment. Another nice thing, using a socket 370 version, you could make some very small/slim but powerful Linux servers.
Just a thought.
On their developers pages they have a link to the GATOS project.
This sounds exactly what I am looking for. The local Electronic Stores here in FL aren't carrying them. Do you know of any net based stores selling them?
Katz wasn't supporting or not supporting Singers viewpoint. He thinks it is wrong to have your life put into danger simply because you say things that piss people off. He is correct about that. He correctly pointed out that many of the politically ambitous are simply trying to get mileage out of Singers controversial view points. That many cease to listen right at the moment their undeserved self serving,self-rightous rage kicks in.
Personally I disagree with Singers proposition and those who support him. Referencing the value of human life in such monetary terms is IMHO inhuman. One of the signs of a civilized society is the innate high value it places on all human life, independent of what the life will or won't contribute to society.
Just to re-inforce Katz's point......
We really aren't a free country. Just try to find and rent an unrated directors cut of a movie at Viacoms' Blockbuster video (the nations largest video chain). Do to pressure from highly motivated conservative extremist groups and individuals, they stopped purchasing them over 6 years ago. They, not the US government, have effectivly censored artistic freedom with their tremendous buying power.