but their margins on Office and Windows are like 85%!!! That means HOW much of Microsoft's business is simply abusing their monopoly money to put other people out of work? They don't post a DIVIDEND on a regular basis and their stock is flat. In short the days of wild growth and paying investors with somebody else's money are over and Bill and Steve need to wake up to that. They could post MORE profit to the stock holders if they started cashing out and stopped trying to hijack everybody else. Why aren't the stockholders wanting their money like good capitalists? That's the real question.
that would be the case if Microsoft hit their dates and made them meaningful for the actual hardware vendors.. but Microsoft missed Christmas, the biggest hardware buying season and now something 3 months old requires patching to run the new OS announced a year before Christmas '06. Customers will only accept "just buy a new one" so much.. if more people liked that model, Apple would be doing better!
but that's the point, Japan and Taiwan are focused on making things to sell... MAKING things to sell... OUR business have moved the manufacturing, the bread and butter money, overseas leaving nothing for the common man do contribute. The Japanese and Taiwanese both expect high marks and contribution from their low level employees almost on par with management. Almost all American businesses I've been in are exactly the opposite... do what you're told even if it's totally stupid and non-efficient.
R&D is not about having separate guys in a room "researching" it's a state of mind that you look for better ways to do things and encourage everybody in your business to do the same. Look at companies like Honda that encourage anybody in the company to submit ideas to the invention competitions. Companies like Bell Labs and Xerox and early HP made wide-eyed idealism a core of their business. The only company close to that now days is Google. I'm not saying every company should fund the next Parc labs, but many companies leaders in the US loath the idea that the "hourly" guys are anything accept labor to be used up. The bean counters are totally in charge and if they don't recognize the idea as a bean they violently reject it and the employee.
most universities interpret that "not putting the work" originally if you do the class/assignment again, or to reuse the work in a different class, is equal to plagiarism because you didn't do the work FOR the class... DOING the work is the requirement, not the results of doing the work. It's a weird difference between the real world and the academic world.
as a side note, the GPL is designed with much the same idea in mind. Legally, the work is free to use, but the way the GPL is worded is designed to require academic style credit for any code you reuse as opposed to claiming the work as your own.
the policies are reasonable from the point of view that cities like New York with 10 million people and NO farmland are reliant on decisions made in Iowa by a few thousand people for their continued food. During the depression the govt didn't pay attention to where the food was coming from and many farmers went out of business, lost whole years worth of crops and people in the cities starved. So the answer is to make sure those farmers grow as much as they can so if anything goes wrong there's extra to cover the loss... What to do with the EXTRA is a political decision. Well meaning people would love to to send it overseas to feed the starving masses, but other like H1Bs here, those countries don't want to put their own farmers out of business either for the same reasons we subsidize our farmers, or they have evil dictators that would use the food to feed their armies and kill all the citizens. To be blunt, unless you farm about 100 acres by yourself with animal labor with crops and animals, you don't physically support yourself if a crisis happens. You're totally reliant on somebody else to feed you and merely "paying" for the food doesn't count.
and that matters exactly how much compared to all the oil, gas and coal we use? Same with nuclear power.. it just doesn't add up. Eventually we have to make due with simply less.
but it IS of interest if you're a foreign country deciding weather the country you are sending your citizen to is going to get a fair trial that would be reasonable under your laws. That's what extradition is all about. In the UK the guy would probably get 1 year in prison and 5 probation or something... this prosecutor is clearly asking for considerably more than that.. saying things like they'll "fry" the suspect would also lead the UK to believe that their citizen will not get a FAIR trail as well as too harsh a punishment. If they believe the deck is stacked too unfairly against their man, they may sentence him themselves and tell the US to sod off. It's not about if what the guy says is legal in the USA or not... it's about whether the lawyers for the defense in the UK can use that to disqualify the extradition... in sort the DA is ruining his case due to lack of professionalism.
wrong, we're talking the total amount the company pays to have you there. That's what's of interest to the bean counters. How much is the total cost of having an employee in the chair... wages are only about half the cost to the company. In most good manufacturing shops (not sweatshops), burden (the amount of non-labor costs) is typically over 100% of wages. For instance most health insurance premiums run about $1500/month per employee as well as Unemployment insurance, Workman's comp, liability, etc... plus the matching for taxes on the money they pay you, as well as costs like office space, computers & licenses. Especially for productivity improvements, minor improvements such as a second monitor are paid one time and may only may YOU 5% more efficient... BUT if you can find 4-5 of those and not have to find another employ and pay all the non-direct costs you save a bundle.
for seconds, all the comm badges are tied to the universal translator implanted early on. So we're not really hearing them talk "into" the badge, that's TV land. Think a really small bluetooh transmitter...heck we're already there. The comm badge is just a buttonless cell phone, probably with peer to peer calling as well... iPhone should be able to do that in June. Satillite ground to space phones have been around for years. See, it's not that hard!!!
when you've completed a valid series of commands and stopped talking. Computers in 2200 would have enough HP to tell not just being talked to, but also the focus of the user... i.e. when you're not talking to it anymore.
Yes in metropolis that was the point, the people were slaves to the machine... watch somebody orgnize emails or files with microsoft outlook sometime... you have to work the mouse like all get out, traning is short on smarts.
On the other hand the enrichment plants in Blue Ridge were run much like that during WW2 pre-industrial controls. They literally had people monitoring gages and adjusting dials to keep the process in spec... crazy stuff.
A trade secret is a form of employee trust, not IP. Once the cat is out of the bag, it's fair game. Most laws deal with attempts to GET the cat out... punishment for companies telling other companies secrets, employees selling private info to other companies, that kind of thing. If you just figure it out, or the data is left open, there's nothing to be done about it.
Example... Samba reverse engineers the SMB protocol... they have lots of documents, but they figured it out without reverse engineering any actual windows copyrighted programs... so it's legal. Look at the recent HD DVD keys being "liberated", again, if an employee sold that they would go to jail, but if you simply find it out thru bad encryption or some other method on hardware you own it's fair game. That's also why the US passed the DMCA. Because the keys are only "secret" they added a law that makes breaking a "secret" lock punishable when it wouldn't normally be.
Frankly at this point the EU needs to lock up some Microsoft managers for Contempt until the documentation is approved... it will be fun to see MS sell their own out instead of comply with the law!!
The problem is that getting any other network structure INTO windows requires even more IP problems than simply making your stuff operate with it. Getting file systems and network systems into Windows requires Kernel level access, Microsoft won't grant ANYBODY for free, the license to LOOK costs upwards of $100k. Yes, you can add file systems to windows, but they act like "internet resources" and Windows programs can't use them to actually run programs from... Windows entire system knows ONLY about Windows... there's limits to what you can bolt on.. even for free. It's a shame because I'd love to see driver pack for EXT3, Reiser, NFS, Real Kerberos Directory, etc. but it can't ever happen. The legal hurtles are far higher than learning how to just "talk" to the windows boxes.
Copyrights, Patents, and other "IP" protection pieces of paoer exist only by the will of the state... That was from the Supreme Court when Lessing tried to reign in the constant upping of the limits. (yes, not related to EU law... but most/.rs are in the US) So technically it is entirely fair game when a company breaks the law to pull it's copyright/patent/trademark protections as punishment!
With that in mind... the EU has requested enough info for other computers to interoperate with windows. What they have repeatedly stated is for enough APIs to be released so Windows file servers can be "black box" on the network and other services can use them. They want the specs for the "wire" into the server. Microsoft is acting like a stalling child here. They keep trying to present all sorts of Windows Server internals that NOBODY is asking for and couldn't use anyway. The EU could do all sorts of other things, but what they are asking is by far the most legally enforceable, minimally precedent setting, thing to ask for. They are not asking for 1 single line of Microsoft code, what they are asking for is instructions how the server with their files acts. Personally, I think the Novell deal (when Microsoft almost settled with the EU) was an attempt to subvert the Samba project by granting them a backdoor to all these restrictions and then haveing novell "agree" that Samba was full of Microsoft IP so nobody else could use it. The key samba developers LEFT Novell before the work was tainted by the "agreement" so now the EU court is back asking for the proper documentation...heck projects like Samba have 75% of what they need reverse engineered, even Microsoft has had to use Samba's documentation because it is better than what the actual MS programmers have!!!
Another poster mentioned that the case should attack Microsoft for what gains they made illegally... opening the file format costs Microsoft LOCK-IN! It's a small amount of money to make the specs... far less than the $400 M the fines are up to, but they won't do it... it removes a cog from their monopoly... which is why it MUST be made to happen!!!!!
Everybody misses WHY we do term papers. Perhaps it's time to find something that does the job better. The original idea was to make you look up a bunch of hard to find facts so that DOING the paper was learning about libraries and such. The actual material was less important to the class.. sort of a "rub off on you" kind of thing. Now that we have Google, the type of "research" to find meaningless common facts is useless... you can get more facts in a 30 second search.
So what IS the point of term papers now that information is so easy to get? To learn more in depth about a topic important to the class? If that's the case, most term papers I ever did in school fail mierably. The projects were largely outside the topics of class and the teacher never really brought the papers content into class discussion or curriculum. Perhaps they need to move the idea of Thesis down to lower levels of education.. but that takes lots of re-training on the part of teachers to rework their classes into DIALOG instead of lecture.... and THAT is the key change in my opinion. For education to remain relevant it has to be about discussion and actually improving the student's ability to reason.. that's been lost from all but master's programs for decades now. Especially at big universities, they don't like trade schools that don't do enough "liberal arts" yet they fill their lower classes with things like term papers that have no real learning value at all. If information is free, what are they selling now?
But the person making the threat IS somebody connected to the case... somebody with legal, govt granted power. The comment alone is enough to get him removed from the case for conflict of interest.. it's entirely possible their govt could consider an outright threat to be indication that the trial will not be fair and the punishment considered "cruel and unusual" under their country's laws.
The US govt doesn't stand up for it's citizens.. how'd you like a cop to threaten to "f'n kill you" witha drawn weapon when you were stopped for a simple speeding ticket. It's the same thing here, Only the UK takes it's people seriously. There's no law on any books that would allow a prosecutor to even ask a court for a person to "fry" for computer tresspass.. being as this was an offical agent, under press conference, JEST is not an option.. he was threatening illegal execution of the prisoner. period. American cops and prosecutors are in need of a harsh lesson in professionalism. They have the law on their side, there's no need for idle, illegal threats.
Ahh, but apple CAN make that argument!!! Apple is in the top five music retailers... right behind Walmart and Target... Apple and iTunes is NOT trivial anymore... Remember when Walmart would dictate album art and such... Apple is about to have even MORE power than that!!
you do realize you don't know what your talking about... Apple has a USB AC adapter that works with all their ipods...as do several other companies. There's nothing special about it.. it powers just like a USB port on the computer. Sounds like somebody wants to do that for ALL USB devices which would be a good thing. Bonus points if they make BOTH ports standard shape and data transfer to not confuse users, but merely require 2 for power purposes. I have a pocket hard drive that does that. It requires 2 USB ports to get under the per-port power restrictions. Some computers have a little extra juice to need only 1, but it's meet to run with 2.
but the copies would still have to be rented. That means rental stores would buy more DVDs to keep up demand. If a company like Apple was smart they'd add the feature to rip DVDs but add the standard DRM and 90% of people wouldn't care.. or share them online!!! That's the key. It would put a serious damper on the social implications of downloading stuff online. Right now, copying DVDs is forbidden.. even downloading DeCSS is illegal.. what's the point in buying the DVD if they've already called you a pirate if you wanted to stream to Apple TV. Heck, even if they hack AppleTV you still can't LEGALLY plug in DVD drive and play the actual disc. A person won't give away something they've paid for... even if they rented it.
on top of that there was a suit quite a while ago that put the rental money into pockets of the MPAA anyway as payment for the "extra" viewings...
this is exactly what Apple is waiting for!!!! If it got legal to rip DVDs iTunes and iTV would wipe the floor overnight. After all, like these guys, apple can add the standard MPAA-approved "protection" measures to the rips and most people would still love it. like other posters said, if you could load up your DVD to your PC, view it on the Apple TV it would sell gagillions. Most people would live with Apple's 5 PC + all the ipods and appleTVs you can buy limits. Like other posters said, having the DVD would be a feature, sure the rental market would boom, but even then, those stores are BUYING DVDs in order to meet demand for renting so you can't loose...they could even bump the price of DVDs up a little to compensate. That said, there's a new DVD copy protection that's nasty...the discs actually crash my dvd recorder due to the PC-type drive, so it may be getting harder anyway.
exactly, in the US and the EU the govt pays farmers to not grow food to allow their land to recover and pays farmers to enter land management where they grow what makes their land produce best and not necessarily what's selling on the market. Many people don't know large parts of the US have been in drought conditions for 5 years... in my own county the corn only grows at half what it used to due to lack of rain. But we don't go hungry because there's extra grown in spite of what the market may bear.. it's that important that people don't STARVE.
That said, now that farmers might actually have a CASH crop and end the govt subsidies, people don't want to pay fair prices for food... funny how "free market" raiders don't like when another industry can lock up some profits at their expense. It does seem "wasteful" to use the food crop for fuel, but poverty and hunger are not due to lack of food like Casto and others would like to think... we ship more than enough food to the starving nations to feed them, their leaders sell it or burn it instead of helping the people... the GOVTS simply don't care about other people. We grow lots of crops to not use expressly for food that corn can be used for both food and fuel is a good thing! Like how soy can be used for all sorts of things.
Frankly, we need to get more "eco-friendly" all life comes from the Sun... even coal and oil were once vast herds of dinosaurs and lush forests before being buried by massive amounts of earth being flipped over... last I checked we're not making anymore dinosaurs for oil anymore. If we can get slightly less power from a plant without waiting the thousands of years to make oil we should go for it.
plagiarism is turning in research work that is not original for the assignment. When you turn in your own paper again, it's not original work for THAT assignment. This petty thing about ownership has nothing to do with it. it's a ego-building power grab by school management.
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but their margins on Office and Windows are like 85%!!! That means HOW much of Microsoft's business is simply abusing their monopoly money to put other people out of work? They don't post a DIVIDEND on a regular basis and their stock is flat. In short the days of wild growth and paying investors with somebody else's money are over and Bill and Steve need to wake up to that. They could post MORE profit to the stock holders if they started cashing out and stopped trying to hijack everybody else. Why aren't the stockholders wanting their money like good capitalists? That's the real question.
we're over the hump so to speak... familiarity breeds contempt is what we're looking for, and M$ has it in spades.
that would be the case if Microsoft hit their dates and made them meaningful for the actual hardware vendors.. but Microsoft missed Christmas, the biggest hardware buying season and now something 3 months old requires patching to run the new OS announced a year before Christmas '06. Customers will only accept "just buy a new one" so much.. if more people liked that model, Apple would be doing better!
R&D is not about having separate guys in a room "researching" it's a state of mind that you look for better ways to do things and encourage everybody in your business to do the same. Look at companies like Honda that encourage anybody in the company to submit ideas to the invention competitions. Companies like Bell Labs and Xerox and early HP made wide-eyed idealism a core of their business. The only company close to that now days is Google. I'm not saying every company should fund the next Parc labs, but many companies leaders in the US loath the idea that the "hourly" guys are anything accept labor to be used up. The bean counters are totally in charge and if they don't recognize the idea as a bean they violently reject it and the employee.
as a side note, the GPL is designed with much the same idea in mind. Legally, the work is free to use, but the way the GPL is worded is designed to require academic style credit for any code you reuse as opposed to claiming the work as your own.
the policies are reasonable from the point of view that cities like New York with 10 million people and NO farmland are reliant on decisions made in Iowa by a few thousand people for their continued food. During the depression the govt didn't pay attention to where the food was coming from and many farmers went out of business, lost whole years worth of crops and people in the cities starved. So the answer is to make sure those farmers grow as much as they can so if anything goes wrong there's extra to cover the loss... What to do with the EXTRA is a political decision. Well meaning people would love to to send it overseas to feed the starving masses, but other like H1Bs here, those countries don't want to put their own farmers out of business either for the same reasons we subsidize our farmers, or they have evil dictators that would use the food to feed their armies and kill all the citizens. To be blunt, unless you farm about 100 acres by yourself with animal labor with crops and animals, you don't physically support yourself if a crisis happens. You're totally reliant on somebody else to feed you and merely "paying" for the food doesn't count.
and that matters exactly how much compared to all the oil, gas and coal we use? Same with nuclear power.. it just doesn't add up. Eventually we have to make due with simply less.
but it IS of interest if you're a foreign country deciding weather the country you are sending your citizen to is going to get a fair trial that would be reasonable under your laws. That's what extradition is all about. In the UK the guy would probably get 1 year in prison and 5 probation or something... this prosecutor is clearly asking for considerably more than that.. saying things like they'll "fry" the suspect would also lead the UK to believe that their citizen will not get a FAIR trail as well as too harsh a punishment. If they believe the deck is stacked too unfairly against their man, they may sentence him themselves and tell the US to sod off. It's not about if what the guy says is legal in the USA or not... it's about whether the lawyers for the defense in the UK can use that to disqualify the extradition... in sort the DA is ruining his case due to lack of professionalism.
wrong, we're talking the total amount the company pays to have you there. That's what's of interest to the bean counters. How much is the total cost of having an employee in the chair... wages are only about half the cost to the company. In most good manufacturing shops (not sweatshops), burden (the amount of non-labor costs) is typically over 100% of wages. For instance most health insurance premiums run about $1500/month per employee as well as Unemployment insurance, Workman's comp, liability, etc... plus the matching for taxes on the money they pay you, as well as costs like office space, computers & licenses. Especially for productivity improvements, minor improvements such as a second monitor are paid one time and may only may YOU 5% more efficient... BUT if you can find 4-5 of those and not have to find another employ and pay all the non-direct costs you save a bundle.
for seconds, all the comm badges are tied to the universal translator implanted early on. So we're not really hearing them talk "into" the badge, that's TV land. Think a really small bluetooh transmitter...heck we're already there. The comm badge is just a buttonless cell phone, probably with peer to peer calling as well ... iPhone should be able to do that in June. Satillite ground to space phones have been around for years. See, it's not that hard!!!
when you've completed a valid series of commands and stopped talking. Computers in 2200 would have enough HP to tell not just being talked to, but also the focus of the user... i.e. when you're not talking to it anymore.
On the other hand the enrichment plants in Blue Ridge were run much like that during WW2 pre-industrial controls. They literally had people monitoring gages and adjusting dials to keep the process in spec... crazy stuff.
Mac pro can be configured from Apple to run 8 30 inchers.
Example... Samba reverse engineers the SMB protocol... they have lots of documents, but they figured it out without reverse engineering any actual windows copyrighted programs... so it's legal. Look at the recent HD DVD keys being "liberated", again, if an employee sold that they would go to jail, but if you simply find it out thru bad encryption or some other method on hardware you own it's fair game. That's also why the US passed the DMCA. Because the keys are only "secret" they added a law that makes breaking a "secret" lock punishable when it wouldn't normally be.
Frankly at this point the EU needs to lock up some Microsoft managers for Contempt until the documentation is approved... it will be fun to see MS sell their own out instead of comply with the law!!
The problem is that getting any other network structure INTO windows requires even more IP problems than simply making your stuff operate with it. Getting file systems and network systems into Windows requires Kernel level access, Microsoft won't grant ANYBODY for free, the license to LOOK costs upwards of $100k. Yes, you can add file systems to windows, but they act like "internet resources" and Windows programs can't use them to actually run programs from... Windows entire system knows ONLY about Windows... there's limits to what you can bolt on.. even for free. It's a shame because I'd love to see driver pack for EXT3, Reiser, NFS, Real Kerberos Directory, etc. but it can't ever happen. The legal hurtles are far higher than learning how to just "talk" to the windows boxes.
With that in mind... the EU has requested enough info for other computers to interoperate with windows. What they have repeatedly stated is for enough APIs to be released so Windows file servers can be "black box" on the network and other services can use them. They want the specs for the "wire" into the server. Microsoft is acting like a stalling child here. They keep trying to present all sorts of Windows Server internals that NOBODY is asking for and couldn't use anyway. The EU could do all sorts of other things, but what they are asking is by far the most legally enforceable, minimally precedent setting, thing to ask for. They are not asking for 1 single line of Microsoft code, what they are asking for is instructions how the server with their files acts. Personally, I think the Novell deal (when Microsoft almost settled with the EU) was an attempt to subvert the Samba project by granting them a backdoor to all these restrictions and then haveing novell "agree" that Samba was full of Microsoft IP so nobody else could use it. The key samba developers LEFT Novell before the work was tainted by the "agreement" so now the EU court is back asking for the proper documentation...heck projects like Samba have 75% of what they need reverse engineered, even Microsoft has had to use Samba's documentation because it is better than what the actual MS programmers have!!!
Another poster mentioned that the case should attack Microsoft for what gains they made illegally... opening the file format costs Microsoft LOCK-IN! It's a small amount of money to make the specs... far less than the $400 M the fines are up to, but they won't do it... it removes a cog from their monopoly... which is why it MUST be made to happen!!!!!
So what IS the point of term papers now that information is so easy to get? To learn more in depth about a topic important to the class? If that's the case, most term papers I ever did in school fail mierably. The projects were largely outside the topics of class and the teacher never really brought the papers content into class discussion or curriculum. Perhaps they need to move the idea of Thesis down to lower levels of education.. but that takes lots of re-training on the part of teachers to rework their classes into DIALOG instead of lecture.... and THAT is the key change in my opinion. For education to remain relevant it has to be about discussion and actually improving the student's ability to reason.. that's been lost from all but master's programs for decades now. Especially at big universities, they don't like trade schools that don't do enough "liberal arts" yet they fill their lower classes with things like term papers that have no real learning value at all. If information is free, what are they selling now?
The US govt doesn't stand up for it's citizens.. how'd you like a cop to threaten to "f'n kill you" witha drawn weapon when you were stopped for a simple speeding ticket. It's the same thing here, Only the UK takes it's people seriously. There's no law on any books that would allow a prosecutor to even ask a court for a person to "fry" for computer tresspass.. being as this was an offical agent, under press conference, JEST is not an option.. he was threatening illegal execution of the prisoner. period. American cops and prosecutors are in need of a harsh lesson in professionalism. They have the law on their side, there's no need for idle, illegal threats.
Ahh, but apple CAN make that argument!!! Apple is in the top five music retailers... right behind Walmart and Target... Apple and iTunes is NOT trivial anymore... Remember when Walmart would dictate album art and such... Apple is about to have even MORE power than that!!
you do realize you don't know what your talking about... Apple has a USB AC adapter that works with all their ipods...as do several other companies. There's nothing special about it.. it powers just like a USB port on the computer. Sounds like somebody wants to do that for ALL USB devices which would be a good thing. Bonus points if they make BOTH ports standard shape and data transfer to not confuse users, but merely require 2 for power purposes. I have a pocket hard drive that does that. It requires 2 USB ports to get under the per-port power restrictions. Some computers have a little extra juice to need only 1, but it's meet to run with 2.
battle bots in my house... extra cool!
on top of that there was a suit quite a while ago that put the rental money into pockets of the MPAA anyway as payment for the "extra" viewings...
this is exactly what Apple is waiting for!!!! If it got legal to rip DVDs iTunes and iTV would wipe the floor overnight. After all, like these guys, apple can add the standard MPAA-approved "protection" measures to the rips and most people would still love it. like other posters said, if you could load up your DVD to your PC, view it on the Apple TV it would sell gagillions. Most people would live with Apple's 5 PC + all the ipods and appleTVs you can buy limits. Like other posters said, having the DVD would be a feature, sure the rental market would boom, but even then, those stores are BUYING DVDs in order to meet demand for renting so you can't loose...they could even bump the price of DVDs up a little to compensate. That said, there's a new DVD copy protection that's nasty...the discs actually crash my dvd recorder due to the PC-type drive, so it may be getting harder anyway.
That said, now that farmers might actually have a CASH crop and end the govt subsidies, people don't want to pay fair prices for food... funny how "free market" raiders don't like when another industry can lock up some profits at their expense. It does seem "wasteful" to use the food crop for fuel, but poverty and hunger are not due to lack of food like Casto and others would like to think... we ship more than enough food to the starving nations to feed them, their leaders sell it or burn it instead of helping the people... the GOVTS simply don't care about other people. We grow lots of crops to not use expressly for food that corn can be used for both food and fuel is a good thing! Like how soy can be used for all sorts of things.
Frankly, we need to get more "eco-friendly" all life comes from the Sun... even coal and oil were once vast herds of dinosaurs and lush forests before being buried by massive amounts of earth being flipped over... last I checked we're not making anymore dinosaurs for oil anymore. If we can get slightly less power from a plant without waiting the thousands of years to make oil we should go for it.
plagiarism is turning in research work that is not original for the assignment. When you turn in your own paper again, it's not original work for THAT assignment. This petty thing about ownership has nothing to do with it. it's a ego-building power grab by school management.