The 800mhz to 1.x ghz range just isn't enough for anyone, anymore
That's why I run Firebird, OpenOffice.org, email, and terninal sessions on a 400MHZ W/ Win98 & 128MB! It's a bit pokey at times, but everything runs just fine. My home PC is a 1.1 tulatin with 512MB & win2K It's quite a bit snappier, but not "twice" as responsive because of all the Extra "features" Just got a new Atholon 2500+ XP w/xp for a coworker and it flies for some things, but basic responsiveness & trying to do what you WANT to do still take LONGER because of feature creep.
What's needed is BETTER software not MORE software!
Judge Jackson's findings were never, ever thrown out. Only his take on what the solution should be. That's a big stick the courts have! The court is really trying to give MS a "chance" for some precieved indiscression by Judge Jackson. As MS repeats its show for the new judge!
Hopefully, She will keep brutally silent as MS plays its games with her. Like Teddy Roosevelt said, "speak softly, and carry a big stick" if she maintains absolute silence now, her smack down will be un-appealable! The Appeals court thought Jackson was HARSH, not WRONG! Also remember that MS made a fool of a Federal Judge...when they attempt to do it again, the Appeals court will be watching...and won't like what they see from MS at all! The appeals court didn't seem inclined to deal with any of the facts of the case, only the judge's behavior. Unlike poor judge Jackson, they don't have to discuss publicly their choices...only the final rulings. Stunts like MS's make for very bitter judges, but they only have to produce a neat ruling draft, and not the very sarcastic comments they are known to make while debating it! [read Supreme Court docs sometime to see that the higher courts don't take bull...or play "pretty" about it! They can be vicious even by/. standards.]
MS is too big and stuck on itself to learn to play nice at this stage of the game. They will screw even this joke of a settlemen up. Not IF, but WHEN!
But without a FAIR field to play on, Your mini-software can't survive. MS [and the other mega corps] is rapidly absorbing or extinguishing everything they can into THEIR homogney. So you may have a really cool app, but if it's on windows your days are already numbered [and the MS big check option is rapidly winding down!]...that's more certian than even having OSS copy you!
In short, you need OSS to have a level field for you to play on...one that nobody can take away. The only way to KEEP it level is to keep any one group from "owning" too many pieces, i.e. GPL.
And THAT is a violation of civil rights! What works in Pakistan is that these are the car's OWNERS [mostly corps] installing this in THEIR property...which I guess would be OK, even for/.
In your example, this is why Corporations should be regulated as governments and not private "entities" This person could have been KILLED over a simple missunderstanding that probably wasn't his fault! That is completely unacceptable in the USA
Also, remote disabling wouldn't work here. Or rather, lets make the person who pushed the button go out in downtown NYC [or LA] traffic to collect the car they disabled....any takers? didnt' think so!
No, they don't have to prove damages...that's one of the issues that the ROM [and others] community has. Many of the "Owners" are not in posession of a working copy of many older video game ROMS to sell you a copy if you asked. Yet they still go to court and try to make up damages to stop on-line trading etc. Copyright has become all about "handling" the Rights and not actually procucing anything!
This is a HARDWARE feature anyway. The source is "open" so to speak...you use HTML to create the screens. The point of the thing is to wrap up a few tiny pages in as little space possible and then keep it there...not to "play" with it like a browser or something.
This looks like a re-intrepetation of what Allen-Bradley did with Panelview controllers. Note that panelview came out in the EARLY 90's [possibly earlier] before HTML interfaces were common. But the procedure they discribed is very much the same for creating the cool touch-screen machine controls popular with most assembly lines nowdays.
Medical tech is a very, very slow industry much like industrial controls mentioned last week. It takes a company like Siemens 3-5 years just to get a new technology [like a change from Unix to Windows] from the drawing board to the field. Most of these companies didn't start a windows push til the very late 90's! It's almost ironic that the push NOW is from Windows to Linux...These poor guys just can't win after all.
That's another valid point that might hold weight. Back in the 1920's when many of the works in question were created, what were the authors paid at the time for their "rights". It would seem that the original deal was for so many years at $X price. Now the corps have extended their years....are the original authors recieving adjusted compensation + interest for the extra time and usage the assignees are getting out of their works? That may make a court take notice!
Actually that could be a great case for Lessing's next argument! If a "copyright" holder can't produce a valid, reproducable copy of a given work like in your example, they we should get the courts to rule against them. They weren't interested enough to KEEP it available...and obviously YOU can't give them a copy, can you! What about rare books or phonographs too. Another example would be Star Wars. The original archive was in such bad shape that the digital remaster was necessary to clean it up enough to be reproducable! How much material could be found and attempted to be published that was "abandon" by it's "owners"?
When they are finding hundreds of species they didn't expect to, I'd call that pretty important! How can you tell the health of the ocean if you don't even know all about what's living there? This is pure, simple, elementry science at it's best. It's just as important [probably more] as exploring space. And the first step to uncovering how important it is to protect the world we live in so it will still be there in 100, 1000 years!
They "real" science you want will be affected later in all sorts of ways...now that they have many more samples & ideas to draw from when looking for new cures for diseases.
no, I mean hard code it... Refuse to load any song matched against the CDDB & delete it from your computer, and add advanced audio pattern matching so that even if you rip from a record it will still recognize it as a Beetle song and not play it. They could also modify Safari to eliminate all references to "Beetles" [except for Bugs!] so that you couldn't even ask if there was a problem!
whether you were right or not. If you aren't current with WHY your "truths" are needed is just as bad as made-up lies. Anyway you were still USED by the Boss to hurt others without knowing what you were doing. That should be enough.
of course they teach "collaboration" so that the higher-ups can get the same work without actually paying for the "title". That's not what they teach, but how it really works! When the project is done and rewards handed out that's when the titles kick back in... nevermind you were "entry level" helping out the MBA, you'll be put back in your place as soon as it's convenient.
That "shared" thing only goes so far...like when you expect the bosses to share back!
People really aren't using the media tools they already have very well for gaming.
Personally, a monthly game would do quite nicely if packaged in a unique format. CDs are cheap! Toss 'um in a magazine and sell a lot more copies. Which is really the point.
Look at a game like Quake 3. They could have been releasing levels right along now for almost 3 years...with no more engine investment. I know they have a "mod" community, but that's a bit of a cop-out. Many other games have the same tale of wasted resources. Massive engines are developed for a One-shot game, then zip. Once you get 3-4 $50 games piled up that you'll never have the time to finish buying another one [even if you REALLY want it] is a pretty slim chance...that's BAD for the industry. If they can keep you coming back for $15 or $20 games they'd be better off in the long run.
One business point many PC games miss is the need to keep people GOING to the stores! [or at the website] They keep missing the SOCIAL aspect of releasing new stories to visit. The Maxis people have hit this dead-on with The Sims. You can pick up the base game and any "chapter" and be quite happy. If you've been "collecting" right along you get added value from the extra attention to "cross" interactions. There is lots of user content, but it's not the basis of their product plans. Everquest has done this to a lesser extent [but people are tired of buy now play later MMORGs].
The other thing is content. Game companies need to develop games for a broader audience! There's only some many/.rs running windows to buy this stuff. I have yet to see a really engaging kid/teen level game. Per Hollywood, PG entertainment sells better than R. There's a LOT of ways to get younger customers involved. PCs don't have the huge license fees so copy count for returns aren't an issue. Also, they don't make many "party" games for PC. Not talking Lan games, but really good Social games...again Sims fits this catagory. Consoles have good ones like Mario Kart or all the sports games. PC games are pretty solitary when they could be so much more! Look at how popular Karaoke and sports bars are..you lazy games people can play for fun, OR you need tournament style games that have good spectator value. The "sit in the dark corner" games will only ever have so many customers...with dwindling cash as they "grow up" You need games that CMDRTaco can still play after he and the mrs pop out a few kids to tend. I'd venture an awful lot of readers here fall in that catagory....write games for US!
Wasn't the term "spyware" specifically invented to describe GATOR! Correct me if I'm wrong, but before Gator and the like there was no term "spyware". It wasn't until programs like Gator began appering everywhere that the community needed a term to describe it and choose the name "spyware" to describe that class of remote-internet-usage-monitoring-software-you-didn 't-know-you-installed-and-can't-easily-get-rid-of software?
They would have been better off trademarking the term [because everyone calls them that] and then enforcing the tradmark with C&Ds than this. Hopefully a judge will laugh this out of court...if it comes to that.
I think Jobs should just hard-code iTunes to not play any Apple Records music....That would be fair and keep customers straight. They could even implement digital watermarking technology to prevent playing Ripped music like records or CDs. A personal vendetta can go a long way in the business world!
Of course when iTunes & iPod become the "windows" of the music world....Oops! Who's the Beetles! Must not be important because my iPod won't play um.
It would seem BT would HELP ISPs rather than hurt them. The system is set up to share from "nearer" computers first...for a large ISP with many users trying to download the same big file, only one person with BT would need to get it externally, then the rest simply "share" off that copy. I suppose "mega-media" producers have a problem with the loss of absolute control [and they have $$ for bandwith] but OSS projects would seem to thrive off sharing bandwith...just like sharing source!
Many of Floirda's ballots were goofy and somewhat misleading at first glance. Things like the butterfly ballots with alternating "x" sides, and ballots marked by moving the paper under a single manual punch [leading to incomplete, incorrect, mis registered punches] On top of that, they relied on people to hand count them? Leading to all sorts of intrepetations.
I live in Michigan, and my town uses very simple paper ballots that get electronically scanned. All the choices are in a line down the page and you complete the bar with ink to make your choice. It's then machine read and stored in case of trouble. It's also very easy for people to read..and if the result is uncertian, the computer would catch the errors first. The only improvement I would make would be to allow you to electronicly verify your vote is accurate...you marked what you think you marked.
But the Florida system was [some would say delibertly] confusing and overly manual...espeically for those who may not have the best dextarity or reading skills...that's no excuse to "throw" the vote by increasing inaccuracy.
The college has went from created by students for students, to a bureacracy that exists to feed itself. On top of that policaticans see the "old" buracracy as a way of cutting fat from their own budgets...after all, they've always weathered the storm....
The Student is the only group that doesn't have a voice. They really can't just choose another school, but pehaps they should. Parents, Alumni, teachers, admins, and govt all have a say...with the students' lifestyle and hard-earned cash! So it's easy to always "blame the students" for what's wrong. It would be an interesting experiment to see students destroy a school by transfering a large percent of the students out. In Michigan, there are enough state schools close enough to do such a thing...consider it a economics lesson! Students [customers] that put up with such abuse without shopping around are "commies" right..it's their patriotic duty to uphold their rights as consumers. And they wonder why schools are so "liberal".
Slashdot Mirror
It would be cute if I was actally joking, huh...
lets add spycams and bugs to the list too! The politicians are just dumb enough to slip this thru!
What's needed is BETTER software not MORE software!
Hopefully, She will keep brutally silent as MS plays its games with her. Like Teddy Roosevelt said, "speak softly, and carry a big stick" if she maintains absolute silence now, her smack down will be un-appealable! The Appeals court thought Jackson was HARSH, not WRONG! Also remember that MS made a fool of a Federal Judge...when they attempt to do it again, the Appeals court will be watching...and won't like what they see from MS at all! The appeals court didn't seem inclined to deal with any of the facts of the case, only the judge's behavior. Unlike poor judge Jackson, they don't have to discuss publicly their choices...only the final rulings. Stunts like MS's make for very bitter judges, but they only have to produce a neat ruling draft, and not the very sarcastic comments they are known to make while debating it! [read Supreme Court docs sometime to see that the higher courts don't take bull...or play "pretty" about it! They can be vicious even by /. standards.]
MS is too big and stuck on itself to learn to play nice at this stage of the game. They will screw even this joke of a settlemen up. Not IF, but WHEN!
In short, you need OSS to have a level field for you to play on...one that nobody can take away. The only way to KEEP it level is to keep any one group from "owning" too many pieces, i.e. GPL.
Hey, gotta asks!
In your example, this is why Corporations should be regulated as governments and not private "entities" This person could have been KILLED over a simple missunderstanding that probably wasn't his fault! That is completely unacceptable in the USA
Also, remote disabling wouldn't work here. Or rather, lets make the person who pushed the button go out in downtown NYC [or LA] traffic to collect the car they disabled....any takers? didnt' think so!
No, they don't have to prove damages...that's one of the issues that the ROM [and others] community has. Many of the "Owners" are not in posession of a working copy of many older video game ROMS to sell you a copy if you asked. Yet they still go to court and try to make up damages to stop on-line trading etc. Copyright has become all about "handling" the Rights and not actually procucing anything!
This is a HARDWARE feature anyway. The source is "open" so to speak...you use HTML to create the screens. The point of the thing is to wrap up a few tiny pages in as little space possible and then keep it there...not to "play" with it like a browser or something.
This looks like a re-intrepetation of what Allen-Bradley did with Panelview controllers. Note that panelview came out in the EARLY 90's [possibly earlier] before HTML interfaces were common. But the procedure they discribed is very much the same for creating the cool touch-screen machine controls popular with most assembly lines nowdays.
Medical tech is a very, very slow industry much like industrial controls mentioned last week. It takes a company like Siemens 3-5 years just to get a new technology [like a change from Unix to Windows] from the drawing board to the field. Most of these companies didn't start a windows push til the very late 90's! It's almost ironic that the push NOW is from Windows to Linux...These poor guys just can't win after all.
That's another valid point that might hold weight. Back in the 1920's when many of the works in question were created, what were the authors paid at the time for their "rights". It would seem that the original deal was for so many years at $X price. Now the corps have extended their years....are the original authors recieving adjusted compensation + interest for the extra time and usage the assignees are getting out of their works? That may make a court take notice!
Actually that could be a great case for Lessing's next argument! If a "copyright" holder can't produce a valid, reproducable copy of a given work like in your example, they we should get the courts to rule against them. They weren't interested enough to KEEP it available...and obviously YOU can't give them a copy, can you! What about rare books or phonographs too. Another example would be Star Wars. The original archive was in such bad shape that the digital remaster was necessary to clean it up enough to be reproducable! How much material could be found and attempted to be published that was "abandon" by it's "owners"?
They "real" science you want will be affected later in all sorts of ways...now that they have many more samples & ideas to draw from when looking for new cures for diseases.
no, I mean hard code it... Refuse to load any song matched against the CDDB & delete it from your computer, and add advanced audio pattern matching so that even if you rip from a record it will still recognize it as a Beetle song and not play it. They could also modify Safari to eliminate all references to "Beetles" [except for Bugs!] so that you couldn't even ask if there was a problem!
whether you were right or not. If you aren't current with WHY your "truths" are needed is just as bad as made-up lies. Anyway you were still USED by the Boss to hurt others without knowing what you were doing. That should be enough.
That "shared" thing only goes so far...like when you expect the bosses to share back!
Personally, a monthly game would do quite nicely if packaged in a unique format. CDs are cheap! Toss 'um in a magazine and sell a lot more copies. Which is really the point.
Look at a game like Quake 3. They could have been releasing levels right along now for almost 3 years...with no more engine investment. I know they have a "mod" community, but that's a bit of a cop-out. Many other games have the same tale of wasted resources. Massive engines are developed for a One-shot game, then zip. Once you get 3-4 $50 games piled up that you'll never have the time to finish buying another one [even if you REALLY want it] is a pretty slim chance...that's BAD for the industry. If they can keep you coming back for $15 or $20 games they'd be better off in the long run.
One business point many PC games miss is the need to keep people GOING to the stores! [or at the website] They keep missing the SOCIAL aspect of releasing new stories to visit. The Maxis people have hit this dead-on with The Sims. You can pick up the base game and any "chapter" and be quite happy. If you've been "collecting" right along you get added value from the extra attention to "cross" interactions. There is lots of user content, but it's not the basis of their product plans. Everquest has done this to a lesser extent [but people are tired of buy now play later MMORGs].
The other thing is content. Game companies need to develop games for a broader audience! There's only some many /.rs running windows to buy this stuff. I have yet to see a really engaging kid/teen level game. Per Hollywood, PG entertainment sells better than R. There's a LOT of ways to get younger customers involved. PCs don't have the huge license fees so copy count for returns aren't an issue. Also, they don't make many "party" games for PC. Not talking Lan games, but really good Social games...again Sims fits this catagory. Consoles have good ones like Mario Kart or all the sports games. PC games are pretty solitary when they could be so much more! Look at how popular Karaoke and sports bars are..you lazy games people can play for fun, OR you need tournament style games that have good spectator value. The "sit in the dark corner" games will only ever have so many customers...with dwindling cash as they "grow up" You need games that CMDRTaco can still play after he and the mrs pop out a few kids to tend. I'd venture an awful lot of readers here fall in that catagory....write games for US!
The "Oldest" profession goes for a LOT more per hour!
You do realize that they will do it now out of spite for all us /.ers, Right?
They would have been better off trademarking the term [because everyone calls them that] and then enforcing the tradmark with C&Ds than this. Hopefully a judge will laugh this out of court...if it comes to that.
Of course when iTunes & iPod become the "windows" of the music world....Oops! Who's the Beetles! Must not be important because my iPod won't play um.
It would seem BT would HELP ISPs rather than hurt them. The system is set up to share from "nearer" computers first...for a large ISP with many users trying to download the same big file, only one person with BT would need to get it externally, then the rest simply "share" off that copy. I suppose "mega-media" producers have a problem with the loss of absolute control [and they have $$ for bandwith] but OSS projects would seem to thrive off sharing bandwith...just like sharing source!
I live in Michigan, and my town uses very simple paper ballots that get electronically scanned. All the choices are in a line down the page and you complete the bar with ink to make your choice. It's then machine read and stored in case of trouble. It's also very easy for people to read..and if the result is uncertian, the computer would catch the errors first. The only improvement I would make would be to allow you to electronicly verify your vote is accurate...you marked what you think you marked.
But the Florida system was [some would say delibertly] confusing and overly manual...espeically for those who may not have the best dextarity or reading skills...that's no excuse to "throw" the vote by increasing inaccuracy.
The Student is the only group that doesn't have a voice. They really can't just choose another school, but pehaps they should. Parents, Alumni, teachers, admins, and govt all have a say...with the students' lifestyle and hard-earned cash! So it's easy to always "blame the students" for what's wrong. It would be an interesting experiment to see students destroy a school by transfering a large percent of the students out. In Michigan, there are enough state schools close enough to do such a thing...consider it a economics lesson! Students [customers] that put up with such abuse without shopping around are "commies" right..it's their patriotic duty to uphold their rights as consumers. And they wonder why schools are so "liberal".