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That post making the analogy to gagging someone and then claiming not to have significantly impaired their free speech was right on target. It sounds already as if this judge has made his mind up, so they might as well start preparing their documents for the appeal.
I think the grounds will be that you cannot give someone a right and then prevent them from exercising that right, no matter if you significantly impair them or just annoy them. I mean, what if you were given the right to vote and then told you could only do so by travelling to your state's capital city? Technically you aren't being denied your right to vote, but for all practical purposes you are because it would be a huge inconvenience. I could see this going to the supreme court very easily, but what they'll do with it is anyone's guess.
I don't want to buy a CD and then find out that only the 1 or 2 tracks I heard on the radio were any good. It's gotten to the point where even if a CD is released by a band I really like, I wait until I can use file-sharing to sample the rest of the CD that I haven't heard yet. And if I like what I hear, I go buy it. If not, I keep the 1 or 2 songs I do like as mp3s. It's that simple.
is to somehow get the digital consumer rights tacked on to the U.S. Constitution. If you think that's not the appropriate place for it, consider if the entire document were written today instead of over 200 years ago...don't you think that would have been one of the original ammendments?
I'm dreaming I know, but I wish I wasn't. If they outlaw useful computers, a black market for useful computers will erupt. Come to think of it, sounds a bit like prohibition.
Come on...if you compare the STL to Java for most programs, the STL wins hands down. Ever looked at the consistency between the Java classes that Sun supplies? Class A will have a method called M1 that does something and class B will not have a method called M1 but instead called M2...and both do exactly the same thing! Did Sun assign each programmer to a class and have them write each one without talking to each other?
I actually use Java for some things, but with the class documentation open in a web browser at all times since it's so hard to remember the inconsistent naming. I think they should just deprecate half the methods, switch to common names, and then actually remove deprecated methods after they've been there for several releases.
If you read the article and look at who was on the 6 and who was on the 3 side of the decision, you'll notice that justices Thomas and Scalia - who I think vote with each other like > 90% of the time - are on two different sides for this one. This is somewhat encouraging to me...perhaps they'll start taking different sides more often.
Instead of publishing in an IEEE journal or an IEEE-affiliated conference, researchers with ideas that could be affected by the DMCA will publish in lesser-known venues. This not only hurts the IEEE, but the academic world at large since such conferences are high-profile and the IEEE database of papers is a very convenient source of information. Now it will take even longer to find the information you want.
As in real life, a few A-firms live and thrive for generations, but most are evanescent, and now and then a really big one collapses despite having been stable for years. Sometimes the addition of one slacker too many can push a seemingly solid firm into instability and fission; but you can't be sure in advance which firm will crumble, or when.
"Software engineers are not traditional engineers. They're rock stars," Copeland says, meaning they're less interested in meticulously removing all flaws from a design the way a skycraper architect would feel compelled to do.
I take issue with this. What software engineer doesn't try to remove all the flaws from their code? All good engineers do this...heck I could almost be called obsessive-compulsive about making sure my code works correctly. Maybe there are a bunch of bad programmers out there who think they're rock stars. And if there are, I don't want them working for me. Ever.
...in the future surround my radio with something that selectively cancels out what I think is crap. Sort of like how I mute the television when some commercials come on because they're too annoying and there isn't anything else I want to watch, but this would be automatic. (Hehe...no comment on how this device could be used against that Celine Dion CD mentioned in the other article.)
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This only makes sense if the software that expires actually needs updating...and you don't know that it will need updating when you write the program and release it (if you did, you'd just fix it pre-release). Once something reaches a stable version, it would really suck if every year or so (that's another thing...how do you pick the time period?) it still had to be updated.
Anyone else look at this case and think of that scene from the first ghostbusters movie where they ask Ray what he thought of and he says the Stay-Puff Marshmallow man? The stuff oozing out of the case sort of reminds me of after they blow Stay-Puff up and there's white goo everywhere.
AMD's insistence on IPC is also misguided, Dunford says, since the Pentium chip has to execute fewer instructions than the Athlon XP.
Okay, they've got to be referring to the fact Athlons are really a CISC-to-RISC architecture that translates the x86 instructions into an internal RISC ISA. One CISC instruction would typically correspond to more than one RISC instruction, so yes, it would be executing more RISC instructions than a Pentium would execute CISC instructions...but this is deceptive.
I'm a user running a program who wants the program to finish ASAP. To me, the processor is a black box that takes instructions from my program and does whatever it needs to so the program finishes ASAP. As a user I DO NOT CARE that it changes to RISC internally. All I care about is it executing my program, which is a set of CISC instructions. If you run the same program on an Athlon and a Pentium they will both execute the same number of CISC instructions...they have to...otherwise one of them is not correct. So as long as the IPC number AMD is using is in terms of number of CISC instructions per cycle, they certainly do have a valid comparison and are not misguided as this guy says.
This technique will never replace typed passwords because it makes the following assumptions:
The user has a functional, properly configured pointing device and is physically capable of using it.
A graphical display must be loaded prior to logging on, which sucks if that's what you're trying to login to fix.
Any other computer you are using to login remotely to such a password protected computer must also be capable of displaying the same pictures.
Besides, the click locations would have to be stored in terms of percentages to allow for scaling the image for display on different devices with different resolutions and still accepting the user's "password." Add in a tolerance factor since the user probably won't click the exact same spot, and look...if I display all your images so they're really tiny I can click wherever I want and login!
That's precisely why Hollings and the five senators who joined him want to embed copy-protection controls in all PCs and consumer electronic devices. Devices manufactured before the law takes effect can be resold legally.
Anyone know who the other 5 are? If it's someone from my state I don't want to ever vote for them again.
I realize Dell has pretty huge exposure in the PC industry, so whatever they do people pay most attention to, but the fact is other companies have started offering Linux pre-installed on their computers. I'll cite Monarch Computer as an example, from which you can get RedHat or Mandrake preinstalled as well as customize your entire order. There are several other companies like this...so stop complaining about Dell dropping Linux and start buying from other places that do offer Linux. If these companies start making enough profit off selling Linux computers, Dell and others will take notice and perhaps start offering it again.
>Again, because it's Microsoft, you will be required >to answer the questions the way Microsoft would >answer then, which isn't always necessarily the >best way.
Typical answer sheet:
1) It's not a bug, it's a feature.
2) It's not a bug, it's a feature.
3) It's not a bug, it's a feature. ...
I'm not in marketing, but I always thought the goal
was to stick signs and billboards somewhere that LOTS of people would see them. I don't think graveyards fit that description. People go there, quite often only on holidays or anniversaries or whatever, to visit a couple specific graves and then leave. I know of no one who actuallys says, "oh gee, while we're here let's go look at all the other graves." I highly doubt this would become widespread enough that you would be forced to encounter tens or hundreds of advertising graves on the path to the one you were visiting, so the only people seeing one of these posters will be the people who the companies paid to put it there. That sounds like a lot of negative cash flow to me.
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Thanks man. Grabbed it at 100 kbps. NICE.
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Hmmm...
So even though Netscape and Mozilla are very similar, Netscape 7 is a 30MB download while Mozilla is about 10MB?
I can't imagine what they're doing with the other 20MB. Sounds tremendously bloated to me.
That post making the analogy to gagging someone and then claiming not to have significantly impaired their free speech was right on target. It sounds already as if this judge has made his mind up, so they might as well start preparing their documents for the appeal.
I think the grounds will be that you cannot give someone a right and then prevent them from exercising that right, no matter if you significantly impair them or just annoy them. I mean, what if you were given the right to vote and then told you could only do so by travelling to your state's capital city? Technically you aren't being denied your right to vote, but for all practical purposes you are because it would be a huge inconvenience. I could see this going to the supreme court very easily, but what they'll do with it is anyone's guess.
I don't want to buy a CD and then find out that only the 1 or 2 tracks I heard on the radio were any good. It's gotten to the point where even if a CD is released by a band I really like, I wait until I can use file-sharing to sample the rest of the CD that I haven't heard yet. And if I like what I hear, I go buy it. If not, I keep the 1 or 2 songs I do like as mp3s. It's that simple.
It's worth looking at if you can view flash pages. Make sure you've got your speakers turned on too.
is to somehow get the digital consumer rights tacked on to the U.S. Constitution. If you think that's not the appropriate place for it, consider if the entire document were written today instead of over 200 years ago...don't you think that would have been one of the original ammendments?
I'm dreaming I know, but I wish I wasn't. If they outlaw useful computers, a black market for useful computers will erupt. Come to think of it, sounds a bit like prohibition.
Come on...if you compare the STL to Java for most programs, the STL wins hands down. Ever looked at the consistency between the Java classes that Sun supplies? Class A will have a method called M1 that does something and class B will not have a method called M1 but instead called M2...and both do exactly the same thing! Did Sun assign each programmer to a class and have them write each one without talking to each other?
I actually use Java for some things, but with the class documentation open in a web browser at all times since it's so hard to remember the inconsistent naming. I think they should just deprecate half the methods, switch to common names, and then actually remove deprecated methods after they've been there for several releases.
Buy our salmon-colored case! Scientifically proven to be the color of the universe.
(Actually, I don't really remember what color they finally settled on they changed their minds so many times.)
If you read the article and look at who was on the 6 and who was on the 3 side of the decision, you'll notice that justices Thomas and Scalia - who I think vote with each other like > 90% of the time - are on two different sides for this one. This is somewhat encouraging to me...perhaps they'll start taking different sides more often.
Instead of publishing in an IEEE journal or an IEEE-affiliated conference, researchers with ideas that could be affected by the DMCA will publish in lesser-known venues. This not only hurts the IEEE, but the academic world at large since such conferences are high-profile and the IEEE database of papers is a very convenient source of information. Now it will take even longer to find the information you want.
Let's hope the ACM doesn't follow suit...
From the article:
As in real life, a few A-firms live and thrive for generations, but most are evanescent, and now and then a really big one collapses despite having been stable for years. Sometimes the addition of one slacker too many can push a seemingly solid firm into instability and fission; but you can't be sure in advance which firm will crumble, or when.
Sound familiar to anyone?
From the Salon monoculture article:
"Software engineers are not traditional engineers. They're rock stars," Copeland says, meaning they're less interested in meticulously removing all flaws from a design the way a skycraper architect would feel compelled to do.
I take issue with this. What software engineer doesn't try to remove all the flaws from their code? All good engineers do this...heck I could almost be called obsessive-compulsive about making sure my code works correctly. Maybe there are a bunch of bad programmers out there who think they're rock stars. And if there are, I don't want them working for me. Ever.
...in the future surround my radio with something that selectively cancels out what I think is crap. Sort of like how I mute the television when some commercials come on because they're too annoying and there isn't anything else I want to watch, but this would be automatic. (Hehe...no comment on how this device could be used against that Celine Dion CD mentioned in the other article.)
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This only makes sense if the software that expires actually needs updating...and you don't know that it will need updating when you write the program and release it (if you did, you'd just fix it pre-release). Once something reaches a stable version, it would really suck if every year or so (that's another thing...how do you pick the time period?) it still had to be updated.
Anyone else look at this case and think of that scene from the first ghostbusters movie where they ask Ray what he thought of and he says the Stay-Puff Marshmallow man? The stuff oozing out of the case sort of reminds me of after they blow Stay-Puff up and there's white goo everywhere.
From the ZDNet article:
AMD's insistence on IPC is also misguided, Dunford says, since the Pentium chip has to execute fewer instructions than the Athlon XP.
Okay, they've got to be referring to the fact Athlons are really a CISC-to-RISC architecture that translates the x86 instructions into an internal RISC ISA. One CISC instruction would typically correspond to more than one RISC instruction, so yes, it would be executing more RISC instructions than a Pentium would execute CISC instructions...but this is deceptive.
I'm a user running a program who wants the program to finish ASAP. To me, the processor is a black box that takes instructions from my program and does whatever it needs to so the program finishes ASAP. As a user I DO NOT CARE that it changes to RISC internally. All I care about is it executing my program, which is a set of CISC instructions. If you run the same program on an Athlon and a Pentium they will both execute the same number of CISC instructions...they have to...otherwise one of them is not correct. So as long as the IPC number AMD is using is in terms of number of CISC instructions per cycle, they certainly do have a valid comparison and are not misguided as this guy says.
Besides, the click locations would have to be stored in terms of percentages to allow for scaling the image for display on different devices with different resolutions and still accepting the user's "password." Add in a tolerance factor since the user probably won't click the exact same spot, and look...if I display all your images so they're really tiny I can click wherever I want and login!
That's precisely why Hollings and the five senators who joined him want to embed copy-protection controls in all PCs and consumer electronic devices. Devices manufactured before the law takes effect can be resold legally.
Anyone know who the other 5 are? If it's someone from my state I don't want to ever vote for them again.
I realize Dell has pretty huge exposure in the PC industry, so whatever they do people pay most attention to, but the fact is other companies have started offering Linux pre-installed on their computers. I'll cite Monarch Computer as an example, from which you can get RedHat or Mandrake preinstalled as well as customize your entire order. There are several other companies like this...so stop complaining about Dell dropping Linux and start buying from other places that do offer Linux. If these companies start making enough profit off selling Linux computers, Dell and others will take notice and perhaps start offering it again.
Okay people, we've reached the 2-Borg limit on the main page...
Time to find something non-Microsoft to post before the whole page gets assimilated.
>Again, because it's Microsoft, you will be required
...
>to answer the questions the way Microsoft would
>answer then, which isn't always necessarily the
>best way.
Typical answer sheet:
1) It's not a bug, it's a feature.
2) It's not a bug, it's a feature.
3) It's not a bug, it's a feature.
I'm not in marketing, but I always thought the goal was to stick signs and billboards somewhere that LOTS of people would see them. I don't think graveyards fit that description. People go there, quite often only on holidays or anniversaries or whatever, to visit a couple specific graves and then leave. I know of no one who actuallys says, "oh gee, while we're here let's go look at all the other graves." I highly doubt this would become widespread enough that you would be forced to encounter tens or hundreds of advertising graves on the path to the one you were visiting, so the only people seeing one of these posters will be the people who the companies paid to put it there. That sounds like a lot of negative cash flow to me.