Reading the article doesn't help that much. It's a bunch of nothing and it resumes to a PR stunt. Did he said anything relevant? I don't think so. He's rather trying to say "cool down, we're under control" whereas many are just unhappy about how E3 turns out.
Besides, how can we trust companies to gather together and have a consensus to everyone's advantage? What benefits big corporations such as EA games will gain to let small developer in? There are so many questions and ignorance may fill the void but stupidity will let other bad guys fill the void in their way too.
With the various world trade agreements, I care less and less about other countries. If it's not outsourcing, it's them coming to us. We should begin to care about our own economy and fix it than other's one. We have our own problems, our own jobless, underpaid, overworked, etc.
It's not just about Australia anyway. All around the globe companies try to overpass their rights and tighten their customers in any way they can.
It's not just about piracy, it's about the perverse control they want to have. And they send us the bill, because each time a new technology comes out, with protection system, they make you pay for the R&D of the unwanted proctection system. At some extend, they have the right to protect themself.. but it's being rat to send the bill afterward.
If it's not DRM, it's DMCA, patends, copyrights, etc. When will the customer, or the simple tax contributor, will prevail?
At this rate, someday, computer will be considered as a tool to breach copyrights and patents and, therefore, will be declared illegal. Isn't it getting worse every day?
It feels like someone is trying to find an excuse to go on war with China.
I am not anti-american. I have friends and customers in USA. But I guess it's time to have a wake-up call, my friends. Anyway, if it's not war, it's outsourcing.. tough luck.
Nobody has an opinion on this? Freaking!
Microsoft is around Sun. Both are pushing DRM in their way. I would not be surprised that OpenDRM is just a tactic to introduce DRM smoothly to the market. Honestly, on the user side, I don't think there are many DRM fans.
It's not explicity written in the article that the money will go against spammers. Instead, it is said about crime. We can only suppose computer crimes. It's much larger than spamming and one might believe it's just a PR stunt where they will simply use 5$ million dollars to fight against people who "illegaly" obtain Windows Vista, maybe?
This question is not a bit surprising considering people with multi-platforms and multi-languages skills are unlikely to be welcome by companies.
Since the begining of my career, 10 years ago, I have been writing multi-platforms softwares and doing large ports. Though it is a feat in itself, I usually hide this fact to employers because they tend to think as follow: "if someone spends time with other operating systems and/or programming languages, then she/he will spend less time with our usual target platform and language. Therefore, she/he is less qualified."
As far as I know, it is untrue statement and porting experience brings a developer to develop higher quality softwares. Porting tends to make your code stronger as a better quality and more stable is a direct result.
There are few specialized people and companies, just like me, but that's about it. Besides, OSS community tends to have better porting knowledge than others - even though many main actors don't port themselves, they have to correctly integrate ports from other people.
You brought interesting matter and I was following until you name the sport cars example.
People buy red sport cars because they want to be flashy and get the attention (I'm sure you agree on this). But it nonetheless has some drawbacks - just see how much tickets you get when you have a red and then a green sport car.
The point is, rather, that the author goes a little extreme in his conclusions.
This particular point, number 10, also shocked me at first but then I've realized that the author has the only purpose to shred lights over some bad practices and extremes are a good way to bring attentions.
However, this raise another point : extreme examples are not arguments nor necessarily valid by their nature. It's bring attentions just as much as red and green would. Therefore, isn't this author uses the same technique he despises in order to make us overlook his point of view?
I've eagerly read this interview but as I've devoured the words it seemed to me Mr. Kircaali was becoming aggressive in his answers. Up to a point where he finally complained about his media company being DoSsed. He did put emphasis on the fact they've had experienced the biggest cyber attack in history of any media company (which, I would like to remind you, sounds like SCO words in the past).
This raised a question in my mind - what this interview was for? He did not seem to really care about the case nor he did not really excuse himself to have allowed O'Gara's article being publish.
The questions were repetitive and they never got where the reporter wanted the interview to go. Kircaali has been evasive in his answers about the topic of interest (PJ, Groklaw, O'Gara's work, etc). He was nonethelesse quite exhaustive on his report of being attacked and threatening emails sent to his customers.
It just leaves me on the feeling he is upset because he's losing a great deal of money. Someone should remind him that he decided to publish O'Gara's article.
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Linda Lamone later stated that the buildings are kept to the proper temperature in order to prevent computers to freeze.
You might be more interested in http://www.gp2x.com/. Nice piece of hardware, open source and so. Plenty of emulators. Enjoy yourself.
I don't see Turbo Prolog anywhere. Nor Turbo Pascal.
It's the Turbo line without the Turbo products.
Is it yet-another-PR-stunt-baby?
Reading the article doesn't help that much. It's a bunch of nothing and it resumes to a PR stunt. Did he said anything relevant? I don't think so. He's rather trying to say "cool down, we're under control" whereas many are just unhappy about how E3 turns out.
Besides, how can we trust companies to gather together and have a consensus to everyone's advantage? What benefits big corporations such as EA games will gain to let small developer in? There are so many questions and ignorance may fill the void but stupidity will let other bad guys fill the void in their way too.
With the various world trade agreements, I care less and less about other countries. If it's not outsourcing, it's them coming to us. We should begin to care about our own economy and fix it than other's one. We have our own problems, our own jobless, underpaid, overworked, etc.
bla bla bla - in French
Indeed, sad story.
It's not just about Australia anyway. All around the globe companies try to overpass their rights and tighten their customers in any way they can.
It's not just about piracy, it's about the perverse control they want to have. And they send us the bill, because each time a new technology comes out, with protection system, they make you pay for the R&D of the unwanted proctection system. At some extend, they have the right to protect themself.. but it's being rat to send the bill afterward.
If it's not DRM, it's DMCA, patends, copyrights, etc. When will the customer, or the simple tax contributor, will prevail?
At this rate, someday, computer will be considered as a tool to breach copyrights and patents and, therefore, will be declared illegal. Isn't it getting worse every day?
Actually, you've got it right! http://www.spyanotherday.com/
There are massive destruction weapons in Irak...
It feels like someone is trying to find an excuse to go on war with China.
I am not anti-american. I have friends and customers in USA. But I guess it's time to have a wake-up call, my friends. Anyway, if it's not war, it's outsourcing.. tough luck.
Nobody has an opinion on this? Freaking! Microsoft is around Sun. Both are pushing DRM in their way. I would not be surprised that OpenDRM is just a tactic to introduce DRM smoothly to the market. Honestly, on the user side, I don't think there are many DRM fans.
It's not explicity written in the article that the money will go against spammers. Instead, it is said about crime. We can only suppose computer crimes. It's much larger than spamming and one might believe it's just a PR stunt where they will simply use 5$ million dollars to fight against people who "illegaly" obtain Windows Vista, maybe?
This question is not a bit surprising considering people with multi-platforms and multi-languages skills are unlikely to be welcome by companies.
Since the begining of my career, 10 years ago, I have been writing multi-platforms softwares and doing large ports. Though it is a feat in itself, I usually hide this fact to employers because they tend to think as follow: "if someone spends time with other operating systems and/or programming languages, then she/he will spend less time with our usual target platform and language. Therefore, she/he is less qualified."
As far as I know, it is untrue statement and porting experience brings a developer to develop higher quality softwares. Porting tends to make your code stronger as a better quality and more stable is a direct result.
There are few specialized people and companies, just like me, but that's about it. Besides, OSS community tends to have better porting knowledge than others - even though many main actors don't port themselves, they have to correctly integrate ports from other people.
Just few thoughts for you guys..
I believe that everyone is a competitor to Microsoft anyway. They're everywhere.
You brought interesting matter and I was following until you name the sport cars example.
People buy red sport cars because they want to be flashy and get the attention (I'm sure you agree on this). But it nonetheless has some drawbacks - just see how much tickets you get when you have a red and then a green sport car.
The point is, rather, that the author goes a little extreme in his conclusions.
This particular point, number 10, also shocked me at first but then I've realized that the author has the only purpose to shred lights over some bad practices and extremes are a good way to bring attentions.
However, this raise another point : extreme examples are not arguments nor necessarily valid by their nature. It's bring attentions just as much as red and green would. Therefore, isn't this author uses the same technique he despises in order to make us overlook his point of view?
I've eagerly read this interview but as I've devoured the words it seemed to me Mr. Kircaali was becoming aggressive in his answers. Up to a point where he finally complained about his media company being DoSsed. He did put emphasis on the fact they've had experienced the biggest cyber attack in history of any media company (which, I would like to remind you, sounds like SCO words in the past).
This raised a question in my mind - what this interview was for? He did not seem to really care about the case nor he did not really excuse himself to have allowed O'Gara's article being publish.
The questions were repetitive and they never got where the reporter wanted the interview to go. Kircaali has been evasive in his answers about the topic of interest (PJ, Groklaw, O'Gara's work, etc). He was nonethelesse quite exhaustive on his report of being attacked and threatening emails sent to his customers.
It just leaves me on the feeling he is upset because he's losing a great deal of money. Someone should remind him that he decided to publish O'Gara's article.