Also, INTP here *grin*... does that make 5 on all slashdot??? Also Jack of all Trades....
"Striving for Mastering" is not same as Mastery." Its not being satisified with the "first glance" simple, dumbed down, rounded down take on something.. Just about anyone else learns by over-simplifying ( which seems faster ) then learning all the special cases and conditions, and gotchas, by messing it up...aka "school of hard-knocks" If your like me to don't dumb it down... you struggle w/it until you "grok" it. Thoroughness. And as a side-effect, you've probably noticed by now that your "probablies" are better than the other guys "damn sures." When I say "I know I'm right" it means I have the proof ready... any other type likely means "I feel really confident." IMO INTP's just seem like "jacks of all trades" to others because we are so precise about just how sure about something" and are aways aware of HOW we KNOW what we know... and how well we know it... to anyone else it seems like "lack of confidence" and for any other type it probably is. But not for us, since not only do we, seemly, recognize contradictions across time and space, but also:Unknown Unkowns" as well.... Anyway this "jack" has trumped as few masters from time to times. We just have more breadth.. because we learn broader... like breadth first first depth first traversal.. In the course of finding what started looking for.. I visited more nodes... so I walk away being aware of more.... Ends up being in cache later...
Hey, I've got that. You can get it for PS1 on Atari Anniverisary Edition Redux... Also, maybe 5 years earlier.. Wizard of WOR.. you can play co-op or against each other , and change your mind at any time.. Its a Midway game.. that and GORF was one of the first games to speak...
Billcraft? Xbillcraft? Take Xbill and spin it into a RTS game... drones build computers...warrior types fight to install their OS's on computers Players could be Monopolistic Software Developers: they'd look really nerdy with pocket protectors..., or OSS developers... , or evil cracker-hackers who'd actually destroy the computers... or maybe make that group be Senators.. led by Orin Hatch, not sure yet...
Actually, a total clone seems a little lame... even the UI? why bother unless your going to add improvements... One thing I'd like is an option to change keyboard short cuts to match position on number pad... It seems so natural... I have to wonder if Blizzard just backed away from doing it that way... menu based control is a 3x3 grid in the right lower corner... how about matching 7 8 9 4 5 6 1 2 3 to what ever option is the corresponding square... I think it would make for a quicker inteface, and fair better in the heat of combat
If he had imediately shot his computer on hearing this, I'd have been impressed with his integrity. We will now probably see an exemption for Congress, as usual.
Really this is just an example of what we are seeing more and more again, is that IP is really only for big business, the right is simply not recognized for individuals, or smal l businesses. Hatch should do more than comply, he should set the example, and send the developer restitution... If anyone needs congressional help to enforce their IP its the small developers who simply cannot afford to sue, big lawyers == big overhead..., but I guess that would upset the 'status quo'.
Literally to destroy means to make unrepairable... If a house is destroyed in a hurricane, you can't fix it, you have to build a new one... if you could you're exagerating.. NOT just being pendantic here, consider that if you would use software to recover whats on the drive, then its not really destroyed, since its still fixable... ditto with restoring from backups... So if it was technically possible... I don't know maybe a hack that exploited a hardware bug, and convinced the fans to powerdown, and then maybe something that could force a physical head crash....... Anyway, if the the computer is actually, literally destroyed... then theRIAA,or hackers, for that matter, can destroy the machine and simply claim that it had their copyrightable materials on it... since the proof of the crime would be destroyed as the computer is destroyed... really anyone could hack anyone and then make that claim... And since you're hack does a security wipe of the harddrive (doesn't it) they'd never be able to prove it/wasn't/ there.. after a security wipe, they'd only, maybe, be able to prove if it was there, SO its a total hacker loophole. So now anyone can Hack with Impunity thanks to Senator Hatch.
Yeah, the no reason why you can't make a copy gpl it, license it to the world under GPL, keep orginal and later sell it... Like seperate deals for the book and movie. Confusion occurs when people confuse GPL and FSF, where FSF wants you to assign copyright to them... I think the Alladin Public License isnt' really any different from GPL except that isnt called GPL so the confusion doesn't apply.. Ghostscript is under Alladin Public License.. but they sell code thats goes into printer drivers. My point is along as your are the owner you can distribute under any terms you like, it seems like like its a misunderstanding that FSF lets lie, but I think its really a main part of the anti-GPL propaganda machine. I
I agree. I'd even go so far to say as IE is better on the mac, better than on the pc. At least, on the pc it always seems to be trailing in UI changes, looking still very, much like the venerable mosaic, but on the mac IE almost seemed dare I say "innovative". In fact, on every other platform I'd use netscape, or mozilla, but I've kept using IE on this imac, despite some bias against M$... If anything they should start making products w/o peeking at O.S source code it should improve their quality.
What they may really be doing is moving some talented app development people away from mac, to focus on windows, perhaps they stuck around just to make sure there was a non-netscape browser on mac....
check winzip's about box, winzip is derived from infozip's zip library, and infozip is one of the few FSF progs that is not GPL but RMS has signed off on, as ok. Its license is more BSD like.
Those CRC's aren't good enough. Besides, if I just drop a bad ethernet packet... what's going to resend it? I thought resend's are only on collision... but my ethernet knowledge is rusty...
I remember trying modem dn progs with no-error correction, since modems do error-correction, right? Well if you'r downloading a zip... One bad 1k block can make it useless.. and it happened quite a lot... And the modem prog didn't detect it.... Boy, that would suck if I was moving files and had just deleted the source... Real duplicate effort is ftp over tcp..... but then again not everyone's tcp stack is that good...
The kermits included in comm progs didn't keepup, thats why they only distribute kermit in their own comm prog (kermit) now. Using ckermit, back in '98 I could get zmodem speeds, but more robust... zmodem needs 8bit connects... kermit can adapt to just about any enviroment.... Now ckermit ships with fast defaults, prior it shipped with setting that could work in almost any wierd setup..... Also has telnet, ftp, has ssh now too as well. Also supports tcp connections... ie one does set host * 3333 and otherwise does telnet hostname 3333 , and yeah ssh can forward that... I'd use just to get resumeable downloads over ssh. Basically kermit is multiple procotols.... But, if I'm talking to a bbs, I'd use zmodem since most bbs don't use current kermits.... In some conditions zmodem's sliding windows could slow things down... if the line was just noisy enough... but not too noisy.... it would keep throtlling up, and falling back, and throtlling up, and falling back... and end up taking longer because of the overhead.
Man that's harsh... The guy has a point. They spend thousands to millions of dollars to get access to lobby their wants to Congress.. And then reduce that to $1? Of course, now I can buy in as well... but its a big win for them, as long as they can make sure I can't distribute, they can shut me out... Does Disney deliberately limit availablity of their classics to keep the price the consumer is willing to buy up? OR is it because, otherwise, it would be painfully obvious how much their current slock plainly sucks, when compared to the works of art that Uncle Walt produced? People are missing the point... Computers and internet could allow artists -- you know those guys who actually make the stuff? -- to distribute themselves... They talk about piracy, but their real fear is loss of control, if distribution becomes meaninglessly trivial, then for the cost of a CEO's salary, people could make, produce, and distribute w/o needing to go to them. This scares the shit of them, because their business model could go the way of the dinosaur.. or worse , just not support their high salaries or perks. And, rather than earn their pay by actually adapting... they instead attack the technology while its in its infancy, make it illegal, then they can maintain control... Piracy happens, but its not their real fear, technology making them, and their business model obsolete is.
Protect their rights and mine, but if their business model can't adapt then they/should/ fail. Congress should not be in the business of keeping bad business in business.
No way. Unless you intend to kill GPL or free software in general. The little guy simply can't afford to register every 10 line program just to protect his interests. You can already do collections, infact a collection of PD material, can be copyrighted as a "whole" -- little known but true, so one could 'copy the PD material individually from it -- once its PD it is public domain, but not the whole. Also, it is why magazine can be wholly composed of articles that they don't own, and still have a copyright. Anyway 2 years is way to little... maybe if it was patents..... The only problem I have with long duration copyrights is when new-owners have no interest in distribution of the work, making it effectively censored with no legal means for the consumer to aquire them. For example, the only musical I ever liked was "Scrooge", video is no-longer distributed, despite my efforts, there is no legal way for me to obtain it, so I don't have it... with all the mergers I believe this will happen more and more... Don't buy that old thing you liked, buy this new , wholly derivate piece of crap instead..... Just so everyone knows the version I'm talking about has Albert Finney as Scrooge and Alec Guiness as Marley... Its the only musical I like, because it's the only one where I can believe anyone would feel like actually bursting into song..... Anyhow doesn't matter if I'd pay 50or60$ for it, they don't distribute it, so there's no way to buy it.
I wonder if they did 24 burn in, or some other operational testing in rooms with no AC and 90%relative humidity ( or more). *laugh* What if it's mold.. growing on the disks... spreading sector by sector... Does your k-rad case mod, include a hygrometer?.. maybe it should....
We use the metric system everyday. Ever buy a 2 liter of coke? Most industries use metric when it makes sense to do so. The miltary uses metric, at least they talk about 'klicks", measure guns in mm, subs talk about depth in meters, etc.
Going _whole_hog_ metric means replacing the gallon of milk, or the cup, or the 8x5, or the 2x4 with "metric nears"; changing a lot of stuff, just to get a metric wholenumber... Drive 55 becomes what? Somecrap with a decimal... If you want the metric, look on the box,it's probably there.. in fact, doesn't it have to be? But, why bother? A lot of expense for the sake of conformity.. You know, "a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds."
Anyway, I'd rather use Fahrenheit for discussions about "room temperature", otherwise things would sound hopelessly pendantic: people arguing about five nineth's of a degree.. I wouldn't be surprised if manufacturers just decided to screw people, and save some bucks on less precise thermostats, since +/- 1 degree C isn't as precise as +/- 1 degree F...
Actually, to be on topic, I should note our system was changed to be based on that reference kg. -- that a pound was redefined to based on the kg -- by definition, so this affects us, as well. Perhaps, even by 1 of the groups you cite... I never should have sold back my history books....
Gee, couldn't Germany just employ a couple dozen programmers and have them make any improvements that were necessary? If they are necessary? Is ever wise to be that dependent on anyone? I'd say any goverment wants multipler suppliers for anything mission critical, and if not they want it themselves, wars have have started over supply problems... *laugh* World War III starts when Europe invades Redmond to ensure security updates are done in a timely manner *** Seriously, long before there was and independent software industry, companies that used computers, wrote their own software.. sometimes their app ran on the baremetal, meaning they didn't have an OS, sometimes they made a system so big it was basically its own OS.... Anyway, opensource puts power in company and goverment computing departments, and frees them from being dependent on only 1 company for solutions.
Will it to be uptodate software? If so it's generous. If it's just old cd's that didn't sellout, and if it's w/o license documentation, it's just another hassle. Writing off cd's that didn't sell is probably a little better for them than just dumping them. Oh yeah, and I have received free and 'very dated' M$ software from Microsoft w/o any license documents. It was their visual java thing, and it was hopelessly out of date.
Hmm close... Really, you could only reverse-engineer to get the spec, hand that spec to another programmer who imps new software.. Otherwise they'd assume its a derivative work, and be open to lawsuit... To me, reverse-engineer has 3 main legitimate reasons: 1. Is the program or app really a non-obvious trojan or spyware? Really important for anyone with secret information like U.S gov or corporations where industrial espionage is a factor.... 2. Where is the source of the error or bug? If your company is getting software from more than one contractors, how do you know which one? A mixture of cockiness and laziness on their part might have everyone pointing the finger at everyone else... With no solution... It helps to know where to focus attention... And if the orginial provider can't respond in time to meet your deadline, perhaps a tool like a decompiler can help your team devise a workaround... 3. Porting your system to new hardware, and having problems with a few components, maybe the orginal provider is gone, doesn't have the skill, or perhaps swallowed up by someone bigger who's business model doesn't jibe with supporting you....
Of course, if you have a right to the source to the product, all this becomes academic... unless its a compiler bug...
As long corporations can figure out when it's cheaper to just go-ahead and let a few people die, some will. There needs to be a 3 strikes your company is dissolved law. No more company, all assets sold, stockholders get whats left over, after all debts payed (as usual). Corporate officers and board members prohibited from serving in either capacity in any corporation for a period of at least 2 years. Don't worry if they don't actually have enough cash to cover that, they can always get real jobs...
At one point in our history, it actually required an act of Congress to incorporate, it isn't a right its more like a drivers license, the only thing Congress would need to do is care.
I'm not sure about "tenure's" original intent being to protect "non-conformists". Who gets tenure is decided by the institution itself so, one might think, if someone wanted tenure they might want to conform, inorder to get tenure in the first place... Of course, they'd be conforming to the microcosm of the Univeristy itself.
I think the intent is to protect the genius who's new theory just rubbed out the old theory. People tend to get attached to ideas they believe in, so to keep themselves from firing the next Einstein in an emotional hissy fit, they have tenure. Mainly to protect themselve, from themselves, from the embarassment. I mean if they the fire the guy for being a 'kook' and then their rival univeristy picks him up, and he completes his research there -- performs the 'historic' experiment there, then they'd look like a bunch of dolts, and missed out on an opportunity to suck up all that presitige....
Actually, tenure is more like ordainment, you become part the the 'establishment', the clergy of acadamia,if you will. And it seems that both institutions, really don't want to get rid of anyone, since it would smee like evidence that they messed up when they 'ordained' them in the first place. Cognitivedissisance is bliss, apparently.
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It's a qualified statement. He's not talking about any old software, but "software designed to fully utilize state-of-the-art hardware". Meaning using the hardware to 100% of its capabilities.... This ties in with enterprise computing later... Seriously, look at any new release of a software product, it will probably claim to now support a new hardware tech. A 486 was better than a 386, but the percent to which it was depended on whether you recompiled the software to reap all the benefits. Ditto with 486 to 586...ditto with everything really... (Of course I can only recompile the software to take advantage, because someone else did that work in the compiler to make it that easy.) Thats just processors, now include any and all harddrives, graphics cards, 3d accelerators, modems, networks adapters, etc, support all their feautures and get 100% of the performance they provide from all of them, and get it right without bugs or security holes.... Perhaps, he was too succint.
Anyway, typically new hardware means some improvement to old software, but the/qouted/ improvement when running with software the supports the new tech.
Also, he's talking about Unix, which is OS which is what provides the OSI to the libraries in the first place. I think maybe you missed it because you were grinding that "use some library" axe that app developers like to grind....
I doubt there's an under the table deal comany per company. It's probably more subtle than that. Considering how much power and influence M$ has, praise from someone high inside of M$, a simple phrase like "We could use someone like you," could have much impact. Judiciously used, of course, everything implicit, not real 'deals' per se, just heap on praise after a SCO officer, or other influential employee says something that M$ wants to promote. So, instead of a company deal, key employees think that they will be able to 'trade up' and work somewhere better (in their opinion), as long as they do what M$ likes.
Anyone notice how much CEO's job hop? Anyone notice how many companies were destroyed in the tech bubble, when some CEO clearly wanted,so badly, to be part of the tech bubble, that he would completely destroy the company in attempt to make it something else, something hipper? Then cashout.... company in ashes as he moves on to "bigger and better things".
Besides, if M$ wanted them why haven't they bought them already? No, M$ want's their to be O.S. alternatives. just so their lawyers we will be able to claim they aren't a monoply. Ideally , those alternatives would be fragmented, impotent, and unable to resist M$ domiance, but still there as/token/ alternatives...
Totally. In doom some stupid scientist opened up an interdimension doorway to hell and hell and everyone there decides to move in -- the badguys are obviously purely evil by definition. Never really got into duke3d, while I played the shareware a few times , I never got the enemies... I remember saying "that guy looks like Panthro, should we really be fighting the Thundercats? Maybe its all a big misunderstanding..";-]
Anyway, some stupid " I type idkfa every 10 seconds" lamer who joined up would probably be for a rude awakening and get dishonorably discharged. Or at least I hope so...
Actually,regarding games like doom and real world violence, I'd like to see a study were they check to see if the guys who only play 3d-shooters in god-mode are more prone to violence, vs guys who beat the level only by struggling through and dieing 20 times before. Not that, I'm morally opposed to to cheating at videogames, it's just, that in general, I figure it's better to go-ahead and masturbate rather than turning everythingelse into masturbation.
I haven't tried the game yet, but I hope it's "more indoctrination == lamer filter", more than " indoctrination == brainwashing" .
*grin* Go-ahead and fake-it, in fact, do it so much when yours truly calls you at 3am because I'm at my desk in my damn cube, banging out code, you won't have a clue , because I just woke you up.... won't remember what to lie about and completly give yourself away... Of course it won't dawn on me until after I'm done, and I'm walking out to my car, and then have to stifle myself, because I don't want the night watchmen to think I'm on something, but then, once safely in my car I bust out, and laugh all the way to the highway, chuckle some more, then bust out laughing again when I realize the irony that I wouldn't have been working late if I my day hadn't been broken up with long meaningless meetings, that it wouldn't have taken to 8pm just to get in the grove, bang it out and solve it. Then, I realize that you lied on your resume, really can't even code hello-world, and the meetings are just a way to seem busy to the VP and justify why you aren't doing any development work, unlike the guy you replaced..... And at that point I realize you're irrevelant....
Not you, of course, twitter. But we're talking about the same guy, basically, the same type.. Actually, I f often ound after hours was the way to escape from the make-work he'd give , so he'd seem to be doing something.
For years, Historian noted that the American Revolution was different, unlike The French Revolution, we didn't throw useful things like calenders, systems of measurments, or indiscrimitantly kill people. Historians used to consider it the 'civilized revolution'. Well, it turns out history was just late by some 227 years and now we're just as bad as the French.... were. Oh yeah, before you check my math, you should know that I was just awarded a patent for any method of computing how many years has past since the start of the American Revolution... Thats right I've patented: (current year) -1776.
Patenting mathematics, and business methods will do more to destroy capitalism than any communist nuke. Note that it's capitalism not propertism. Competition and the technological/and/ encomical improvements that go along with will decline. Less capital will be invested, because the will only be 1 pony in each race.
Now, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit should be saying" We have become death, destroyer of worlds."
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Also, INTP here *grin*... does that make 5 on all slashdot??? ... and how well we know it... to anyone else it seems like "lack of confidence" and for any other :Unknown Unkowns" as well. ...
Also Jack of all Trades....
"Striving for Mastering" is not same as Mastery." Its not being satisified with the "first glance" simple, dumbed down, rounded down take on something.. Just about anyone else learns by over-simplifying ( which seems faster ) then learning all the special cases and conditions, and gotchas, by messing it up...aka "school of hard-knocks" If your like me to don't dumb it down... you struggle w/it until you "grok" it.
Thoroughness.
And as a side-effect, you've probably noticed by now that your "probablies" are better
than the other guys "damn sures." When I say "I know I'm right" it means I have the proof ready... any other type likely means "I feel really confident." IMO INTP's just
seem like "jacks of all trades" to others because we are so precise about just how sure
about something" and are aways aware of HOW we KNOW what we know
type it probably is. But not for us, since not only do we, seemly, recognize contradictions across time and space, but also
Anyway this "jack" has trumped as few masters from time to times. We just have more breadth.. because we learn broader... like breadth first first depth first traversal..
In the course of finding what started looking for.. I visited more nodes... so I walk away
being aware of more.... Ends up being in cache later...
Hey, I've got that. You can get it for PS1 on Atari Anniverisary Edition Redux...
Also, maybe 5 years earlier.. Wizard of WOR.. you can play co-op or against each other , and change your mind at any time.. Its a Midway game.. that and GORF was one of the first games to speak...
Billcraft? Xbillcraft? Take Xbill and spin it into a RTS game...
drones build computers...warrior types fight to install their OS's on computers
Players could be Monopolistic Software Developers: they'd look really nerdy with pocket protectors..., or OSS developers... , or evil cracker-hackers who'd actually destroy the computers... or maybe make that group be Senators.. led by Orin Hatch, not sure yet...
Actually, a total clone seems a little lame... even the UI? why bother unless your going to add improvements... One thing I'd like is an option to change keyboard short cuts
to match position on number pad... It seems so natural... I have to wonder if Blizzard just backed away from doing it that way... menu based control is a 3x3 grid in the right
lower corner... how about matching
7 8 9
4 5 6
1 2 3 to what ever option is the corresponding square... I think it would make for a quicker inteface, and fair better in the heat of combat
If he had imediately shot his computer on hearing this, I'd have been impressed with his integrity. We will now probably see an exemption for Congress, as usual.
Really this is just an example of what we are seeing more and more again, is that IP is really only for big business, the right is simply not recognized for individuals, or smal l businesses. Hatch should do more than comply, he should set the example, and send the developer restitution... If anyone needs congressional help to enforce their IP its the small developers who simply cannot afford to sue, big lawyers == big overhead..., but
I guess that would upset the 'status quo'.
Literally to destroy means to make unrepairable... If a house is destroyed in a hurricane, you can't fix it, you have to build a new one... if you could you're exagerating.. ... Anyway, if the the computer is actually, literally destroyed... then theRIAA ,or hackers, for that matter, can destroy the machine and simply claim that it had their copyrightable materials on it... since the proof of the crime would be destroyed as the computer is destroyed... really anyone could hack anyone and then make that claim... And since you're hack does a security wipe of the harddrive (doesn't it) they'd never be able to prove it /wasn't/ there.. after a security wipe, they'd only, maybe, be able to prove if it was there, SO its a total hacker loophole.
NOT just being pendantic here, consider that if you would use software to recover whats on the drive, then its not really destroyed, since its still fixable... ditto with restoring from backups... So if it was technically possible... I don't know maybe a hack that exploited
a hardware bug, and convinced the fans to powerdown, and then maybe something that
could force a physical head crash....
So now anyone can Hack with Impunity thanks to Senator Hatch.
Yeah, the no reason why you can't make a copy gpl it, license it to the world under GPL,
keep orginal and later sell it... Like seperate deals for the book and movie.
Confusion occurs when people confuse GPL and FSF, where FSF wants you to assign copyright to them...
I think the Alladin Public License isnt' really any different from GPL
except that isnt called GPL so the confusion doesn't apply.. Ghostscript is
under Alladin Public License.. but they sell code thats goes into printer drivers.
My point is along as your are the owner you can distribute under any terms you like,
it seems like like its a misunderstanding that FSF lets lie, but I think its really a main
part of the anti-GPL propaganda machine. I
I agree. I'd even go so far to say as IE is better on the mac, better than on the pc.
At least, on the pc it always seems to be trailing in UI changes, looking still very, much like the venerable mosaic, but on the mac IE almost seemed dare I say "innovative".
In fact, on every other platform I'd use netscape, or mozilla, but I've kept using IE on this imac, despite some bias against M$... If anything they should start making products w/o peeking at O.S source code it should improve their quality.
What they may really be doing is moving some talented app development people away
from mac, to focus on windows, perhaps they stuck around just to make sure there was a non-netscape browser on mac....
check winzip's about box, winzip is derived from infozip's zip library,
and infozip is one of the few FSF progs that is not GPL but RMS has signed off on, as ok. Its license is more BSD like.
Those CRC's aren't good enough. Besides, if I just drop a bad ethernet packet...
what's going to resend it? I thought resend's are only on collision... but my ethernet knowledge is rusty...
I remember trying modem dn progs with no-error correction, since modems do error-correction, right? Well if you'r downloading a zip... One bad 1k
block can make it useless.. and it happened quite a lot... And the modem prog didn't detect it.... Boy, that would suck if I was moving files and had just deleted the
source...
Real duplicate effort is ftp over tcp..... but then again not everyone's tcp stack is that good...
The kermits included in comm progs didn't keepup, thats why they only distribute
kermit in their own comm prog (kermit) now. Using ckermit, back in '98 I could get zmodem speeds, but more robust... zmodem needs 8bit connects... kermit can adapt to just about any enviroment.... Now ckermit ships with fast defaults, prior it shipped with setting that could work in almost any wierd setup..... Also has telnet, ftp, has ssh now too as well. Also supports tcp connections... ie one does set host * 3333 and otherwise
does telnet hostname 3333 , and yeah ssh can forward that... I'd use just to get resumeable downloads over ssh. Basically kermit is multiple procotols....
But, if I'm talking to a bbs, I'd use zmodem since most bbs don't use current kermits....
In some conditions zmodem's sliding windows could slow things down... if the line was
just noisy enough... but not too noisy.... it would keep throtlling up, and falling back,
and throtlling up, and falling back... and end up taking longer because of the overhead.
Really one should include all definitions...
Your's is an example of my personal favorite" Hacker: anyone who has more tech skills than his boss... "
Man that's harsh...
/should/ fail. Congress should not be in the business of keeping bad business in business.
The guy has a point. They spend thousands to millions of dollars to get access to lobby their wants to Congress.. And then reduce that to $1? Of course, now I can buy in as well... but its a big win for them, as long as they can make sure I can't distribute, they can shut me out...
Does Disney deliberately limit availablity of their classics to keep the price the consumer is willing to buy up? OR is it because, otherwise, it would be painfully obvious how much their current slock plainly sucks, when compared to the works of art that Uncle Walt produced?
People are missing the point... Computers and internet could allow artists -- you know those guys who actually make the stuff? -- to distribute themselves... They talk about piracy, but their real fear is loss of control, if distribution becomes meaninglessly trivial, then for the cost of a CEO's salary, people could make, produce, and distribute w/o needing to go to them.
This scares the shit of them, because their business model could go the way of the dinosaur.. or worse , just not support their high salaries or perks. And, rather than earn their pay by actually adapting... they instead attack the technology while its in its infancy, make it illegal, then they can maintain control... Piracy happens, but its not their real fear, technology making them, and their business model obsolete is.
Protect their rights and mine, but if their business model can't adapt then they
No way. Unless you intend to kill GPL or free software in general.
The little guy simply can't afford to register every 10 line program just to protect his interests. You can already do collections, infact a collection of PD material, can be copyrighted as a "whole" -- little known but true, so one could 'copy the PD material individually from it -- once its PD it is public domain, but not the whole.
Also, it is why magazine can be wholly composed of articles that they don't own, and still have a copyright.
Anyway 2 years is way to little... maybe if it was patents.....
The only problem I have with long duration copyrights is when new-owners have no interest in distribution of the work, making it effectively censored with no legal means for the consumer to aquire them.
For example, the only musical I ever liked was "Scrooge", video is no-longer distributed,
despite my efforts, there is no legal way for me to obtain it, so I don't have it... with all the mergers I believe this will happen more and more... Don't buy that old thing you liked, buy this new , wholly derivate piece of crap instead..... Just so everyone knows the version I'm talking about has Albert Finney as Scrooge and Alec Guiness as Marley...
Its the only musical I like, because it's the only one where I can believe anyone would feel like actually bursting into song..... Anyhow doesn't matter if I'd pay 50or60$ for it, they don't distribute it, so there's no way to buy it.
I wonder if they did 24 burn in, or some other operational testing in rooms with no AC and 90%relative humidity ( or more).
*laugh* What if it's mold.. growing on the disks... spreading sector by sector...
Does your k-rad case mod, include a hygrometer?.. maybe it should....
We use the metric system everyday. Ever buy a 2 liter of coke? Most industries use metric when it makes sense to do so. The miltary uses metric, at least they talk about 'klicks", measure guns in mm, subs talk about depth in meters, etc.
,it's probably there.. in fact, doesn't it have to be? But, why bother? A lot of expense for the sake of conformity.. You know, "a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds."
Going _whole_hog_ metric means replacing the gallon of milk, or the cup, or the 8x5, or the 2x4 with "metric nears"; changing a lot of stuff, just to get a metric wholenumber...
Drive 55 becomes what? Somecrap with a decimal... If you want the metric, look on the box
Anyway, I'd rather use Fahrenheit for discussions about "room temperature", otherwise things would sound hopelessly pendantic: people arguing about five nineth's of a degree.. I wouldn't be surprised if manufacturers just decided to screw people, and save some bucks on less precise thermostats, since +/- 1 degree C isn't as precise as +/- 1 degree F...
Actually, to be on topic, I should note our system was changed to be based on that reference kg. -- that a pound was redefined to based on the kg -- by definition, so this affects us, as well. Perhaps, even by 1 of the groups you cite... I never should have sold back my history books....
Gee, couldn't Germany just employ a couple dozen programmers and have them make any improvements that were necessary? If they are necessary? Is ever wise to be that dependent on anyone? I'd say any goverment wants multipler suppliers for anything mission critical, and if not they want it themselves, wars have have started over supply problems...
*laugh* World War III starts when Europe invades Redmond to ensure security updates are done in a timely manner ***
Seriously, long before there was and independent software industry, companies that used computers, wrote their own software.. sometimes their app ran on the baremetal, meaning they didn't have an OS, sometimes they made a system so big it was basically its own OS....
Anyway, opensource puts power in company and goverment computing departments,
and frees them from being dependent on only 1 company for solutions.
Will it to be uptodate software? If so it's generous. If it's just old cd's that didn't sellout,
and if it's w/o license documentation, it's just another hassle.
Writing off cd's that didn't sell is probably a little better for them than just dumping them.
Oh yeah, and I have received free and 'very dated' M$ software from Microsoft w/o any license documents. It was their visual java thing, and it was hopelessly out of date.
Hmm close... Really, you could only reverse-engineer to get the spec, hand that spec to another programmer who imps new software.. Otherwise they'd assume its a derivative work, and be open to lawsuit... To me, reverse-engineer has 3 main legitimate reasons:
1. Is the program or app really a non-obvious trojan or spyware? Really important for anyone with secret information like U.S gov or corporations where industrial espionage is a factor....
2. Where is the source of the error or bug? If your company is getting software from more than one contractors, how do you know which one? A mixture of cockiness and laziness on their part might have everyone pointing the finger at everyone else... With no solution... It helps to know where to focus attention... And if the orginial provider can't respond in time to meet your deadline, perhaps a tool like a decompiler can help your team devise a workaround...
3. Porting your system to new hardware, and having problems with a few components, maybe the orginal provider is gone, doesn't have the skill, or perhaps swallowed up by someone bigger who's business model doesn't jibe with supporting you....
Of course, if you have a right to the source to the product, all this becomes academic...
unless its a compiler bug...
As long corporations can figure out when it's cheaper to just go-ahead and let a few people die, some will. There needs to be a 3 strikes your company is dissolved law.
No more company, all assets sold, stockholders get whats left over, after all debts payed (as usual). Corporate officers and board members prohibited from serving in either capacity in any corporation for a period of at least 2 years. Don't worry if they don't actually have enough cash to cover that, they can always get real jobs...
At one point in our history, it actually required an act of Congress to incorporate, it isn't a right its more like a drivers license, the only thing Congress would need to do is care.
I'm not sure about "tenure's" original intent being to protect "non-conformists".
,if you will. And it seems that both institutions, really don't want to get rid of anyone, since it would smee like evidence that they messed up when they 'ordained' them in the first place. Cognitivedissisance is bliss, apparently.
Who gets tenure is decided by the institution itself so, one might think, if someone wanted tenure they might want to conform, inorder to get tenure in the first place... Of course, they'd be conforming to the microcosm of the Univeristy itself.
I think the intent is to protect the genius who's new theory just rubbed out the old theory.
People tend to get attached to ideas they believe in, so to keep themselves from firing the next Einstein in an emotional hissy fit, they have tenure. Mainly to protect themselve, from themselves, from the embarassment. I mean if they the fire the guy
for being a 'kook' and then their rival univeristy picks him up, and he completes his research there -- performs the 'historic' experiment there, then they'd look like a bunch of dolts, and missed out on an opportunity to suck up all that presitige....
Actually, tenure is more like ordainment, you become part the the 'establishment', the clergy of acadamia
It's a qualified statement. He's not talking about any old software, but "software designed to fully utilize state-of-the-art hardware". Meaning using the hardware to 100% of its capabilities.... This ties in with enterprise computing later...
/qouted/ improvement when running with software the supports the new tech.
Seriously, look at any new release of a software product, it will probably claim to now support a new hardware tech. A 486 was better than a 386, but the percent to which it was depended on whether you recompiled the software to reap all the benefits. Ditto with 486 to 586...ditto with everything really... (Of course I can only recompile the software to take advantage, because someone else did that work in the compiler to make it that easy.) Thats just processors, now include any and all harddrives, graphics cards, 3d accelerators, modems, networks adapters, etc, support all their feautures and get 100% of the performance they provide from all of them, and get it right without bugs or security holes.... Perhaps, he was too succint.
Anyway, typically new hardware means some improvement to old software, but the
Also, he's talking about Unix, which is OS which is what provides the OSI to the libraries in the first place. I think maybe you missed it because you were grinding that "use some library" axe that app developers like to grind....
I doubt there's an under the table deal comany per company. It's probably more
,so badly, to
/token/ alternatives...
subtle than that. Considering how much power and influence M$ has,
praise from someone high inside of M$, a simple phrase like "We could use someone like you," could have much impact. Judiciously used, of course,
everything implicit, not real 'deals' per se, just heap on praise after a SCO officer, or other influential employee says something that M$ wants to promote. So, instead
of a company deal, key employees think that they will be able to 'trade up' and
work somewhere better (in their opinion), as long as they do what M$ likes.
Anyone notice how much CEO's job hop? Anyone notice how many companies
were destroyed in the tech bubble, when some CEO clearly wanted
be part of the tech bubble, that he would completely destroy the company
in attempt to make it something else, something hipper? Then cashout....
company in ashes as he moves on to "bigger and better things".
Besides, if M$ wanted them why haven't they bought them already? No, M$ want's their to be O.S. alternatives. just so their lawyers we will be able to claim they aren't a monoply. Ideally , those alternatives would be fragmented, impotent, and unable to resist M$ domiance, but still there as
"Ideally for them," I should say.
Totally. In doom some stupid scientist opened up an interdimension doorway to hell and hell and everyone there decides to move in -- the badguys are obviously purely evil by definition. Never really got into duke3d, while I played the shareware a few times , I never got the enemies... I remember saying "that guy looks like Panthro, should we really be fighting the Thundercats? Maybe its all a big misunderstanding.." ;-]
,regarding games like doom and real world violence, I'd like to
Anyway, some stupid " I type idkfa every 10 seconds" lamer who joined up would probably be for a rude awakening and get dishonorably discharged. Or at least I hope so...
Actually
see a study were they check to see if the guys who only play 3d-shooters
in god-mode are more prone to violence, vs guys who beat the level only by struggling through and dieing 20 times before. Not that, I'm morally opposed to
to cheating at videogames, it's just, that in general, I figure it's better to go-ahead and masturbate rather than turning everythingelse into masturbation.
I haven't tried the game yet, but I hope it's "more indoctrination == lamer filter", more than " indoctrination == brainwashing"
.
*grin* Go-ahead and fake-it, in fact, do it so much when yours truly calls you
at 3am because I'm at my desk in my damn cube, banging out code, you won't have a clue , because I just woke you up.... won't remember what to lie about
and completly give yourself away... Of course it won't dawn on me until after
I'm done, and I'm walking out to my car, and then have to stifle myself, because I don't want the night watchmen to think I'm on something, but then, once safely in my car I bust out, and laugh all the way to the highway, chuckle some more,
then bust out laughing again when I realize the irony that I wouldn't have been
working late if I my day hadn't been broken up with long meaningless meetings,
that it wouldn't have taken to 8pm just to get in the grove, bang it out and solve it.
Then, I realize that you lied on your resume, really can't even code hello-world, and the meetings are just a way to seem busy to the VP and justify why you aren't doing any development work, unlike the guy you replaced..... And at that point I realize you're irrevelant....
Not you, of course, twitter. But we're talking about the same guy, basically, the same type.. Actually, I f often ound after hours was the way to escape from the make-work he'd give , so he'd seem to be doing something.
For years, Historian noted that the American Revolution was different,
/and/ encomical improvements that go along with will decline. Less capital will be invested, because the will only be 1 pony in each race.
unlike The French Revolution, we didn't throw useful things like calenders, systems of measurments, or indiscrimitantly kill people. Historians used to consider
it the 'civilized revolution'. Well, it turns out history was just late by some 227 years
and now we're just as bad as the French.... were.
Oh yeah, before you check my math, you should know that I was just awarded
a patent for any method of computing how many years has past since the start of
the American Revolution... Thats right I've patented: (current year) -1776.
Patenting mathematics, and business methods will do more to destroy capitalism
than any communist nuke. Note that it's capitalism not propertism. Competition and the technological
Now, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit should be saying" We have become death, destroyer of worlds."